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Oncoming Storm
Penfield, NY, USA
Rookie Year
2013
Members
18
Mentors
8
Type
Community Team
Meeting Hours/Week
8
Approx. Budget
5000+ USD
Workspace
Other
Sponsorship Status
1 - 3 Sponsors
Drivetrain
Mecanum
Materials
Prefabricated Metal Parts, Custom Metal Parts, 3D-Printed Plastic, Prefabricated Carbon Fiber Parts, Custom Carbon Fiber Parts, Polycarbonate
Product Sources
REV Robotics, GoBILDA, AndyMark, Studica Robotics, SparkFun Electronics
Odometry
Custom Dead-Wheel, GoBILDA Pinpoint, SparkFun Laser Odometry (OTOS)
Sensors
Magnetic Limit Switch, Distance, Touch, Other, HuskyLens
Systems
Claw/Gripper, Winch System, Linear Slides
Programming Language
Java (OnBot or External IDE)
Development Environment
Android Studio
3rd-Party Tools
RoadRunner, Other, FTC Dashboard
Vision
Object Detection, AprilTag Localization, OpenCV
What is something that you think is unique about your robot this season? What about your robot do you think would make it stand out at competition?
We utliized on Rev motor to have 8 points of movement in our Climbing mechanism
What types of Outreach do you plan to do for this season? Which of those Outreach initiatives are you most proud of?
Music in the park for the the kids in town allowing them to drive our robot, Food drive at Rukus as welll as demo field. Clean up day where we cleaned up local familys yards and laid mulch. Rocherster Frenzy demo and presentation
Describe an element of your code which you think will be most advantageous to your performance over the season.
implentation of Roadrunner
What competitions will you be attending? Which of the ones that you listed are you looking forward to the most?
Home town Penfield event. Electric Mayhems, and Corning. We enjoy the friendships we have made along the way.
How will you be organizing your team at competitions?
Agenda for each meeting where goals are set and completed. Compeitions all students know there role before arriving and take ownership of it throught the day.
Describe a unique or noteworthy strategic device or element that you think would be useful for this game.
While we do not know the compeition this year. We will revisit this question after we have seen and stategized.
How would you describe your design process? How many options/strategies do you compare? How do you visualize your designs before building?
Our process starts after the second viewing of the reveal. We break out into groups based on parts of the robot we see and a group for strategy to identify the best scoring technic. After our intial stage we go into cardboard and spare part protytping. The base of the robot is identified first. CAD will be used to model the base so all substructures can bet fit to the robot as they are being built. Research of what has worked with our past robots as well as past world champions and if they can be applied in some way to this years competition.
Made with by Electric Mayhem Robotics and external contributors
Check out our code on GitHub
Contact Us: contact@ftcopenalliance.org
FIRST TECH CHALLENGE OPEN ALLIANCE is fiscally sponsored by The Hack Foundation (d.b.a. Hack Club), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN: 81-2908499).