FRC 2022

Awards/Honors:

- Orlando Regional Semi-Finalist

- Industrial Design award sponsored by General Motors

- Pirates Pillage off-season event Winner

- Roboticon offseason Judge's award

- Roboticon offseason Finalist

My first-ever FIRST Robotics Competition, wow. This year, my team and I were tasked with making a robot that can shoot balls, climb, drive, and much more.

Here's the challenge: https://youtu.be/LgniEjI9cCM

Here's a video of the robot during a game: https://youtu.be/aYxIj_buAMs (0:50)

^ you can find more videos by searching up "team 5557 Orlando 2022"

Documentation:

During the season, I was on the design team. Even though I was tasked with mainly design-related things, I also did a lot on the mechanical side of things. I spent most of my time shadowing the design team leader and project manager, Ale. I made sure I could learn as much as I possibly can. Here are some pictures and videos of my adventure! After the competition, My team, 5557, ranked 14 and made it to semi-finalists, winning several other awards and honors as mentioned above.

Our robot, Candice, hanging on the high bar during the competition:

Design: (Non-rendered, Fusion360)

Testing out the Robot in "the pit" of the competition:

Walking past the staff, after winning the FORD industrial award:

Misc:

Conclusion:

This season was really fun. I learned an unbelievable amount of new things regarding mechanical work, design, and calculations - and just had an overall super fun and productive time! :)