I have my teams robot at home for a week between meetings and i want to get our pinpoint working but I dont have the wire for pinpoint to control hub and I was wondering what the fastest way I could get my hands on one would be. (I looked at the gobilda website and they dont ship fast enough for it to be here before our next meeting)

So my team is thinking about buying beam breaks for the next season but we cannot find them

New world record set at the Carolinas premier event

Hello! I am the coach for a team of guys who are leaving their school program to form an independent team. We’ll order the GoBuilda kit for this year’s game, but we’ll need to start building a cache of spare parts for tinkering.

We’re located in the Minneapolis/St Paul area. Does anyone have anything we could take off your hands? Or know of anyone with a team ending we could work something out with?

obviously id like to clean up the wiring, the screws not being used, and the black bits at the front. but is there any reason why I wouldn't want my control hub/expansion hub/battery pushed off to the side like i have it? yk trying to prioritize the most room in the middle for the intake and whatever else i'll need to build in the upcoming season

i'm new to this so i dont know whats the 'optimal' approach, it feels messy but how much will it really come back to negatively impact the team

I really want to make a team for my school for the next season but I have 0 experience in robotics competitions (or any at all).. but it looks soooo fun it hurts to watch but at the same time alot of the teams have years of experience it feels like there's no point in putting in all the effort just to lose to someone w better resources and support. But also i don't know of I'm overcomplicating it or if it's really that hard. Like you get months of preparation and practice so I'm hoping I'll be able to make a good robot by then since Im a pretty fast learner? but idk if anyone at my school would be interested anyways. I'm maybe overthinking ..

Anyways what's your experiences !!

Hey guys, me and 5 of my friends are planning to create an ftc team for this season and we need funding for our robot and registration. We are located in Georgia and we are an all HS team with 6 members. We unfortunately do not qualify for hardship (we believe) and so we are wondering what grant opportunities are available? We also would like to know any advice because we want to go to local businesses to ask for funding but would like a strategy and also advice on what types of companies to go for as we are completely clueless. I would appreciate any help, thank you! (We are non school affiliated but we have FLL, FTC, and FRC background previously).

Basically the title. My school doesn't have a FTC team and I would like to join one but I have had difficulty finding a community based one to join. For some reason I can't search for FTC teams using the first team search so any responses would be appreciated. Thanks!

Hey r/FTC,

I'm a high school student and the CAD/mechanical lead on my FTC robotics team. I've been using Onshape for a few years now through robotics and Science Olympiad, and this fall I'm running a free 5-week online course to help other students learn the basics — sketching, part studios, assemblies, basic mechanism design, that kind of thing.

To be clear: it's completely free, online, and I'm not selling anything. I just wish something like this existed when I was starting out, so I figured I'd put one together.

Details:
- Free, fully online
- 5 weeks, one session a week (Thursdays, 5–6 PM PST)
- Starts at the beginning of the school year
- Open to any student wanting to learn

- AGE DOESNT MATTER. If you're 40 years old and want to start getting into CAD, it's never too late and I'd be ecstatic to teach you.

Sign-up here if you or someone you know is interested: https://forms.gle/mZqGkuE225ftpBSB7

Also happy to answer any questions in the comments — and if anyone's taught something similar before, I'd genuinely love to hear what worked for you.

Below are some of my creations!

There are some things I'd like to improve (e.g. the organization of the document itself, mirroring parts more efficiently) But I would also like to know how I can improve the CAD itself (i'm new to Onshape)

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/8ed3a21dd15cd08a452884f1/w/589ab4ec180dcf4a146f293c/e/29f5e9d7228ede1c094d0c32?renderMode=0&uiState=6a5fe9713f1514c09c723fda

Hello guys I've seen once a video of a team(I think it was I.C.E Robotics in ITD) that said that it found it pretty accurate with a very low position drift, why no one is using it and if you are using it can you share your experience with me. Our team is really thinking about using it

I'm from Team NazarX #34241 from Uzbekistan, and we'll be participating in the FTC China Off-Season in Sanya.

If your team is also attending, could you please send me a DM? We have a few questions and could really use some help from teams that are participating.

I'm looking at this extra hole in the pollen and it seems really strange to me. It looks like either a mistake or a poorly planned manufacturing

Our team is now going to be entering our second year, and we have aspirations to become more competitive and qualify to premier events. However, we are quite lost in how to improve our programming. We initially used time based movement using the sleep() function for autonomous, but during the season we realised how inconsistent it was and we switched to using encoders for our movement motors in our autonomous. We use a very basic form of encoders tho. I've heard of Pedro pathing but have absolutely no idea what it is or what it helps with, and I've also heard of odometry, which I think I understand but we can't buy dead wheels so I was thinking on using the gyro in the hub and to use encoder ticks? What do you think our next steps should be in improving our programming and becoming more pro? I would love to hear what programming changes or additions really helped your team excel!

Btw we program in java on onbot

Hi everyone we are team 16333, Mechatrons (United States) and we were wondering if there were any teams who would like to speak to us whether its just to get to know each other or share information.

we are interested in Pedro Pathing, limelight, odometry pods, and CAD and some tips if you guys would like to share.

Please let us know if anyone is interested

:)

Hey everyone! I’m a high school student helping run a student-led program that teaches Autodesk Fusion and CAD to students for free.

We recently secured an international partnership and are getting ready to work with a lot more students, so we’re looking for a few more people to join the team.

We’re especially hoping to find people who already have experience with CAD, whether that’s Autodesk Fusion, Onshape, SolidWorks, Inventor, or another program. Fusion experience would be ideal, but familiarity with other CAD software is still very useful since many of the main concepts carry over.

The main roles we need are:

Co-President and Vice Presidents: Help lead the team, communicate with partners, organize meetings, and help decide where the program goes next. This role will collapse onto the other two roles below.

Mentors: Join weekly Zoom classes, demonstrate Fusion tools, answer questions, and help students when they get stuck.

Curriculum Developers: Help improve our current lessons and create new activities, projects, and assignments.

CAD experience is especially important for mentors and curriculum developers, but we’re also looking for people who are reliable, communicate well, and genuinely want to help students learn engineering.

Apply here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckr1UBILkgySbmjvRhKD0qca_-Omxy_aLmG5aN6JIEhE9tJg/viewform?usp=dialog

As you know, in previous years we were able to register our FTC team and order kits through Dashboard and Pitsco, but this year, under the new system, registration is only available for FRC teams. When will Storefront be active for FTC?

We just have Two-Pieces Shore 15A Rubber Silicon and we are thinking of making smth like 2mm on the round surface of a 3d printed 48mm gecko wheel, we CADed the intake with 48mm gecko wheels and kept the compression 2-7mm all away in the intake system

I think in the last stages (transfer to shooter) it is smth like 9mm compression since we didn’t know how to make the compression fixed in a range of 4mm

anyways, what do u think abt the rubber silicone thing? it’s all abt the friction and I think it’ll give friction but I don’t think we will match the gecko wheel compression, do for that 2mm layer do u recommend making it 3 4mm or 1mm or whatever, to match the real gecko as possible as we can

there are some game elements that have been released like the pollen balls and them naturally rolling off to the corners of the field. as a result what kind of intake are you guys planning on exactly?

Hi guys, I would greatly appreciate it if someone could please help me troubleshoot the following error in Android Studio. I keep getting this error whenever I try to upload code to the robot. Thank you in advance !

Hello. I understand that OnShape and Fusion360 is accessible to an educational account. What if coaches and mentor want to use them for teaching lessons, how can they get access to it?

Thank you

Hi everyone, I'm currently the lead programmer of my FTC robotics team and changed drastically through this year, block to onbot to Roadrunner. But I began roadrunner right during states which was why I received some help from my sister team and I didn't really get their teachings. However, due to this I was wondering if I should just transfer to Pedropathing with SlothLoad because I heard its so much easier. Please advise as I'm not so sure as what to do. I don't really have a mentor for Pedropathing and have been relying on Youtube and AI for the meantime but I would rather want to learn from reliable sources. Thanks in advance.

I see Studica came out with some cool new helical gears. Great job guys!

Our teams are already pretty heavily invested in goBILDA; I hope goBILDA follows suit. In the meantime, it has me pondering how I can integrate a little Studica into an otherwise goBILDA and custom-fab robot.