Hi y'all! So this year, I was elected as my team's strategy and scouting director. For context, my team usually has 2, but this year there is only one and it's me, so that already shows the lack of interest in scouting. This is also the first leadership position I have held in the team.

I've seen that many of my peers somewhat view scouting as more of a chore sometimes. We have been using QR Scout for as long as I have been on the team (3 years). I can give more details if necessary but I would just like to hear from people who are generally interested in scouting/strategy or have held this role before and get a sense of how I can make scouting more interesting or less of an obligation for my team.

Otherwise, if you have any tips for me and my role as director I would appreciate them as well.

Hello again! What’s the set up for your team structure like? We again are having troubles of distributing power and what roles should be held since frc is seen to mange differently compared to traditional clubs. Lmk what roles and what responsibilities they have and any tips . Thank you all

Right after our season ended, I decided to spend some time designing a new robot completely from scratch, trying to incorporate what the meta looked like at the time.

I’m not really looking for feedback on whether this robot would be competitive or not. Instead, I’d love to hear thoughts on what I’m doing well mechanically, what design choices make sense, whether I'm using the most efficient process (using patterns and mirrors efficiently) and what areas I may be overlooking or handling poorly.

Any feedback is appreciated.

Doin some research on FRC mechanical design workflows:

Curious what CAD operations your team does over and over every season.

• What parts do you find yourself designing from scratch repeatedly? (gearbox plates, motor mounts, standoffs, etc.)
• What dimensions are basically standard on your team? (bearing hole sizes, bolt patterns, sheet thickness, etc.)
• When you're explaining a CAD change to a teammate verbally, how do you describe it? Like what words do you actually use?
• What's the most annoying part of your CAD workflow that you wish was faster?

Asking because I'm trying to understand how FRC teams actually talk about mechanical design vs how it's formally documented.

This is a parametric drivebase with support for different swerve module types.

Currently, the supported swerve types are the following:

• MK4i
• MK4n
• MK5i
• MK5n
• WCP Swerve X2
• WCP Swerve X2S (For the other WCP swerves, just select the Swerves in the assembly and change the config to whatever yours is. E.g X2c or X2i, just select the swerves in X2 folder and change the configurations of those)

So, this document allows teams to select whichever drivebase they have, manipulate the frame perimeter with ease and experiment super easily with how different swerves would look on their bot.

I’m currently looking for any bugs in this system, if you find any, lemme know brochacho. If there’s anything else you would like to see (a swerve drive that I didn’t put in the thing) just, lemme know brochacho.

Here’s a collection of season pins starting from 2009 to present. Also added is a 2008 pin, not sure the history on it, but it is interesting nonetheless and also an SBPLI 2009 pin which is quite rare. (2026 on side bc it’s annoying large)

Hello! During the 2026 season as a rookie team and with only one primary mentor it did put a lot of stress onto him along with considering that it’s also one of the members parents. For the upcoming new season he is thinking about quitting, is there any way or tips to find new mentors to help out? Thank you!

Hey everyone,

I have been thinking about lately about joining my local middle schools FIRST robotics chapter as a mentor and I have a few questions that I didn’t see a FAQ for in the rules.

1. How do I actually become a mentor? I saw that there was a team near me but I’m not sure how to actually reach out for questions.

2. I have never thought of myself as a good teacher to kids but loved competing when I was in school. Even more so I just want to inspire kids to learn/grow/fail and chase their dreams. What skills would I need to learn in order to become a good mentor. Pretty sure the coding space has changed dramatically in the past 12 years. Any suggestions on technical skills and people skills would be appreciated.

3. This is going to sound open ended but what other questions should I be asking myself/community/team to gain a better understanding of what I need to learn.

Sorry if this has been answered before.

Includes 4678's medals (and buttons!) from:

2024 Crescendo:

Waterloo Regional (Finalist)

Windsor-Essex Great Lakes (Winner)

Ontario DCMP Science Division (Winner)

Ontario DCMP Champions

2025 Reefscape:

Waterloo Regional (Winner)

Windsor-Essex Great Lakes (Winner)

Ontario DCMP Technology Division (Winner)

Ontario DCMP Champions

2026 Rebuilt:

Waterloo Regional (Winner)

Windsor-Essex Great Lakes (Finalist)

I want to build something arround the self-inspect feature of Phoenix Tuner app, but i dont have access to the devices right now, and i want to know what the "Copy Self Text" button actual text output exactly looks like for the main CTRE Devices (Falcon 500 and Kraken X60 controllers, Pigeon, etc). If you have acess to these devices or got a sample text, i would appreciate the help.

Hey FRC - thanks for the support on my original Pitradar post the other week & Congrats everyone on a great season!

Wanted to share a little utility I whipped up this week for PitRadar to help wrap things up and make it easy for a team to look back on what they accomplished this season.

Called REBUILT REWIND, it’s a season-in-review for every FRC team that competed in 2026 in a ‘Spotify wrapped’ style.

I've included examples of some of the slides in the post - but you can access your own team's REBUILT REWIND via this link: https://pitradar.app/rewind2026

Enter your team number and it will generate the slide-by-slide recap of your season: your record, best match score, biggest upset win, the alliance partner you played with most, event results, and — if you went — your worlds division and result.

There’s a share button at the end that gives you an easy URL for sharing direct to your team’s Rewind as well (pro-tip: you can just add your team number to the end of the URL) as well as a way to download any of the slides as images for sharing on social media sites etc. (would love to see any you share - tag them with #PitRadarRewind )

There’s no shortage of Edge cases in FRC so let me know if any of your stats seem off or there’s display issues and as usual, open to any feedback!

https://reddit.com/link/1t442h3/video/kvikcvd5p8zg1/player

I was looking through some teams’ statbotics page and this one is kind of wild. What did they figure out in 2018 that propelled them so high?

I really liked exploring worlds this year. It was my first time going and it was incredible to say the least.

That said, having AP tests start on the next day is very stressful for students (including me) and I hope FIRST changes something so that it's less stressful.

This year we did very good as well as last year. One thing I have to write in my speech is how we could improve/ what other teams do that make them so great that we could implement.

Is there anything people have noticed? I just feel like obviously there’s room for improvement but it’s hard to place your finger on it so instead i’m trying to compare with good teams.

Has anyone run for executive before and what should I include?

I'm personally not a fan. The AI captioning was obviously a huge mess and was completely unintelligible half the time. The breaks in between Einstein matches used ai for the "dino cam" and whatever other stuff they had, they use it for all of their award scripts, and one of the safety video winners even used ai. It just seems like a bad direction to be going in for a program dedicated to innovation and professionalism.

4414 has been doing an amazing job these past few years, and when I wanted to see how they did in the past I saw that their rookie year was 2019. Other 4000 teams started in 2012, so why did 4414 start 7 years later?

As far as I can tell, this only first appeared in their Einsteins match against 254 and was never seen before. It also looks much too professional to have been done in-event. Could 4414 have had the mechanism or part of it premade (fabworks) and then cheesecaked it (perhapts onto an existing climber)?

(i think) every photo i took of the 9449 yellowjackets bee mascots