Hardware

What makes the robot tick.

Spin-dexer

A spindexer is a rotating indexer that lines up game pieces before scoring. We built one to feed artifacts into the scorer in the right order for the DECODE motif bonus. It worked in concept but we never got it reliable enough to run in a real match.

Autonomous

As mentioned in the Teleop section, we used Pedro Pathing for efficiency and precision, which allows us to make precise curves in our Autonomous phase, which means the robot moves on its own. This enabled us to use the Pedro Pathing Visualizer for enhanced viewing of Autonomous paths.

Turret Auto-aim

This season, we worked on using Gyro sensors (IMUs and encoders) as well as April Tag detection using a generic camera to be able to automatically aim our turret at the goal. This means that an operator and driver's job is greatly reduced and they can focus on more important things, being rest assured that the aim will be taken care of.