FRC2023-2024: Crescendo

Game Resources

• Game Manual
• Code Repository
• Impact Award Essay
• Flyers

Season Recap

What Went Well?

• Better team spirit
  • We had signs, cheers, stickers/buttons/pokemon cards
  • Better social media presence
• We had a strong summer (good training with lots of kids)
• Our participation in 2 off-season competitions gave lots of members good drive practice
• We were able to kick off quickly into prototyping phase
• Good mechanism ideas
  • Implementation of amp thing went well
  • Our ability to do redesign is very good
• Our auto-assists were very organized
• We had good cross sub-team communication
• We finished a lot of our priorities list
• Match strategy went well
• Good setup for how we were going to play each match
• Better alliances this year
• Pit scouting setup was effective and detailed
• We had ASB window fundraising this year
• We applied for Impact Award which we haven’t done in a long time
• Handles for the robot were nice
• Rounded corners were helpful before robot inspection
• Open alliance was used more this year

Mechanical

• Battery issues: Our battery got unplugged twice when we got hit.
  • Protect the battery from strenuous movement against hard hit.
• Wires are too taut: Wires or connectors may pull out or break when robot got hit hard.
  • Leave enough slack when wiring and strain relief the wire at the connectors.
  • Secure connectors by screwing them down or hot gluing them.
• Wiring maintainability: Connectors access may be blocked by fixtures.
  • Carefully plan the placement of the component and orientation so that the connectors are easily accessible.
• Shooter Tilter is fragile: Shooter Tilter is often damaged when hit.
  • Design a mechanism such that it is protected by the perimeter and within the robot bumpers.
  • It's okay for a mechanism to extend outside the perimeter but Turtle Mode should bring it back inside the protective perimeter.
• Shooter Tilter maintainability: Tilter was designed such that it's not easy to maintain. If the pulley breaks or skipped a tooth, it is not easy to fix.
  • Components should be design with maintainability in mind.
• Radio/Ethernet Switch is not accessible: Radio/Ethernet switch block are placed and wired such that it's not easy to fix their wiring.
  • If it is unavoidable that a component is placed in a hard to access location, it should be designed so that it can be "taken out" easily to fix the wiring and put back.

Caption text

Problems	Possible Solutions
Wiring issues
Example	Example	Example

Problems: Possible Solutions:

Wiring issues Too tight (not enough strain relief in cables) Connectors could’ve been secured better Some wires were hard to access Wrist Wrist was hard to access and maintain Radio Radio was also difficult to access

We could limit the exposure Design a mechanism such that it is protected by the perimeter and within the robot bumpers Turtle mode should be completely within the perimeter

Software Problems: Possible Solutions

Strategy/Scouting

Drive team Guarantee full commitment from drive team

Outreach/Awards/Media More spirit this year!! W media team Better social media presence

Team Leadership + advice for next year’s leaders Find key programmers? Emails weren’t being received by members Too many communication channels Connect email to discord People aren’t following up with small action items CEO delegates tasks to leadership team Have a running to-do list with status column (full leadership team has access to it) Sub-team communication Hard to startup a team