As the building team we are constanly making something new or working to improve something already made!
This is Larry our fourth and last robot of the 2025-2026 season! Larry has a mini lift instead of a full lift allowing us to be able to score 2 full parks. Larry stands for Let's. Assure. Robot. Runs. Y'all!
Larry utiliers a servo-powered horizontal indexer. Color sensors detect that an artifact has entered the indexer and spins counterclockwise to place the artifact in the launch position. Because we track artifacts as they enter, the robot scores motifs more easily.
The mini-lift system lifts two of the wheels of Larry off the ground and supports the robot inside the parking zone. Brake pads assist the servo-powered omni-wheel in lifting. The mini lift reduces the footprint of the robot by half, creating a more effective and safe mechanism to achieve two full parks.
T-Perry's turret was redesigned to allow for a second set of slywheels. Theses secondary flywheels reduce the artifacts do no bounce out of the goal. The motor used to power the secondary set of flywheels, so the artifacts area launched using two motors instead of one. This allows Larry to launch artifacts from anywhere on the field because of its increased power.
This is T-Perry the second version of Perry! T-Perry is our third robot of the 2025-26 season. T-Perry now has a lift again and also comes with a Turret! Dont worry T-Perry does not stand for Turret. Instead T-Perry stands for Together. Please. Ensure. Robot. Runs. Y'all!
The limelight camera finds the angle of the April Tag on the deopt from the robot and turns the turret so that it is facing the April Tag. Drivers can shoot faster because they dont have to spend time aligning the robot to the goal.
Instead of a rack and pinion lift as used by Lofty we used a set of viper slides run on two motors geared together, giving more strength to percent tipping and more height (Around 20 inches)
T-Perry utilizes a turret attached by a planetary gearbox. A 290° rotation allows drivers to intake and shoot without taking time to turn and line up the entire robot. The turret itself has a flywheel outtake that runs off a 6000rpm motor attached to two Rhino wheels
This is Perry! Perry is our second robot of the 2025-26 season. The lift system didnt work that well so Perry doesn't have one, but! Perry is great at scoreing points and moving around the field! Perry also stands for Please. Ensure. Robot. Runs. Y'all!
Perry's intake utilizes both gecko wheels and pentagonal boot kicker grips in a dual-stage chain driven system that funnels into an artifact indexer. This system is able to easily pick up artifacts from a wide angle due to the rubber and soft nature of the boot kickers and gecko wheels.
Perry's indexer was placed vertically at a slight angle to use gravity to secure arifacts within the indexer. The Indexer rotaes to align the artifact with one of the two 3D printed arm to push the artifcat into the flywheels and launch. LEDs were placed on the right and left hand sides of Perry to indicate the color of the artifact inside the indexer.
Perry's outtake is relatively unique, having two separate launching spots. It connects directly to the Artifact indexer, as two slots sit even at the top, either slot allows an artifact to be pushed outward, via servo driven kickers, onto a track that the artifacts floww into a flywheel.
This is Lofty, the 2025-26 first competition robot! Lofty is able to do all parts of the FTC Decode game, including being able to lift off the ground for another robot to park under! Lofty stands for Leaders. Of. Technological. Youth!
This subsystem is a "pass through" intake worked by using chains that spin sets of bristles pulling in a artifact
this system uses a rack and pinion (a gear set) that helps a motor spin to lift the robot, included are gravity locks that prevent the robot from falling back down
This system uses two un-geared 6000 RPM motors (directly connected to flywheels) in which spin such fly wheels that push against a artifact to force it forward therefore flying
This is T.I.M.M.Y the 2024-25 competition robot. T.I.M.M.Y was the only robot of this year, as it went through multiple iterations of change rather then full design overhaul. From the beginning T.I.M.M.Y could only do the basics of the "Into the Deep" game, however over time and by the end of the season T.I.M.M.Y was able to do all aspects of the game.
The Para-cord system was the first version of our lifting capability for the endgame stage of Into the Deep, it was changed out before the first competition due to its unreliability of working
After design changes we combined the front arm system and the full out-take system to be one central arm that pulls in samples using fly wheels and rotates upwards to allow clipping
Our linear slide system