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Show HN: High school robotics code/CAD/design binder release
Hello HN! My name is Patrick, and I am a junior at my High
School's FRC robotics team FRC 341 "Miss Daisy" (yes named after
the movie). Every year, during the first weekend in January, a new
robotics game is released (no it's not battlebots). The game could
be about launching balls into a goal, climbing monkeybars, or
placing cubes on a see-saw. This year we were challenged to build a
robot that could shoot orange foam donuts into a goal about 6 feet
in the air. Here is a yt video with the game animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9keeDyFxzY4&t. After we received
the game we then had six weeks to design, build, program, and field
a robot capable of playing the game. And we did pretty well this
year! I have attached a ChiefDelphi thread (robotics forum) where
we have released our season materials. This being our CAD (3D model
of robot), code, and design binder. I encourage you to take a look
and leave any questions that you may have. Thanks a lot!
Author : Hacktrick
Score : 71 points
Date : 2024-08-24 19:40 UTC (3 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.chiefdelphi.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.chiefdelphi.com)
| Hacktrick wrote:
| An additional comment, you can check our blue alliance page
| (https://www.thebluealliance.com/team/341) to see our in season
| results.
| altcognito wrote:
| I haven't read through the binder yet but I appreciate you cross
| posting this to HN because the work many FRC teams do is
| excellent for a bunch of high schoolers and deserves more
| visibility.
|
| Good luck, next season is just around the corner.
| Hacktrick wrote:
| Thanks! I am excited to see what the new game is.
| mkoubaa wrote:
| I sincerely hope the next game is rocket league
| Hacktrick wrote:
| That would be really cool! There was something kind of like
| that in 2010, you had to score soccer balls in goals. But there
| were these obstacles on the field and poles you could climb at
| the end for extra points. It was called breakaway.
| FredPret wrote:
| I'm not even that old but the phrase "high school robotics"
| would've been pure daydreaming back then.
|
| Incredibly exciting that you can do this!
| core_dumped wrote:
| I'm in my mid 20s and FRC was probably my favorite high school
| memory. From the community, to the challenges, to the robots
| you get to participate in building. It's such a cool program.
|
| Hopefully it gains higher adoption among other public schools,
| FRC was foundational to my SWE journey
| vrosas wrote:
| I'm a SWE now, but being on the build team of FIRST taught me
| an incredible amount and now that I'm a homeowner I'm
| realizing how applicable it is. I remember cutting 2x4s to
| build demo field parts and now I'm building walls of my home
| out of the same material with the same tools I used as a
| teenager.
| lobsterthief wrote:
| Same, I'm in my late 30s and it's one of my best high school
| memories as well. Learned so much, made so many great
| friends, and worked with amazing technologies.
| WillAdams wrote:
| Back in the days of personal computing, an administrator at my
| high school managed to secure funding for a robotics course
| despite there not being anyone at the school who knew more than
| basic wiring.
|
| We wound up buying an Apple ][ and a Rubbermaid trash can and
| an early voice recognition module (Cognivox) which we then
| mounted on a set of wheels and put the monitor on a lazy susan
| on top and the opening was made into a drawer for the
| computer/keyboard, and the bottom was opened up to have a
| latchable door where an extension cord and other accessories
| could be stored.
|
| We called it CTC-1 (Computerized Trash Can, Mark 1) --- always
| wondered what happened to it and the lab of TRS-80 Model
| IIIs...
|
| I still regret not over-ruling the finance committee and buying
| my kids a Lego Mindstorm set when they first came out.....
| dano wrote:
| If you have an interest in FRC, consider becoming a mentor at a
| local program in your area. I've mentored Team 812 in La Jolla
| California for about 14 years. It's incredibly rewarding.
|
| https://www.firstinspires.org/resource-library/volunteer/men...
| pryelluw wrote:
| There's also the Microsoft Teals program that is focused on CS
| (I'm a volunteer). Just putting it out there. Not all schools
| have robotics programs.
|
| Btw, congrats to the OP and team. Proud of yalls work!
| mafm wrote:
| Nice work!
|
| Cool that you made this available for other people to benefit
| from.
| NathanielBaking wrote:
| You left your credentials in the open on your github site. Please
| change them post haste!
| oxume wrote:
| If you're referring to the obfuscated ghp_ token, it's a
| read:packages token, documented here:
| https://github.com/Mechanical-Advantage/AdvantageKit/blob/ma...
| WillAdams wrote:
| Why OnShape?
|
| Why not Commonwealth Robotics Studio or some other opensource CAD
| option?
| boromi wrote:
| Super easy for collaborative work. As good as some opensource
| CAD options are, there isn't really anything out there in terms
| of OnShape for collaborative CAD work.
| avhon1 wrote:
| Commonwealth robotics studio doesn't seem to be suitable for
| designing typical FRC robots. It looks like it's meant to
| design and simulate robots that mostly consist of servo-driven
| legs around a central body.
|
| The only open-source CAD option I've seen that might be
| suitable for doing this kind of design work is FreeCAD, or its
| Ondsel fork. There are not many people available to FRC teams
| to teach them how to use these programs, and there's a high
| risk of them running into serious bugs or limitations.
|
| Most FRC teams use professional CAD packages (like Autodesk
| Inventor and Dassault SolidWorks). These packages are offered
| to teams for free. Many teams have mentors who have
| professional experience using one of these programs. OnShape
| has taken over in the last couple of years as the most popular,
| because it is easier to license, doesn't require installation
| permissions, works on any device with a web browser, has an
| easy to understand and administer way for multiple people to
| collaborate on a model, and has a critical mass of community
| scripts, part collections, and tutorials.
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