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Whale Shark

Reefscape 2025

Reefscape is the game for the 2025 FIRST Robotics Competition. Two alliances of three robots each work to score PVC pipes (called Coral) and playground balls (called Algae) into goals. At the end of the match, robots move to a truss structure called the Barge and climb metal Cages to earn additional points.

This year's robot focuses on two tasks: placing coral on the reef and hanging on the deep cage. The coral manipulator uses the elevator to reach the needed heights for the coral station and the various levels of the reef, and pivots to the needed angle. When intaking, we use a 3D printed funnel, which requires less accuracy aligning to the coral station (we can use a camera system to align to the reef). Our climbing mechanism is stored inside the robot, until it pivots out, drives into the cage, and then pulls it back, lifting the robot.

Groovin Green

Crescendo 2024

Crescendo is the game for the 2024 FIRST Robotics Competition. The game is themed around music and involves two alliances consisting of three teams each competing to perform various tasks, including shooting rings known as Notes into goals, and hanging on chains at the end of the match.

Groovin Green was a 8 wheel AndyMark Kit Chassis, and the last tank drive built by 4926. The machine had an under the bumper intake to collect NOTES on the floor with forward facing alignment lights. The intake passed the NOTES to a launcher arm that could rotate up 90deg to drop them in the AMP or launch them into the SPEAKER. A simple single extending climber on the side of the robot hooked the chain in end game and rose up against the STAGE truss.

ARMageddon

Charged Up 2023

Charged Up is the game for the 2023 FIRST Robotics Competition. The game is themed around two alliances of three teams each who compete to bring energy to their community. Robots retrieve cones and cubes from substations, score them on the grid, and balance themselves on the charge station.

ARMageddon was a 8-Neo custom Mecanum machine with 8” Wheels. The scoring system was a 3 joint “Arm” with the shoulder joint driven by a 4-bar mechanism on the drive base. A second “elbow” joint about waist high and a “wrist” joint connecting an EVERYBOT intake to the forearm. This robot easily balanced itself on the CHARGE STATION in autonomous and collected game pieces from the floor or the HUMAN PLAYER STATION and could score them at any level on the GRID.

Green Goblin

Rapid React 2022

Rapid React is the game for the 2022 FIRST Robotics Competition. The game is themed around transportation and involves two alliances consisting of three teams each competing to perform various tasks, including shooting balls known as Cargo into high and low hubs, and hanging on a series of rungs at the end of the match.

The Green Goblin was a 8 Wheel AndyMark tank drive kit chassis with electrically driven single pivot intake. The intake pulled CARGO into a Vectored Intake wheel conveyor with 2 sections. The 2nd section feed CARGO to a 3rd vertical conveyor powered by both wheels and belts. 1 CARGO was staged in the 2nd Conveyor and a second was staged in the 3rd for transport. The 3rd conveyor feed a double wheel fixed angle launcher. In end game dual electrically articulated extending climbers were used to reach the TRAVERSAL climb in the HANGER.

2021 season cancelled due to COVID

Bot Ross

Infinite Recharge 2020

Infinite Recharge is the game for the 2020-2021 FIRST Robotics Competition. The game centers around a futuristic city theme involving two alliances consisting of three teams each competing to perform various tasks, including shooting foam balls known as Power Cells into high and low goals to activate a Shield Generator, manipulating a Control Panel to activate this shield, and returning to the Shield Generator to park or climb at the end of the match.

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Bumpers Are Ravioli

Destination: Deep Space 2019

Destination: Deep Space is the game for the 2019 FIRST Robotics Competition. The game involves two alliances of three teams each competing to place hatch covers and rubber balls or “cargo” on rockets and cargo ships before eturning to their hab platform to climb at the end of the match.

Bumpers Are Ravioli was a customer West Coast drive machine that included 3 game play features. The key feature was a 4-bar mechanism pneumatically assisted climber that raised BaR onto the HAB. A narrow elevator with pneumatically actuated “fingers” collected Hatch Panels from the human player station and installed them on the Rockets. The final feature was a static intake that collected Cargo from the human player station and deposited them in the Cargo ship.

Guido

Power Up! 2018

FIRST Power Up is the game for the 2018 FIRST Robotics Competition. The game is played by two alliances of three teams each. Their robots compete on a field by placing milk crates which represent power cubes on large balancing scales in order to tip the scales and gain ownership. Alliances can also trade power cubes in for temporary advantages called power ups. At the end of the match, robots can climb or assist a partner in climbing the tower attached to the balancing scale, located on the center of the field, using a rung attached to the tower for additional points.

Guido was a custom West Coast Drive with a pneumatic ally driven tilting elevator. It incorporated intake arms on the elevator with multiple green squishy wheels to intake the power cubes and raise them. It could drop cubes into the Switch and raise to stack 2 or 3 cubes high on the Scale.

Lucy

Steamworks 2017

FIRST Steamworks is the game for the 2017 FIRST Robotics Competition. The game is played by two alliances of three teams each. Their robots compete on a field by scoring wiffleballs which represent fuel into a simulated boiler which transfers the generated steam into an airship in the middle of the field. Each alliance has one airship, which they pressurize with steam from the boiler and load with plastic gears from the field. At the end of the match, robots can hang on team-supplied ropes attached to the airship for additional points.

Our 2017 robot focused on running gears from the human player station to the Airship and climbing the Airship rope to be ready for takeoff. Our Boiler launching mechanism was ok, but the associated intake and hopper for Fuel this year was not particularly effective. Even still, Lucy was the first GalacTech robot to win a blue competition banner as the 2nd pick of the 3rd seed alliance at the Lafayette District Event. This robot also held it owns at 6-4 at the FIRST Championship in St. Louis.

Beowulf

Stronghold 2016

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Recycle Rush 2015

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Aerial Assist 2014

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