The Portfolio
The 16 pages that won the Think Award. Read them here.
The 16 pages that won the Think Award. Read them here.
Every design decision, prototype and test from our DECODE season, written up as we went rather than assembled at the end. This is the document the judges read when they gave us the Think Award at our first UK qualifier.
It is 16 pages. The summary below covers what is in it; the full PDF is at the bottom of this page.
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Robots read a coded pattern with vision, then launch artifacts into goals in that order. Scoring rewards two things at once: reading the pattern correctly, and being able to put artifacts where you meant to, repeatedly.
That shaped the whole build. A launcher that is accurate but slow loses to one that is slightly less accurate and can cycle. Our strategy chapter is about where we chose to sit on that trade.
A mecanum drivetrain for free lateral movement, three-wheel odometry for position we can trust, and a dual-flywheel launcher tuned for repeatable shots rather than maximum range.
We run Pedro Pathing for autonomous movement and a Limelight vision stack we tuned ourselves rather than taking off the shelf. The tuning process, and what we got wrong first, is written up in the portfolio.
Everything is public. The CAD, the code and these write-ups are all open source, because a season's worth of tuning notes is more useful to the next rookie team than it is sitting in our repo unread.
Code & CAD