We are FRC 5212, otherwise known as TAMSformers Robotics! This year, we competed at the Texas district FRC competitions at Waco and Dallas, we also competed at the Texas District Championship in Houston. Our award winning program even reached
All of our team members are students of the Texas Academy of Math and Science, an early college STEM program at UNT.
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This is our Robot, Crosshair, that was made to compete in the FRC Crescendo game during the 2024 season, First In Show. This game involved collecting orange rings known as Notes and shooting them into goals known as the Amp and the Speaker in order to score points. At the end of the game, robots could lift themselves off the ground onto a chain to earn extra points. In order to accomplish these goals, our robot utilizes 3 major mechanisms.
Using a Holonomic Swerve drivetrain with a gyroscope, our robot is able rotate in place while translating position. Our swerve drive train allows our robot to manuever around various obstacles on the field, including other robots.
In order to gain control of a Note, our robot uses an intake mechanism with green compliant wheels to pick it up off of the ground. From here, the notes is safely stored in our robot. When we reach the goal, our shooter wheels spin up and the intake wheels transfer the note into the shooter where it is released into the goal. These two components act in unison to help us score points.
Our intake and shooter are located on an arm that can move all the way from a ground position to facing straight up. When in the ground position, the intake wheels are low enough to pick up a note off the ground. While straight up, a note can be shot directly into the Amp. At certain angles in the middle, the arm is positioned to where the note can be shot into the speaker. Using linear interpolation, we can calculate this angle based off of the distance from the speaker. Additionally, two winches are velcroed to the arm and also attached with kevlar rope to motors at the bottom of the robot. These motors can loosen or tighten the rope in order to pull down the Winches. When climbing on the chain, the winches are hooked on and pulled down on to pull the robot up off the ground.
Here are some more pictures of the previous robots that we have made!
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Here are the Club Execs for the 2024 - 2025 school year. Each of them manage a separate area of the club and work together to keep our team operational.
Nathan is the Chief Engineer for 2024-2025. He works
on the design and manufacturing of the robot as well as
teaches CAD and workshop skills.
Sameer is the Programming Lead for 2024-2025. He
manages the programming side of the robot and teaches
coding to juniors. He also works with the wiring and electronics of the robot
Chloe is the Social Coordinator for 2024-2025. She
manages our social media accounts and maintains
posts while also organizing volunteering opportunities.
Shuopu is the business director for 2024-2025. He
manages our finances and coordinates grants for the
team. He also takes care of logistics for our competitions and travel.
Kevin is the Special Operations Manager for 2024-2025.
He handles a variety of roles, including programming,
building, and researching new ideas for implementation.
Our team's diversity has been critical in maximizing creativity by incorporating ideas from people all from different walks of lives. We try our hardest to ensure that those who have been discriminated against throughout their lives are given the opportunities as everybody else on the team.
Here are our different sponsorships plans and benefits of each.
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1705 W. Sycamore Street, Denton, TX 76201
tamsformers@gmail.com
(940) 331-0050
