Our teams:
Electrical team
Wires the control system: the roboRIO (the robot's brain), a Power Distribution Hub (PDH) or Panel (PDP), motor controllers (e.g., Talon FX inside the Kraken X60/Falcon 500, or SPARK MAX/Flex driving NEO motors), the radio, breakers, the 12V battery, and sensors. Clean, reliable wiring is a hallmark of strong teams.
Mechanical team
Designs and fabricates the physical robot: the drivetrain (how it moves), the manipulators (intakes, arms, shooters, climbers), and the structure. Members learn to use tools like drills, band saws, lathes, mills, 3D printers, and CNC routers, and to work with aluminum extrusion, gears, belts, and bearings. On 1716, the mechanical team is combined with CAD for the first part of the season.
Programing team
Writes the robot code using WPILib (the official library, supporting Java, C++, and Python) in a VS Code-based environment, plus the FRC Driver Station software. Programmers handle drivetrain control, autonomous routines, sensor integration, and increasingly vision (cameras like Limelight or PhotonVision).
C.A.D. team
The CAD team helps design the whole robot on computers so that we don't have to waste materials on versions that wouldn't work. However, we still do a lot of physical prototyping as well. The CAD team works directly with all the teams to figure out where to integrate systems and to design in a way that we can build in real life.