In the 2023-24 CRESCENDO season, our team explored the idea of incorporating pneumatics into our robot, but we opted to defer this development until after the season to avoid the risks associated with integrating new technology mid-season. This summer, we have been working on an offseason project to build a T-shirt cannon, utilizing a 2-omni 2-swervepod drivetrain to manage costs effectively. The cannon is designed to hold and launch up to six T-shirts at a time. We anticipate completing the development between September and October, and we will share more details about the design and programming once the project is finalized.

This offseason, our senior programmers have begun working on a system to automatically detect and avoid moving obstacles (robots) on the field using a combination of ultrasonic sensors and LiDAR point clouds. More details to come.

After the 2023 season our team identified that our performance was being limited by our drivetrain system. We decided that our main offseason project would be to upgrade from a traditional tank drive to a swerve drive, which we then utilized in the 2024 season.