u/swizzles_333

Hi! Our team has been thinking about hosting a scrimmage the summer (or spring) of 2027. But we are still quite new and we've never attended a scrimmage as we'd need to travel to another country and we need to save our funds for the actual competition travel. Anyways we would be hosting this scrimmage alone, and we'd have a great venue. My only concerns are that we only have a field and I was wondering if it's possible to borrow those from FIRST or something? Also how do scrimmages actually work? Is it just like a freidnlier version of a competition? Do we have to include portfolio presentations and everything? And for volunteers who so we use? Because random people from the community wont know a thing about FTC making it a bit difficult to act as referees. Plus asking for help from other teams isn't an option. Can someone also please provide a rundown of what scrimmages often entail and like a list of things we need to prepare? Ty!

Our team is now going to be entering our second year, and we have aspirations to become more competitive and qualify to premier events. However, we are quite lost in how to improve our programming. We initially used time based movement using the sleep() function for autonomous, but during the season we realised how inconsistent it was and we switched to using encoders for our movement motors in our autonomous. We use a very basic form of encoders tho. I've heard of Pedro pathing but have absolutely no idea what it is or what it helps with, and I've also heard of odometry, which I think I understand but we can't buy dead wheels so I was thinking on using the gyro in the hub and to use encoder ticks? What do you think our next steps should be in improving our programming and becoming more pro? I would love to hear what programming changes or additions really helped your team excel!

Btw we program in java on onbot

Hello kind Adopt Me players!

I regret to inform everyone that I am currently experiencing a very serious bison emergency.

I have searched my inventory. I have searched my soul. I have come to the conclusion that my life is incomplete without a bison running around my inventory. I have no explanation. I just need the little guy 🦬

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to play much when the bison was available, so I never got one 😔

If anyone has a spare bison they don’t need, I would be forever grateful and promise to give it the best virtual home possible 💛

Please help me end this bison crisis 🙏😭

Thank you for your time in this extremely important matter.

I would really appreciate fly pots or ride pots or pets that already have a potion because i love them so much!! I currently only have 1 fly pet that i love so much because its so easy to go around with them, its really fast and its so cute but i would really appreciate some more so that I can also ride or fly other pets!!! I've really tried to trade for them but my inventory isn't good enough and I'm very attached to the few good pets i have.... Anyways tysm for hearing me out! Hope you all have an amazing week!

I'm not looking for anything in particular apart from the fact that I'm only lf pets! No pets like golden griffins, diamond dragons etc!

Also for dirty duckies I will not be trading them for random commons or pets like ants or mice (got asked in game today 😭)

Just hit me with your offers! Have a good day :)

I'm not looking for anything in particular apart from the fact that I'm only lf pets! No pets like golden griffins, diamond dragons etc!

Also for dirty duckies I will not be trading them for random commons or pets like ants or mice (got asked in game today 😭)

Just hit me with your offers! Have a good day :)

Hii, i missed the admin abuse today even though I put a reminder on my phone and I was wondering if anyone had a few spare admin abuse eggs they wouldn't mind giving me! Even one would be nice! Thank you all and I hope everyone reading this has a great day!

Hi kind adoptmegiveaways community! I was wondering if anyone had any dango penguins, therapy dogs, happy duckling, flower power duckling, pea chick, chick, hopbop, snorgle, snow monkey, snowball pug, I would really appreciate it as these are pets that I've been wanting for a while but I still haven't been able to get my hands on! To further convince you I have a poem here:

Hi kind Adopt Me Giveaways community! I was wondering if anyone had pets to spare for me I’ve been searching far and wide, But these dream pets still seem to hide.

Dango penguins, therapy dogs too, Happy ducklings bright as dew, Flower power ducklings full of style, Pea chicks that always make me smile!

Chicks and hopbops, snorgles as well, Snow monkeys casting a wintery spell, And snowball pugs so fluffy and sweet, They’d make my small collection complete!

I’d really appreciate any help I can get, These are some dream pets I haven’t found yet. I can’t offer much, that much is true, So kindness is all I’m asking from you

Even just one would brighten my day, And I’d treasure it always, not trade it away!

Hi there, so I'm still pretty new to FTC, and I was looking at the bases of the starter bots that were recently released. Last season most of the starter bots (GoBilda, Studica and AndyMarks) and most bots i saw had a total of 4 wheels, 2 on each side. But looking at the new base designs I've noticed that the gobilda and REV designs have a total of 6 wheels. Why?? What advantage does this give?? And is it a big advantage?

Sooo our team is looking into deadwheel odometry as it seems to be something that will really up both our auto and teleop especially since we will need to effectively intake pollen during autonomous, but looking into it it look like we will need to purchase a few things but unfortunately we are completely broke and have no budget to buy ANYTHING. However, 3d printing is definitely an option. Oh also we dont have any additional motors, but I'm unsure if we will need those for the deadwheels. So far we were thinking about maybe 3d printing deadwheels somehow and then using the control hub as imo somehow

Honestly any help and guidance would really help as we're quite unsure how to tackle this issue...

And is it even possible to implement odometry and deadwheels with no budget? Has anyone done this before and is it really hard? We are not as experienced in complex programming. Is it possible to build functional dead wheels using 3D-printed parts? Do dead wheels require additional motors, or can they work purely passively with encoders? And if they don't require motors then what do the encoders attach to? And do we need an additional imu cause again we have no budget left.

Also we don't use mecanum wheels (can't afford them lol) and we use a tank drive. And if you tell us to get money via sponsorship and fundraising, if we succeed in that aspect the money will be used towards logistical reasons and the field.

Tyyy!

So our team is thinking to preorder the field soon before it sells out and so that we don't have to frantically worry about it in September, and we were wondering if it's better to purchase the full or the partial field. We're not very abundant in money right now but we do know that practicing with half a field can be limiting depending on the season. We really want to maximise our opportunities of reaching events such as world champions but we also have to be reasonable in terms of price. Is it worth it to buy a full field? Or is it fine with just a partial? Any opinion would help!