This project is a sequel to the 6209 QuadX: Relic Recovery from my perspective.

What is Rover Ruckus?

The objective for Rover Ruckus can be found here: FIRST Rover Ruckus by Qualcomm. 

During this season, we accomplished:

1. Competitive integration of 7 rookies in a team of 11.
   1. Software: FTC Integration Modules
2. 2 Robots (Rattlesnake, Scorpion) costing $732.83.
3. Website (Domain Expired)
4. Business Plan (Illustrator)*
5. Engineering Notebook (InDesign)*
6. Software Portfolio
7. Hardware Portfolio*
8. Secured the #1 Alliance for our league in our last competition (Scouting).

*I don’t have the final versions of certain files (explained in the project timeline) and am unable to access my alumni account. These versions will remain unlinked (unless otherwise received).

Here is the autonomous for Rattlesnake (OpenCV).

Here is the final autonomous for Scorpion (TensorFlow).

Project Timeline

Coming soon but not any time soon.

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The most significant event of the story occurs in the following year, when the guy i trained in software got his team to the world's competition. There also exists some other successes by members of the team following the season.

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The second most significant event in the story is when I proposed an idea to shoot the balls into thing.

Then, a lot of people in our organization called me stupid and my team agreed on a different robot design.

Another team - not in the school - designed a robot with the idea I proposed - by coincidence - and their robot was so overpowered that this idea got banned by FIRST.

So, my "stupid idea" was so overpowered it got banned mid-season.

Then, everyone on our team agreed our first robot design wasn't competitive. So, we designed a second robot which was competitive.

Unfortunately, we didnt spend enough time testing the robot (for whatever reason). There is - in hindsight - an error where using a singleton class during initialization prevents your robot from changing to teleop after autonomous. So, our robot - which used a singleton class during initialization - kept dying in teleop.

We made it to a semifinal or final despite this due to the autonomous and diplomacy. However, the semifinal or final placement didnt matter because of how it works and we got no awards.

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The third most significant event of the story is when I became an assistant project manager despite my "reputation" from the prior season.

There also existed other members with "reputation" on our team. This wasn't an issue except for one person on our team, who kept pushing this idea that we were the "worst team" due to the others' reputations.

However, the rankings don't reflect the assertion we were the worst team.

This event is significant because

the person on our team

who held an opinion that we were the "worst team"

influenced certain team decisions

which impacted the team throughout the season.

Yet his opinions always coincided with a member of a different team...

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The fourth most significant event of the story involves girls who weren't on my team.

in hindsight, its fine because 6 years later...
in hindsight, its "bullshit" because parents...