The Blue BotBuilders have one of the most unique designs this year with their #SideGame deposit. A perennial powerhouse from Australia: Learn about how they managed so many degrees of freedom, effective endgame mechanisms, and just an overall compact CENTERSTAGE robot on Behind the Bot!

#14380 Blue BotBuilders achieving 2+5 in auto on the red audience side.

Video showing fine control of single Pixel drop off using articulating transfer for easier mosaics.

Version 5 of #14380 Blue BotBuilders FTC CenterStage, 2+4 auto

Version 2 of #14380 Blue BotBuilders FTC CenterStage auto: 2+2+2. Test, test, test.

Version 1 of #14380 Blue BotBuilders CenterStage 2+2 auto. Always improving and refining the robot.

We had to slightly redesign our drone launcher to operate without its own dedicated servo so that we could reposition this servo to our pitching intake. Moving the drone launcher forward on our robot, we now release the rubber bands using a button head screw in the long servo horns that hold and release our hook arms.

This video shows a close up of how we rotate and pivot our pixel transfer/delivery capsule so that we can gain additional horizontal and diagonal extension at the back of our robot.

A close up of testing our pitching intake.

Slow motion view of how our hook arms deploy, also show off the winch motor deep inside our robot.

Practicing driving our CentreStage robot with working horizontal slides. #CentreStage #FTC

This video shows a close up view of how our pixel transfer capsule works after intaking 2 pixels into the robot.

This video shows an alternative way to fold our paper plane when using our drone launcher. This method allows the wings of the plane to 'spring' out more once released from the launcher.

GS11.f as per this ruling on the FTC Q&A: https://ftc-qa.firstinspires.org/qa/220

Our team walks through the features of our custom made FTC control box. Want to make your own? All files are free and accessible by clicking on this link.

FTC Controller Box

A few improvements to have our horizontal slides working.

Testing out our drone launcher

Playing around with the intake on FTC 14380 - CenterStage

Testing Orange Delivery - Audience Side

Check out this great trick shot

Testing our auto from the backdrop side.

Testing the hang on 14380 - FTC CenterStage

Testing out the side game action on this years FTC CenterStage challenge.

Having fun with the intake.

Testing going under the truss and giving room for alliance member to drop

Our hang and paper airplane shooter from our first match at QLD States

14380 shows a helper class that can be used to expose OpenCV functionality for teams that are coding using blocks.

The code for this video can be found here:

https://gist.github.com/14380

Blue BotBuilders PowerPlay Worlds Promo