2020 F4 CADathon Robot
A football and weight lifting robot
After the 2020 FRC competition was cancelled by COVID-19, I decided to join a CAD competition based on a sports challenge, with two of my close friends. The challenge was to pick up a 40lb barbell weight and throw footballs into field goals. The competition gave us 48 hours to fully design a functional robot in a team of 3, a challenge that I underestimated at the beginning. Below is our final assembly that we submitted with, overall it placed 16th across over 150 teams.
My role on the team was designing the football shooter and feeder system. In the preliminary design phase, I decided it would be easiest to store the football horizontally so that it wouldn’t have an option but to stay in that orientation, since it has the smallest radius. I later decided this would be the best orientation to shoot in as well, giving the ball a spiral to keep it stable. Both my designs can be seen below, keeping in mind they were designed very quickly, leaving time for integration and rendering.
