Inspiration for POWERPLAY, FIRST Tech Challenge 2022

TETRIX® R&D team is back again in Part II of our 2018-2019 FIRST Tech Challenge inspiration series. In this segment, TETRIX Creator, Paul Uttley, Robotics Applications Specialist Tim Lankford, and Educational Services Manager Aubrey Vance are sharing ideas for how to collect scoring elements and deliver them in order to earn points. Remember, these are not solutions just ideas to get your FTC team thinking about how to tackle this season's tasks.

The End Game is here. The TETRIX® R&D team is digging into the final portion of the challenge where you can score big with some serious lunar lander hang time. Here's Part III of our 2018-2019 FIRST Tech Challenge inspiration series. TETRIX Creator, Paul Uttley, Robotics Applications Specialist Tim Lankford, and Educational Services Manager Aubrey Vance are sharing ideas for how to finish strong. Remember, these are not solutions just ideas to get your FTC team thinking about how to tackle this season's tasks.

Are you ready to rise? As you build, test, tweak, troubleshoot, and fine tune your robot for the 2019 FIRST Tech Challenge game, SKYSTONE check out this game-related information and ideas from robotics experts, Tim Lankford and Paul Uttley. As always, you’ll build the solutions best suited for your game strategy. We hope these will get you started or through some design challenges as you advance through the competition. We cannot wait to see all of the bots #TETRIXteams bring to matches this season.

Adding suspensions to your robot can give you an advantage. In this RoboBench, Tim Lankford explains how adding suspension can be of benefit, how the suspension works, and shows the building process.

Meet the new and improved Mr. Robot II. In this special RoboByte, Tim shares the updates of TETRIX's iconic figure.

Follow along with Tim on this step-by-step build of the TETRIX MAX Ranger Bot. See how the RangerMax is easily assembled, all the functions and parts included, and other things to watch out for when building.

In this series, Application in Engineering, we introduce two different shooting mechanisms you can add to your robot. Aaron Locke, our Robotics Curriculum Specialist, shares how to build a flywheel mechanism and a striker system while also going through the benefits and the drawbacks of each.

In this Applications in Engineering video, Aaron Locke talks about robotic lift mechanisms. Whether it's lifting an object high into a goal or just picking something up and moving it to a new location, this is a common task in many engineering challenges and robotics competitions.

Need to get precise? Accurate? Exact? That's what the precision motor encoder is perfect for! You can use encoders to get exact speeds, consistent performance, and even plant seeds! Join Aaron as he shares his CropBot creation and how you can incorporate motor encoders in your robot.

Welcome back teams! As you build, test, tweak, troubleshoot, and fine tune your robot for the 2022 FIRST Tech Challenge game, POWERPLAY check out this game-related tips and tricks from our robotics experts. ALSO, new to our product assortment, the TETRIX Robo-Rails and Flex-Build Robot Chassis are essential in helping you build a better bot! We hope these will get you started or through some design challenges as you advance through the competition and we cannot wait to see all of the bots #TETRIXteams bring to this season.

2018-2019 FIRST Tech Challenge is here! And, we've got inspiration and tips from our TETRIX® R&D team to help you cause a ruckus this season. In this segment, TETRIX Creator, Paul Uttley, Robotics Applications Specialist Tim Lankford, and Educational Services Manager Aubrey Vance are talking all about the basics of the game. Plus, we've got some suggestions and considerations for the robot's chassis and navigating the challenge course. Remember, these are not solutions, just ideas to get your FTC team thinking about how to tackle this season's tasks.