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GEARS is Garrett County’s year-round engineering & robotics “club”, which supports the existing FIRST Robotics teams as well as creating its own engineering competitions, camps, and robot construction projects.

Our motto is: Inquire – Invent – Construct - Compete

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G-FORCE is Winning Alliance in Ohio.

G-FORCE is Winning Alliance in Ohio.

G-FORCE was victorious again at the Ohio FTC regional this weekend.

After winning all our qualifying matches, G-FORCE was placed as the top seeded robot.
We then selected Teams 2888 and 315 to join us in our alliance.

The Alliance won all of its semi-final and final elimination matches to become the Winning Alliance.

Thanks to Team 2888 (our Super Shooting partner), and Team 315 (The super blocker) for making it an exciting competition.

G-FORGE Auto Mode Sampler

As we prepare for our FTC competition in Cincinati Ohio, I thought we should show off some of our new Autonomous modes.

Here is a sample video on youtube.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxQRtikBn5Y

These are just some (and not even our best) auto modes.

Phil.

SimPerch. First public release.

Hi everyone.

Although it's SimPerch 3.0, it's the first Official release of the Seaperch Simulator that Kendrick Bender has written.

Download the installer from here: http://tinyurl.com/simperch

It's 29MB, so it may take a while on a slow connection.
Once you have the file, just run it to install the program.

FRC Software Information

  • Control System intro: Link
  • What's New in LabVIEW: Link
  • NI Community: Link
  • NI Support: Link
  • FRC Mastery: Link

FRC Electrical Information

  • Control System intro: Link
  • Drive Systems: Link
  • Motors: Link
  • General Parts: Link
  • General Parts: Link
  • Sensors & Stuff: Link

FRC Mechanical Information

  • Chassis assembly: Link
  • CAD part models: Link
  • Hardware Supplies: Link
  • Drive Systems: Link
  • Motors: Link

Important FRC Links

  • FIRST FRC Website Link
  • Game animation/video (visual game explanation) Link
  • Competition Manual (these are the rules.... read them) Link
  • Official Q&A (these are the EXTRA rules.... read them)

Gearing Up. A 4-part FIRST Robotics Movie

Here are 4 YouTube links for a cool FIRST Robotics Competition Movie.

It follows 4 FRC teams from around the country from Kickoff to Competition.

Miss Daisy, (a Baltimore MD team) is one of the 4 teams.

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4

G-FORCE playing in MD FTC Finals

G-FORCE playing in MD FTC Finals

I love this picture. It's the essence of a great match.

The G-FORCE robot (2818) is in the process of shooting for the outside goal. The drive team looks extremenly relaxed, and the crowd is going crazy.

What a great showing by G-FORCE and their supporters.

The team also won the "Think" award for doing a great job of documenting their journey to the competition.