2025 Fall Training

This is the Pyro Tech team page for the 2025 Fall Training season. Team members are encouraged to use this page to capture information and links to resources related to the fall training sprints.

• Pyro Tech team page
• SmugMug2025 Fall Deep Dive videos and images.

Robot Stations

Station 1

This is a work-in-progress (WIP) to create a station that accelerates fall sprint teams prototyping activities.

The goal of Station 1 is to provide the opportunity for students and mentors to discover and explore how to:

• Run a Neo brushless motor
• Set the Spark Max CAN ID
• Update the Spark Max firmware
• Set the Spark Max idle mode
• Learn about features of the REV Hardware Client

Motors, Encoders, and Controls

This section provides resources on understanding how the Neo brushless motor works, what an encoder is, and how to control a Spark Max.

• Spectrum3847 FRC team video about how encoders work.
• Understanding PID controllers
  • PID stands for Proportional Integral Derivative and if you understand what that means then you understand setting kP, kI, and kD variables for the Spark Max.
• Tuning a turret controller simulations.
  • This webpage includes simulations of a turret, where you can change the setpoint, kP, kI, and kD values.
• Pyro Tech videos of initial station 1 setup using a Neo motor, Spark Max, and the REV Hardware Client.
  • Battery, Neo motor, Spark Max setup
  • Demo of REV Hardware Client, running on the Gizmo drive station, and powering the Neo motor.

Discovery

FRC Manipulators

A manipulator is "A device that moves the game piece from where it is to where it needs to be." This Manipulators for FIRST FRC Robotics highlights the different kinds of manipulators.

• Arms
• Lifts
• Claws
• Shooters
• And more!