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Into the Deep — Bucharest robot

A separate build for the Bucharest Twin Cup in the Into the Deep season — a different answer to the same game as the Worlds machine.

Role: Mechanical lead
Team: FTC 24500 LITBOT
Competition: Bucharest Twin CupInto the Deep season, 2024–25

Into the Deep — Bucharest robot — One-line caption: what this is and when it was taken.

The problem

Two sentences on the hard constraint this machine had to beat. Size envelope, cycle time, weight, reach, reliability — whatever was genuinely difficult. Not “we had to score points”: the specific limit that shaped the design.

What I designed

Subsystem one — what it is, and the mechanism you chose for it.
Subsystem two — same. Name the part, not the project.
Subsystem three — the interesting one.

Be specific about your own contribution, and about where it ended and someone else's began — the credits panel says who they were.

How it was made

Materials, manufacturing, iteration count. Printed vs machined vs off-the-shelf, and why. If you ran an analysis or a test to pick between two options, this is where that goes.

What went wrong

One honest paragraph. What broke, when it broke, what you changed, and what you would do differently now. This is the section recruiters and professors actually stop on — it is the part that cannot be faked. Do not soften it.

Result

Award or outcome — you already have: Bucharest Twin Cup — Precision & Purpose Award. Add the operational side too: matches played, reliability, ranking.

Gallery

CAD assembly — Into the Deep — Bucharest robot — Full assembly in CAD. Caption: what the render is showing and why that layout.

Subsystem detail — Into the Deep — Bucharest robot — The one mechanism you are proudest of, close up. Caption: what it does and what made it hard.

In context — Into the Deep — Bucharest robot — On the competition floor, with people or a field element for scale.

In progress — Into the Deep — Bucharest robot — Mid-build, a machining setup, or the failed version next to the fixed one. Optional — delete this figure if you have nothing good.