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Mission:
NERDSwerve was born to fix the resource barriers that many new FRC teams face when looking to develop their own swerve drive and programs. Many FRC teams struggle to adopt swerve drive because of a financial barrier and the inability to develop a codebase and train their students on it. NERDSwerve is designed to be low cost, easy to manufacture, easy to build and maintain, highly portable and mimic exactly the control electronics environment found on a full size FRC robot. NERDSwerve aims to allow coders to directly transfer code between NERDSwerve and competition robots.
The Development Process:
The Development Process:
In 2023, an FRC 9312 student noticed the team's hardware limitations to programming progress in its rookie year, and set out to develop a small, low-cost programming platform that would solve his team's problem. Over the next year, TurdSwerve was born.
The next FRC season, he got to interact with teams from across Michigan and realized that this problem isn't just limited to NERD Spark. Teams that he talked to all had difficulties giving their programmers enough time to program with the robot. He thought TurdSwerve could be a solution.
In the summer of 2024, he expanded and published NERDSwerve, helping it grow from a hobbling triangle-shaped robot to be the capable and robust platform that it is today. He has implemented it into NERD Spark's programming training and hopes to propel NERDSwerve into becoming a widespread tool in the FRC community.
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