Spark Motors #32646

Spark Motors

FTC Robotics Team 2025 — Engineering, Innovation, One Robot at a Time

Welcome to the Spark Robotics team. We are a team dedicated to engineering, strategy, and continual improvement. Our mission is to design reliable robots, develop strong technical skills, and compete with professionalism and creativity throughout the FTC season.

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This year's FTC: DECODE

The FTC DECODE game centers on collecting spherical “artifact” game pieces, scoring them in elevated and floor-level goals, and completing field-navigation tasks guided by AprilTags. Teams must balance efficient intake and shooting mechanisms with precise autonomous routines to earn early-match points. Endgame involves positioning and completing decode-themed tasks for significant bonuses. The challenge rewards reliability, accuracy, and consistent scoring cycles across tele-op and autonomous.

Robots and human players work together to score purple and green artifacts into their alliance’s goal, then build a pattern on their ramp based on a randomly-selected motif shown on the obelisk. The match starts with a 30-second autonomous period where robots decode the motif and score, then shifts to 2 minutes of driver control where teams collect and launch artifacts. At the end, alliances try to return their robots to base, and if they completed the correct pattern, they earn extra points.

Restrictions

- Starting size must fit inside an 18″ × 18″ × 18″ cube.
- After match start, expansion limits: max 18″ × 18″ horizontally.
- Vertical expansion limited to 18″ normally; up to 38″ in some cases.
- Expansion must be physically limited, not software-limited
- No intentional part detachment
- No damaging traction devices
- No pneumatic or gas-powered systems
- No suction or floor-grabbing mechanisms
- Maximum of 8 motors and 10 servos

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Spark Motors is an FTC robotics team made up of eight passionate teammates — Kevin, Anson, Dylan, Steven, Terry, Nelson, Felix, and Larry. We’re a group of builders, thinkers, and dreamers who love turning wild ideas into real, working robots. Whether it’s coding late into the night or troubleshooting before a match, we’re always learning, laughing, and pushing each other to do our best.