Jimmy McCosker (witherslayer67)

About me:

Hello! I am a young software developer, gamer, youtuber, aspiring computer science major. I have been developing software for years now.

Experience

FRC (First Robotics Competition):

Omegabytes 5727: Lead Programmer (2021 - 2023)
- Led the programming subteam on the Omegabytes 5727 programming team, taught programming in the off-seasons of 2022 and 2023.
- Awards:
  - Certificate of Recognition from The Rutherford County Board of Education
    - This Certificate of Recognition was awarded for the inspiring presentation made at the meeting of the Rutherford County Board of EducationThis Certificate of Recognition was awarded for the inspiring presentation made at the meeting of the Rutherford County Board of Education.
  - Innovation in Control (2022 Asheville):
    - Celebrates an innovative control system or application of control components – electrical, mechanical or software – to provide unique machine functions.
Lynk 9496: Programmer (2023 - Present)
- Programming member and one of the founding students of team 9496 Lynk.
- Awards:
  - District Championship Dean’s List Semi-Finalist (2024 Mecklenburg):
    - The students who earn FIRST Dean’s List status as either a Semi-finalist, Finalist or Winner, are great examples of student leaders who have led their teams and communities to increased awareness for FIRST and its mission. It is the goal of FIRST that these individuals will continue, post-award, as great leaders, student alumni, and advocates of FIRST.
  - Autonomous Award (2024 Mecklenburg):
    - Celebrates the team that has demonstrated consistent, reliable, high-performance robot operation during autonomously managed actions. Evaluation is based on the robot’s ability to sense its surroundings, position itself or onboard mechanisms appropriately, and execute tasks.
FNC United (Previously known as Project: Gamma) (2023 - 2024): Project Co-manager
- Founded and is co-managing FNC United, a united scouting front for every single robotics team in the state of North Carolina. The development team consisting of over 40 developers from over 20 different teams.

Other Experience:

Founder and Lead of Generation Game Studios (2022 - Present)
Junior Student Government Representative (2022-2023)
Yearbook Staff Member (2023)
QuizBowl Member (2022 - Present)

Academics

Rutherford Early College High (REaCH)

(2021 - 2025)

Highschool
Class of 25’

Isothermal Community College (Computer Science Focus / Major)

(2021 - 2025)

Associates in Science
Associate in Applied Science
Information Technology Java Programming (Certificate)
Information Technology C++ Programming (Certificate)
Information Technology Python Programming (Certificate)
Information Technology Computer Prog. & Dev. Pathway (Certificate)
Information Technology Game Programming (Certificate)

Projects

FRC

Rapid React. Robot Code (2022)
- This was the Robot Code for 5727’s 2022 Rapid React competition season bot, “Overbyte.”
- Features:
  - Falcon 500 (Powered by Talon FX) Swerve Drive Base
  - Pneumatically actuated shooter hood and intake
  - Falcon 500 (Powered by Talon FX) Flywheel Shooter
  - Telescopic Climber
- Techstack:
Scouting Omega App (2022) Not public yet…
- This was 5727’s first Scouting App, never deployed within the team, but fully functional for the 2022 season.
- Features:
  - Digital Data Collection
  - QR Code Data Compilation
  - The ability to potentially link to a google sheet for seemless data input
- Techstack:
Charged Up! Robot Code (2023)
- This was the robot code for 5727’s 2023 Charged Up! Competition season bot, “GrabAByte”
- Features:
  - Swerve Drive Base W/ Falcon 500 (Powered by Talon FX)
    - With custom kinematics, to improve accuracy of the drive base heavily.
  - 2 Jointed Arm:
    - Lower Arm:
      - 2 Falcon 500 (Powered by Talon FX)
      - Throughbore CANcoder for Absolute position for accurate feed back
    - Upper Arm:
      - 2 Falcon 500 (Powered by Talon FX)
      - Throughbore CANcoder for Absolute position for accurate feed back
    - Forward Kinematics
      - The arm works on a Forward Kinematics model, having set positions for both joints on a table of values.
  - Intake:
    - Consisted of one NEO 550
      - NEO 550 had a voltage detection function to stop the motor when we had a game piece in hand
  - LED’s
    - We had 2 long strips of LEDs on the front and back of the lower arm
      - These LEDs had a few functions
        
        To tell the driver what game piece mode it was in
        
        Yellow for cone mode
        
        Purple for cube mode
        
        To see what pitch the robot was on while auto balancing
- Techstack:
Lynk Library of Knowledge (Maintained) (2023 - Present)
- This is the knowledge base for 9496 Lynk, containing basic to advanced knowledge for the team to asorb, this is also where everything is documented within the team
- Techstack: