PRE-ORDER: Thrifty Cycloidal Gearbox

For those at Worlds, swing by the ThriftyBot booth between Hopper and Johnson fields and check out our latest Thrifty product offering - the Thrifty Cycloidal Gearbox - available for pre-order now!

By Ryan Dognaux

Michigan State and World Championships pickup options

Just a reminder to folks that we’re also offering pit delivery to the Michigan State Championship! Those orders need to be in by Tuesday, April 1st.

Last day for Worlds orders will be Monday, April 7th.

By Ryan Dognaux

Thrifty Swerve Upgrades

Some new upgrades and items for those using Thrifty Swerve!

First up is our redesigned top plate - Thrifty Swerve - Top Plate v1.1 - Kraken X44 Compatible 3

After seeing the X44 motor, we wanted to give users the option of using that as an azimuth motor - so we decided to remake our top plate to add those mounting holes. Since we were already changing the design, we upgraded the top plate bearings to 6800 series and added more 10-32 threaded mounting hole options. This plate will be the new standard shipping with all Thrifty Swerve kits moving forward and the plate can be purchased separately as well for teams who want to upgrade them for this season.

By Ryan Dognaux

HTD Rolls and Elevator Updates

We have received some 25 ft rolls of 18mm wide HTD black neoprene fiberglass timing belt for folks running continuous elevators -

By Ryan Dognaux

Thrifty Tubing

We’ve received some .08" wall thickness 2" x 1" grid pattern tubing which may be nice for your robot’s elevator or other mechanisms.

By Ryan Dognaux

Some New Items

A few more items have arrived -

We also have a pre-order that’s live for the next round of elevator kits. It’s looking like we will begin receiving more parts next week and we understand some teams want to get these on order. We are trying to turn other kits that are on hand around as fast as possible to teams as well. Thanks all!

By Ryan Dognaux

Thrifty Elevator Tutorial

We’ve put an end to end video together on building the Thrifty Elevator kit for teams who may have questions, I’d suggest watching this video first along with reading the build guide on the product page:

By Ryan Dognaux

2025 Kickoff Announcement

Just in time for kickoff, here are many new products finding their way to the website today. There are a still a few stragglers incoming that we should see within the next week or two (SDS billet motor spacer for example.)

Here’s a firehose of links, happy kickoff and good luck this season teams!

By Ryan Dognaux

FRC Kit of Parts

We’ve created a 2025 KitBot section that makes it easy to find parts called out in FIRST’s latest blog post-

By Ryan Dognaux

Introducing the ThriftyCam

The ThriftyCam utilizes the OMNIVISION OG02B1B B&W CMOS 2 Megapixel (1600x1304) Global Shutter Image Sensor with OmniPixel®3-GS Technology. At full resolution, the camera will present 60 frames per second over USB 3.0.

By Sam Dare