2019

In 2019, I took the role of lead designer and lead fabricator for our team. This was the year I was able to put all of my focus and skill into designing and building the highest quality robot I possibly could. We won 4 quality awards and were finalists at two qualifying competitions. We made it to world championships where we also did very well.

This robot was a monument to our team's dedication to quality, precision, aesthetics, and competitiveness. It was called "a competitive work or art" by a respected and well known FIRST mentor.

This was also the year I acquired most of my experience as a leader and I had to organize the team in order to complete the monumental task of building this robot in 6 weeks. This year, due to the success of our fundraisers and the ambition of our team, we built two robots allowing us to continue testing even after our 6 weeks was up, vastly improving our code and control.

Here is a link to the 2019 challenge:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mew6G_og-PI



Second Place at First Regional Qualifier

Competing at World Championships

Installing Elevator tensioners, I designed them to look like Pi symbols and I made them .31415 inches thick (realistically .314ish inches)

Second Place at Second Regional Qualifier

Demo slow motion of how the disk grabber works, Pretty simple, IR Sensor actuated, 3rd iteration, this one allows or largest amount of slop in pick up positioning

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Me being sleep deprived and also having the time of my life

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Built a second robot for testing purposes, really tested our manufacturing chops

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Stair Stepper

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Every piece save the gears, bearings, and motors were machined in house by students

Electrical board neatest its ever been courtesy of our stellar electrical team this year (and the design team actually planning for it)

Pictures of our router and manual mill

I milled this pocket manually because the cutter was too small and fragile for us to risk doing it on the router.

Thank god for the router, allowed us to machine our own custom plates and remove a ton of weight from the robot