Iowa Regional Pre-Elimination Update

Good evening! Team 4009 had an excellent experience this weekend at the Gitchi-Gummi Mini Regional hosted by team 2512, Duluth East Daredevils. We placed 2nd overall at the regional as an alliance captain alongside team 2175, the Fighting Calculators, and team 3102, TNT.

It’s that time of the year everyone! This past Saturday the 2019 FIRST Robotics Competition game was revealed by a kickoff stream that our team viewed at UMD. This year’s challenge is “DESTINATION: DEEP SPACE sponsored by the Boeing Company”. In this challenge robots are tasked with delivering cargo and hatch panels to either rocket…

Last Saturday, we had the opportunity to help a group of eleven Cub Scouts learn about robotics. We taught the Cub Scouts about the robots we built and the process we use to build them. After, we helped every Cub Scout create a scribble bots using plastic cups, markers, motors, and lots duct tape. Lastly,…

Just a reminder to all our friends, fans, and supporters… If you are shopping at Amazon this holiday season, by using the site Smile.Amazon.com (and selecting Duluth Robotics Inc. as your charitable organization), Amazon will donate a portion of the proceeds from your order to our team. [Note: Smile.Amazon.com works exactly like Amazon.com in every…

March 4th, 2024   Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) Week One Competition Update  Greetings, With the end of DNA’s first competition at the Double DECCer event held at the DECC in Duluth, Minnesota, they would like to thank all of their supporters. In the Lake Superior Regional, they placed 21st out of the 55 teams attending, were…

Week Two of build season was very eventful. Our design and build teams refined robot components to meet our strategy goals and began solidifying prototypes. The programming team has started learning about a new, lightweight, and powerful motor. It is the first brushless motor designed for FRC and is lighter and more powerful than traditional…