DSACF Meeting

Last Saturday, the 2020 FIRST Robotics Competition game was revealed during a kickoff stream viewed by our team at UMD. This year’s challenge is “INFINITE RECHARGE” powered by Star Wars. In this challenge, robots are tasked with fueling a shield generator with power cells, spinning a control panel and climbing a generator switch. Please take…

January 22nd, 2022 Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) Update for Week Two Greetings, During DNA’s second week of build season, many important tasks were accomplished. The programming sub-team worked on tuning a defense mechanism on our practice bot as well as finishing up the majority of the code for the other mechanical movements. The robot build…

January 29th, 2022 Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) Update for Week Three Greetings, During DNA’s third week of build season, the team has been working hard to finish prototyping our robot. Our sub-build teams have begun to mount motors onto the shooter, started cutting the aluminum pieces for our robot frame, and finished the climbing arm…

February 5th, 2022 Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) Update for Week Four Greetings, As we enter DNA’s fourth week of the build season, the team has been very busy with getting our robot into its final stages. All of our sub-teams are working especially hard to bring our robot to life. The build team has welded…

February 9th, 2017 Greetings everyone, Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) Update for Week 5 This week our build and electrical has been hard at work finalizing our robot frame. We have finished the Woodie Flowers Award and the Entrepreneurship Award as well. Our programming team has been experimenting with vision processing. Our graphic design team has…