Our team had a great time demonstrating our robot at the Duluth Huskies baseball game on June 11th. The Huskies pulled out an awesome walk off win in extra innings. Also, we would like to thank the Lahti Foundation for their extremely generous donation!
Last Sunday our team went to the Itasca Community College for their yearly scrimmage. Along with ten other teams, DNA was able to practice driving on a field before competition next week. Unlike many other sports, the field changes every year and the majority of FIRST teams do not have access to a field. With…
The third week of build season was a milestone for us as we transitioned from designing to building the robot. Before finalizing the designs for different game piece manipulators, we tested the prototypes a great deal and worked out most of the issues. With the finalized designs, we were able to begin cutting and milling…
February 20th, 2024 Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) Week Six Update Greetings, The sixth week was a big milestone for DNA, they attended ICC which stands for Itasca Community College. 11 teams traveled to the Itasca Community College to partake in practice and friendly competition. At the event a few volunteers were asked to be judges,…
On Sunday, February 16 our team participated in the annual scrimmage at Itasca Community College. At this scrimmage we had the opportunity to practice driving, interact with other teams, and present to mock judges. At ICC we learned valuable things about our robot and how to operate it to its full potential. We will spend…
This week we have accomplished major milestones in the construction of our robot! Our robot drove for the first time after we mounted motors and completed the programming for the drive train. The programming subteam has also finished coding the main functions of the teleoperation system and have begun working on autonomous code. The build…
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…