DNA Dinner & Silent Auction

This week we reached big milestones in the construction of our robot. Our frame is now completely welded!  Students have been hard at work grinding the welds smooth. We have fabricated our climbing elements and begun preparing the top of our robot by cutting and milling pieces. The programming sub-team has finished coding the turret…

In the first week of build season, our team has been busy designing the robot for this year’s challenge, DESTINATION: DEEP SPACE Presented by Boeing. We prototyped a lifting mechanism and began CAD designing the robot frame. Our programming team has successfully implemented all of the brand new software on our prototyping robot. In field…

January 21st, 2023   Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) Update for Week Two Greetings Sponsors, During DNA’s second week of build season, many important tasks were accomplished. The robot build sub-team put together the robot frame, drive train, and worked with the CAD sub-team to finish making a manipulator in CAD and was able to complete a…

Davious is DNA’s 2022 robot, named after our Mentor Dave. Dave originally mentored for his son, but has continued to be a valued mentor even after his son graduated. Dave has spent hours with the students helping them build the best bot they can, but still claims he has learned more from the students than…

January, 12th, 2017 Greetings Everyone, Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) Update for Week 1 This week, we were given the challenge for the 2017 FIRST Robotics Competition STEAMWORKS. We have included a link to this year’s challenge here. Our first week consisted of developing a general idea on how our robot is going to function, prototyping…