DNA’s 2020 Robot Reveal!

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…

  Hey! The robot, named Lambda Larry, has finally been bagged & tagged!

February 20th, 2023   Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) Update for Week Six Greetings Sponsors, As the time before comp diminishes, DNA ramped up preparation for our first scrimmage and competition. The Robot Build sub-team mounted a distance sensor to the robot which allows it to align with the loading station. The Programming sub-team made an auto…

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…

Week three of our build season has been very productive. Our game design team has been working hard to finalize game elements for the FIRST Game Design Challenge. We also continued to make sure that the game was simple enough for first years teams to be able to complete, but also challenge veteran teams. As…

Last night we had our annual Robot Reveal to display our progress on the robot to the public. We had a great time discussing this year’s game and our robot capabilities with our family, friends, sponsors, and other community members. We also revealed our robot’s name “Boreas”.  Boreas is the name of the Greek God…