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!
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…
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…
Our team suffered a major setback this week due to school being canceled for three days in a row due to the extreme cold caused by the polar vortex. We were not able to hold practice on these days and therefore could not continue robot construction. Instead, team members worked on the Chairman’s presentation and…
1 week ago, the 2016 FIRST Robotics Competition game was revealed to be Stronghold! Denfeld Nation Automation attended kickoff at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, and has been working hard ever since to complete a robot design. Robots must cross a wide variety of opposing defenses, fling ‘boulders’ into both high and low goals, and…
Week two of build season has been eventful and productive. The build team has finalized our design for the shooter portion of our robot to score in this year’s game. All of our shooter prototypes have been extremely successful, but our latest iteration has really dialed in the accuracy and consistency! The programming team has…
On Saturday, October 29th, members of our robotics team had the opportunity to connect with the community through trunk or treat. Trunk or Treat is an event where parents can bring their kids to trick or treat out of the trunks of peoples cars. Parents can supervise their kids and interact with members of the…