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January 27th, 2024   Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) Week Three Update  Greetings, During DNA’s third week of the FRC competition, significant strides were made. The team’s prototypes were tested and reworked, to allow for better playability and design. With the drive base all wired up the programmers were able to start implementing code and testing out…

This past Thursday (June 28th), DNA Robotics reenacted accepting a check presented by the KSKJ Life organization.

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…

[metaslider id=3846] On April 12th, we volunteered at the Laura MacArthur STEM Day. During this event we demonstrated our robot to elementary students as well as engaging them through discussion. We also volunteered at booths featuring different scientific experiments for the students to learn more STEM. Some of the booths we volunteered at included launching…

We have been working extremely hard through our last week of  build season with Stop Build Day being only four days away. We finished constructing all of our game piece manipulators and wired power to all the motors. With our robot built, we have been testing and tuning our code. We added encoders and a…

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…