Vex Robotics Competition

With a couple of other teammates, I designed, built, and programmed a robot capable of picking up and launching multiple balls in order to turn "flags" to the correct color during a match. 

While the robot design was not as complicated as FIRST robots, Vex requires much more optimization since the season lasts the entire year. With that much time you need to make small improvements such as picking up balls from the same side you shoot from to reduce the amount of times you turn around, or programing ways for the robot to be simpler to operate.

With this mindset, we were able to win the state championship competition without losing a single match, and went on to compete at the world championship.

In the 2017-2018 season, teams had to stack cones on top of each other and place those stacks into scoring zones. Our team deviated from the large, heavy linkages that most teams decided to use, in favor of 2 degree of freedom arm that required much more programming control.

This gave us a decent amount of success, competing at the world championship competition. But the real success, was learning about PID control, and getting excited about programming, controls and how powerful they can be at controlling systems.