I served as Captain of Vex Robotics Competition (VRC) team 750R, the Royals, for the 2018-19 season. I was also the mechanical lead, so I was responsible for organizing and supervising the design process, iteration, and testing of the robot mechanisms.

I worked on every part of the robot in our first iteration, primarily a linear puncher design for launching the balls and the rubber band roller intake that doubled as mechanism for flipping caps. We qualified to the World Championships through our robot skills score, and between State Championships and Worlds, we changed our design to a single flywheel. In the second iteration, I worked primarily on our new drivetrain and chassis as well as integrating the flywheel with a new roller intake system and a new mechanism to flip caps onto posts.

First Design (New Jersey State Championships)

Second Design (VEX World Championships)

I was the president of our robotics club, consisting of 6 teams (750SBCREW), during the 2019-2020 season. I also continued to serve as the mechanical lead of 750R.

End of Season Design

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I created the concentric frame design for the movement to keep all rotations on the same axes. I wrote Python software that communicated through the Arudino's serial connection to write commands to the Arduino to move the servo motors and read sensor values.

We created a game based on the camoflauging behavior of cuttlefish. Cuttlefish use a combination of different patterns overlayed to become camoglauged in the ocean. We used transparent films with printed patterns overlayed in a circular frame to achieve a similar effect, challenging kids to try to replicate patterns on pattern cards and/or create their own patterns. We chose patterns that would become dynamic when they were slid past each other to get kids interested in visual design and the math behind the patterns as well as about cuttlefish themselves.