Hey everyone! The Automatons are having a fundraiser at Pieology! Details are on the picture below. Make sure to mention our name while paying!
Hello, everyone! Thanks for your continued support, because build season is finally here!
Last Saturday was Kickoff – for those not in the know, Kickoff is the day that we FIRST Robotics teams get our yearly challenge. It’s a pretty big event in the FIRST community, since it gives way to build season, which is six weeks of labor-intensive planning, building, and testing!
This year’s challenge is called Destination: Deep Space, sponsored by the Boeing company. The game animation, which details how gameplay works, is as follows:
Basically, robots must be capable of carrying at least one of two objects, the “hatch panel” (donut-shaped object with velcro) and the “cargo” (kickball), and placing them in succession onto those rocket-shaped structures to ensure that cargo is securely “stored” on these ships. This year’s game also presents a new challenge; instead of Autonomous mode, where robots must run on preemptively programmed code, Deep Space has Sandstorm mode, where robots can be driven as usual but the drivers’ vision of the field is obscured. Robots also must find a way to climb onto elevated platforms at the end of the match without the help of any velcro or support bars. After Kickoff, we had a very productive strategy session, and we’ve already started on building the robot. We can’t wait to show it to you!
In the meantime, be sure to check our Twitter for updates (and memes).
– Scotbot
Hey all! We here at HPSH Robotics are happy to announce how well we were able to perform at our latest regional, the Medtronic Foundation Regional. We placed 5th overall and went to quarterfinals with our alliance partners, the Governors and Blaze Robotics. We’re also ecstatic to mention that our lead programmer, Alexis Lipstein, was one of the finalists for the Dean’s List Award. Unfortunately, we were unable to achieve our goal of winning a blue banner, and therefore this means the end of the season for us. We’d like to thank all the people who worked hard on our team in build, programming, strategy, business. We’d also like to thank our alliance partners team 3745 ,the Governors, and team 3184, Blaze Robotics.
Here’s how we did in all our matches:
| Match | Red Alliance | Blue Alliance | Scores | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qualifications | |||||||||||||||
| 5913 | 4229 | 3058 | 2181 | 3298 | 2823 | 254 | 425 | ||||||||
| 2232 | 4664 | 2823 | 2052 | 5637 | 2509 | 131 | 398 | ||||||||
| 3184 | 2232 | 2515 | 4207 | 2823 | 2508 | 117 | 393 | ||||||||
| 1816 | 5996 | 3840 | 3038 | 2825 | 2823 | 258 | 300 | ||||||||
| 2502 | 2823 | 2450 | 3298 | 2846 | 7180 | 414 | 174 | ||||||||
| 2498 | 3745 | 2529 | 2823 | 3102 | 2052 | 60 | 396 | ||||||||
| 2823 | 5172 | 4549 | 2545 | 3038 | 3839 | 458 | 190 | ||||||||
| 2823 | 3745 | 2470 | 3407 | 2532 | 7068 | 355 | 193 | ||||||||
| 6709 | 3081 | 4536 | 2847 | 2823 | 2480 | 187 | 300 | ||||||||
| Quarterfinals | |||||||||||||||
| 1816 | 233 | 3102 | 3184 | 2823 | 3745 | 354 | 111 | ||||||||
| 1816 | 233 | 3102 | 3184 | 2823 | 3745 | 476 | 251 | ||||||||
Team 3184, Blaze Robotics: https://blazerobotics.org/
Dean’s List Award Clip:
Alexis Lipstein – FIRST Robotics Dean’s List Finalist announcement at the Medtronic Foundation Regional 2018 #twitchclips https://t.co/SJSabOWypE
Congrats Alexis!#omgrobots @MNFIRSTRegional @HPRobotics @MDTPhilanthropy— Andrew Lipstein (@andrewlipstein) April 2, 2018
Video of Our Matches:
Website: https://www.hprobotics.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HPRobotics
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HPRobotics/
If you have any questions feel free to contact us.
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If you would like to contribute to the team, please use this link to contribute through GiveMN. Thank you!
We’re back and ready to compete! The Automatons (#2823) are preparing for the ‘Minne Mini Regional’ at Prior Lake High School this Saturday, November 18th. After participating in our first offseason regional at Roseville High, our new members got to experience the different aspects of competition like Scouting, Pit scouting, Pit crew, drive team, media, and even human player! It was a good day all around, and now we’re getting ready for the next one.
Many students are working hard and diligently in the various sections of our team. Build team has students learning all about what it takes to plan, design, structure, and create a robot for competition. Programming is doing their full check up on ‘Omnibus’ to make sure it’s fully functioning in time for competition. CAD is designing ways to refine our workshop and utilize more space for better organization
Business team is searching for possible sponsorship this season as well as connecting with our current sponsors, informing them about our new season as well. We also have a few students working on creating a new ScotBot mascot for the upcoming season. Finally strategy team has Zach teaching new students how important it is, during competition or build season, to evaluate and strategize how our team plans to take action amongst other robotics teams.
That’s all for now but if you want to learn more about our team or follow our progress check out all of our official channels below.
Website: https://www.hprobotics.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HPRobotics
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HPRobotics/
If you have any questions feel free to contact us.
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If you would like to contribute to the team, please use this link to contribute through GiveMN. Thank you!
Hello again!
It’s been a while since our last update, but don’t worry, we’ve been working as hard as ever. Over the summer, we focused on volunteering and outreach. Some members of our team volunteered at Thomson Reuters’ Girls in Tech program, teaching middle-school aged girls how to use Scratch and think like programmers. We also attended Thomson Reuters’ Unconference, a technology fair where we demonstrated our robot Omnibus’ abilities and learned about new advances in technology, and won a First (ha) prize ribbon for our robot in the education building of the State Fair.
We’ve also been working on fundraising for the upcoming season. Team members and mentors alike have been regularly volunteering at the U.S. bank stadium and Team Ortho races to help raise money for the team.
This season, we’ve welcomed an influx of freshman members, which puts us at over 40 student members. Since the beginning of the school year, we’ve been working hard to teach freshmen and new members about our team, be they members of the Business team, the Build team, the Programming team, or our new Strategy team. We don’t yet know what our challenge is, so Build, Programming, and Strategy have been focused on fixing up our robots from last year and preparing themselves for this year, while Business has been focusing on securing sponsorships for the coming year. Although we haven’t gotten any game information, FIRST has released a teaser trailer for this year’s game, which is called FIRST Power Up and has an 8-bit theme.
This weekend, we’ll be competing with Omnibus at the Minnesota Regional Invitational, an offseason regional competition at Roseville High School. We’ll also be at the Minne Mini on November 17th, and we’ll be volunteering at the Monster Dash on October 28th. As per usual, we’ll be having regular meetings on Thursdays at 2p.m. in Highland Park’s woodshop.
That’s all for now! Thanks for keeping up with us!
Follow HP Robotics on all of the official channels and share with your friends!
Website: https://www.hprobotics.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HPRobotics
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HPRobotics/
If you have any questions feel free to contact us.
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If you would like to contribute to the team, please use this link to contribute through GiveMN. Thank you!
Team 2823 is preparing for the kickoff of FIRST Steamworks!
With the support of our lovely mentors, we have been working diligently to teach all of our new members the skills necessary to be successful while at a robotics competition.
The build team has been working diligently on a drivable chassis along with lessons regarding electrical engineering, welding, and the basics of how to use the many tools within our shop.
The programming team has been working on programming the drivable chassis along with improving the vision processing code from last year.
CAD has been working with their mentor on a “top-secret project”, while simultaneously working on becoming CAD masters.
The business team has been working on securing grants, managing our social media accounts, figuring out our financial needs, and, as of late, fleshing out a logo for this year.
We look forward to the start of the 2017 season!
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Follow HP Robotics on all of the official channels and share with your friends!
Website: https://www.hprobotics.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HPRobotics
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HPRobotics/
If you have any questions feel free to contact us.
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If you would like to contribute to the team, please use this link to contribute through GoFundMe. Thank you!
Hey, everyone!
Our preseason is off to an electric start. We have held multiple regular meetings so far and have recruited many new members. The goal of our preseason is to build the skills that team members would need during the regular season. We do that in a variety of ways.
The build team is building the necessary skills by having new team members work with returning members to build what we call a “shadow bot.” The shadow bot is usually different every year and is primarily used for demonstration. This year it will be quite exciting and more info on that will be coming soon along with a robot reveal.
The business team is off to a great start. We are starting the year off strong with lots of fundraising and many projects that would make our team more efficient and more enriching for all of our team members. Expect a lot more from us soon.
The programming team has been using last years robot to teach new members the pillars of Java. Expect a cool demonstration from them soon. Right along with them has been the CAD team. They have been working diligently to get the shadow bot’s concept within a detailed 3D model. When that is thoroughly completed we will be releasing that.
That is all for now. Expect updates from us at least once a week from now on.
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Follow HP Robotics on all of the official channels and share with your friends!
Website: https://www.hprobotics.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HPRobotics
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HPRobotics/
If you have any questions feel free to contact us.
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If you would like to contribute to the team, please use this link to contribute through GoFundMe. Thank you!