Alexander Young

As the primary driver during Brunswick Eruption, a FIRST Robotics off season event I was able to complete a triple balance with two other robots. This was the only one of the whole competition and helped us win the whole competition.

A snapshot of our robot jumping into its autonomous mode which allowed us to shoot to balls into the 3 point basket, push extra basket balls onto our side and push the middle bridge down to start our defensive mission.

Robot is ready to go -- roller on front sucks up basketballs that are then fed into the flywheel based shooter.

A quick view into how are pneumatic was set up, based around aluminum tanks.

A quick view of the robot in action.

A view of our motor controllers(half), made by Texas Instruments. These allowed us to control multiple aspects of how the motor reacted to different situations.

A view of our pickup system -- proved to be one of the most efficient and reliable systems out of all MAR teams.

Looking into issue with brushes that help push balls into flywheels.

Our bridge tipper in action, polyurethane on the top allowed it to slide easily as we rolled onto the bridge.

Final starting position, basketballs ready to be shot when the round starts.

Priming the robot for a finals round, were we were able to make all autonomous baskets and triple balance.

Doing a hard reboot, our robot was having watchdog errors at the time, but we were able to overcome them and win the whole Brunswick eruption competition.