The 2019 FRC challenge is called Destination: Deep Space. Deep Space has three main game elements: the rockets, the cargo ships and the habitat. The game starts with a 15 seconds sandstorm phase, during which all direct vision of the field through the driver station is blocked by a black screen. To control the robot […]
On fifth and sixth of January we had our annual kick-off event. Like the last few years, we did this event in the Doe Museum in Veendam. During this event the FIRST Robotics Competition officially started. A live stream was held, on which this years challenge is revealed to all the participating teams. On the […]
On day 5 and 6 we played our last six qualification matches. Before every round, we resolved issues with software and mechanical on our robot. In our last qualification match, our robot worked perfectly. We did not make it to the playoffs, but we had the best of times. We even got to meet Woodie […]
Today we played our first two qualification matches. During the first match, it turned out that we still had some problems with our shooting mechanism. In the second match, one of our cables broke, which meant we couldn’t move for most of the match. On the bright side, our shooting mechanism seemed to be working […]
Although tomorrow is the official opening of the competition, today we got to play our practice matches. We played two matches and although they didn’t go perfectly, we did manage to massively improve our robot before the end of the day. In the evening we had a party with the other teams, before going back […]
After getting some sleep in the hotel in Dusseldorf we continued our journey to Mexico. Both our flight to Atlanta and our flight to Mexico City went by flawlessly. We just arrived at the hotel where we will be staying during the competition. The team is working hard to put the robot back together, which […]
With this year’s FIRST Global Challenge starting in just two days we went on our way early in the morning to catch our flight to Mexico City. Sadly, our flight had to be cancelled because of technical issues. We ended up spending most of the day waiting at the airport before being able to go […]
In the last two months we have continued preparations for the First Global Challenge. Among other things we have been working on our robot. Our priorities were the drive train and the mechanisms that will handle the cubes. Although we are still working on improvements, we can now also start working on some other parts […]
We are pleased to announce that we will be representing The Netherlands in the second edition of the FIRST Global Challenge. Last year we participated in the first edition and it was an absolutely amazing experience. We are really excited to participate again and we will be looking to improve on our previous performance. The […]
Today we officially ended our Power Up season. We had a meeting with the majority of our members to discuss how everything went and to talk about what we’re going to do in the off-season. As always we had a lot of fun paticipating in the FRC and we had a great time at the […]