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Competition Day

Team 1729X placed 35th in tournament and 18th in skills today, 09/27/2025. We noticed many interesting and important things about our robot and other robots.[…]

Pre Competition Meeting

In preparation for tomorrow’s competition, we met today to practice our autonomous and driving skills. We are very excited to participate in our first competition,[…]

Auton Improvements

Our action items today included: Our goal for autonomous is to score 3 blocks/balls every time, with very little error. We have been quite successful[…]

House is Built! Auton Ready to Run

Today we made lots of progress. Action items of today included: We made amazing progress on all these things, the most visible being the “house”[…]

First Draft Auton

We began working on the autonomous section of our robot today. Based on our tests, the maximum it can score is 3 balls, but it[…]

OmniMEGAN got an Upgrade!

Our updated design incorporates many extra c-channels which shield previously bare components such as the wheels and chain, and ensures durability and consistency throughout competitions.[…]

PolyCarb Problem!

Whilst going over the robot inspection checklist this weekend, in preparation for next weeks competition, we stumbled across section R25, where it can be found[…]

Park Achieved!

During todays meeting we made significant changes, and while mainly code based, a very exciting new feature is parking! We have been struggling all season[…]

Finished V2 Robot! Up Next – Competition!

Woohoo! I would like to introduce, drumroll please, OmniMEGAN! This is our innovative second generation robot which we are ready to compete with. Stats: 88W,[…]

Scoring Platform

We built the ball storage and scoring platform, which is one of the last steps in finishing our robot. We are very excited for the[…]