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2010 season
2010, our tenth anniversary, was a momentous year for Stuypulse, Team 694. Our robot, Donovan, was one of our most successful robots ever. Team 694 won the New York Regional competition, which allowed us to proceed onto the Nationals in Atlanta. Hanger mechanism that was developed for Donovan was awarded the prestigious Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control Award. If that was not enough, we also won the Chairman’s award at the Hartford regional. In Atlanta National, our President of Engineering was also chosen as part of the first group of Dean’s List honorees.
In 2010 the team saw a large influx of “newbies”. Our new members were just as passionate and hard working as the veterans. During the six week Build Season, the team often stayed until 8 PM to work on the bot. The designs for the robot were finished within the first 2 weeks, while team pressed to build the robot in the remaining time. Our six-wheel drive train had a dropped center wheel built to allow easy movement across bumps. Our kicker was inspired by a cam design from a MIT project, and was capable of kicking soccer balls from one end of the field to the other. The team initially decided to ignore the hanging aspect of the game, but a few mentors and members persisted to build an award-winning hanger. The ability of Donovan to hang at the end of each match scored us many points and contributed greatly to our victory at the New York Regional. Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that the hook of the hanger is actually a shark hook.
While the engineers worked hard to design and build the robot, as well as the field, the programmers were also working hard at their end. Before the season began, more senior programmer volunteered to teach newbies how to use and program in Java. Then when build season kicked in, everyone was ready to go. New and old programmers worked together to convert old codes into Java, as well as write new codes for the autonomous period and the robots camera function. Multiple codes for the autonomous period were developed anticipating many different situations. A combination of rotary encoders, a gyroscope and a camera targeting system was used to auto-align our robot to the goal. Our autonomous period was one of the best at the New York Regional.
Over the course of the year, the marketers also worked hard to spread the word of FIRST. The team hosted many demonstrations in school and also around the city. We attended events such as the World Science Festival, the New York State Fair, and the Tribeca Film Festival, among others, promoting FIRST to spectators attracted by our robots. We also mentored five FRC teams and four FLL teams; many of them went to nationals. We created The Lab, a series of videos about our FIRST experience. Aside from being on YouTube, we also appeared in other media including the CBS early show, NY1, Popular Mechanics, as well as local newspapers and websites.
| 2010 Game
Read more about Breakaway, the FRC game for 2010! |
| 2010 Matches
Read the statistics of matches we participated in in 2010! |