Project 03

VEX Robotics

Team 3388S, Sir Winston Churchill, Calgary. Team lead for mechanical design and build, plus club president.

  • Team lead
  • mechanical design
  • PID + odometry
1stProvincial Tournament
Worldschampionship qualifier
Top 10national
Top 4%of 20,000+ teams
10+competition awards
$4180sponsorship secured

Role

Mechatronics engineer and team lead: owned mechanical design and the build from prototype to competition robot. Also served as SWC Robotics Club president: assigned 50+ people to events, ran weekly meetings, and mentored newer members on CAD, coding, and structure.

Sponsorship

Secured over $4,000 in industrial and engineering support from Micro Precision and Armor Alloys: machined and material sponsorship for competition parts.

Mechanical

CADFull robot prototyped and designed in Fusion 360
PowertrainCustom gearboxes, power take-off (PTO)
SubsystemsPneumatics systems, flywheels
FabricationLaser-cut acetal components

Software

ControlTuned PID for drive and subsystems
LocalizationOdometry for position mapping and accurate autonomous routines

The robots

Driver-skills run at Provincials.

Provincials

Team 3388S holding the provincial champion banners
Alberta Provincial Champions.
Competition robot
Competition robot.
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