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FIRST Robotics

Designed, fabricated, and tested competition robots with FIRST Robotics Competition Team 461, contributing strategy and technical leadership.

RoboticsMechanical DesignManufacturingPrototypingLeadership
Front view of the FIRST Robotics alpha robot during testing
Final FIRST Robotics competition robot mechanism and structure
HERO / 01Alpha Bot + Final Bot
01 / OVERVIEW

Four years of competition-robot development.

My work spans mechanism CAD, manual and CNC machining, laser cutting, FDM printing, swerve-drive integration, field testing, strategy, and team leadership.

02 / MECHANICAL DESIGN
CAD view of a linkage designed for the 2025 FIRST Robotics REEFSCAPE season
02 / 01REEFSCAPE Linkage Design
Perspective CAD assembly of a robot mechanism designed for the 2025 FIRST Robotics REEFSCAPE season
Front CAD view of the REEFSCAPE robot mechanism and belt routing
02 / 02REEFSCAPE Mechanism Design

For the 2025 REEFSCAPE season, I iterated linkage and mechanism designs through CAD, fabrication, and testing.

03 / BUILD + TEST
FIRST Robotics swerve-drive chassis under construction in the workshop
03 / 01Robot Construction
03 / 02Swerve Testing
03 / 03CNC + Prototype Testing

Construction and field tests covered swerve-drive integration, CNC fabrication, and mechanism iteration.