FIRST Oregon invites your students to attend the Autodesk Oregon Team Social event following Friday’s matches and award ceremony.  A great time for all and a chance to get to know other teams! FAQs: Where is the social located? At the OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry) following competition from 6:30 – 10:00 p.m. Will [...]

We’ve created some totally awesome posters for your school that you can download.   Don’t forget to give one to each of your sponsors!   Your mentors can also put them around their work!  To find out more details on the event, click here! Spread the news, Regional is coming!!!!   Small | Full Size Small | Full Size    Small | Full Size Small | Full Size [...]

997 Team 997 has been working on the electrical board for quite some time – designing and redesigning. Because of this year’s robot shape, they chose to make the board vertical and split into two separate boards. Since the board is in two parts there is an approximate 8” space in between the two sections [...]

955 This year, due to our robots design, the electronics board (or “e-board”) needs to be compact and oddly shaped. This has proven to be quite the challenge for our electronics team. In order to fit everything on the e-board both sides must have components mounted on it. Our previous methods of mounting things on [...]

3711 Well I think this wire goes here, but then again it looks like it could go here…” “Oh wait, here it is…” “What’s this wire for?” Just a few of the classic lines spoken by our puzzled mentors and students while putting together the electronics board. It was definitely a challenge for them, especially [...]

3673 When most people think of robots, they think of teenagers sitting at desks programming code for hours, or workers assembling the bits of metal that make up the structure. One of the most important positions, but constantly overlooked, is the electrical team. They create the link between the lines of code and the metal, [...]

2517 In a galaxy far, far away, we started the year with a productive team four electrical Jedi strong. Originally they were going to use PWM wires but then through research and the force of the internet we learned that CAN bus will be “about a million times better.” So we set out to make [...]

  Take a look at this week’s video from Team 4125 – Umatilla Robotics:

Read how Teams 3711, 957 & 847 are using Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S.T.E.M.) as they build this year’s robots:   3711 Three weeks into the build season, progress is slow and like something out of a nerdy reality show we are scrambling to put things together and make things work. Every good idea seems [...]