A gif of the robot picking up boxes.

Remembering FRC: The 2015 Season

Posted by By August 31, 2020Tags: ,

“The FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is an international high school robotics competition. Each year, teams of high school students, coaches, and mentors work during a six-week period to build robots capable of competing in that year’s game that weigh up to 125 pounds (57 kg). Robots complete tasks such as scoring balls into goals, placing inner tubes onto racks, hanging on bars, and balancing robots on balance beams. The game, along with the required set of tasks, changes annually” (“FIRST Robotics Competition.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 14 May. 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRST_Robotics_Competition).

A gif of the robot game.

Developing An Arcade Game About Robots

Posted by By July 21, 2020Tags: , ,

During college I was initially focusing on an emphasis in web-based game development alongside programming. For that purpose, I created several games in JavaScript.

This game simulates the 2018 FIRST Robotics Competition game. The goal of this game is to pickup yellow cubes and place or throw them on the blue side of one of several seesaws. While there are more cubes on your side of the seesaws, you get +1 points per second. There is an opponent that will attempt to place cubes on their side of the goals. You have 60 seconds to score more points than your opponent.

It can be played in any modern browser here: https://pycee.github.io/Firebears-Power_Up

A gif of a robot throwing a ball.

Remembering FRC: The 2014 Season

Posted by By June 15, 2020Tags: ,

“The FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is an international high school robotics competition. Each year, teams of high school students, coaches, and mentors work during a six-week period to build robots capable of competing in that year’s game that weigh up to 125 pounds (57 kg). Robots complete tasks such as scoring balls into goals, placing inner tubes onto racks, hanging on bars, and balancing robots on balance beams. The game, along with the required set of tasks, changes annually” (“FIRST Robotics Competition.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 14 May. 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRST_Robotics_Competition).