Projects
KickerMachine2.mp4Collaboration between the Robotics Team and the Building and Trades Program
Kickball Machine
IMG_7075.MOVCollaboration between the Robotics Team and the Building and Trades Program
Ball or Balloon Catapult
SplatterPaintCatapultCollaboration between the Robotics Team and the Building and Trades Program
Splatter Paint Machine
BattingMachine.MOVCollaboration between the Robotics Team and the Building and Trades Program
Batting Machine
2019-2020 FTC Skystone Season
Our third FIRST Tech Challenge Season. This year our program grew to two teams (Team 11349 - VorTech and Team 17388 - Red Tornadoes)
Kicking Machine for Students with Multiple Disabilities
The designers of the machine (robotics students at McCaskey) working with a wheel-chair bound student.
Left to Right: Jonathan Osuna-Martinez, Christina Hill, and Anthony Tirado
Two buttons control the pin-pulling Servo.
The yellow bracket was custom designed and 3D printed as a part of the project.
2019 Air Challenge Drones
We had two teams build large drones to deliver "goods" to specific zones on a football field as well as scout out areas of interest with their camera. Teams has to hover above the drop zones using only their camera to assist with navigation and then drop objects into the buckets in the zone.
2018-2019 FTC Rover Ruckus Robot
Our third FIRST Tech Challenge Season. For more details, check out our engineering notebook.
Saying goodbye.
2018 Search and Rescue LandRover
This robot has a 2 degrees of freedom camera that projected its view of the "wreckage" back to the driver who was sitting in another room.
Accomplishments:
First Place - Land Division at the South Central Sea, Air, and Land Competition - 2018
VorTech Underwater ROV
First Place - Sea Division at the South Central Sea, Air, and Land Competition - 2017
First Place - Sea Division at the South Central Sea, Air, and Land Competition - 2018
2017-2018 FTC Robot
Our second FIRST Tech Challenge Season. This robot collected and stacked foam blocks. All my pictures and videos got deleted when I lost my harddrive :(
2016-2017 FTC Robot
This was out initial FIRST Tech Challenge Season (Velocity Vortex). Our robot collected whiffle balls and shot them into a rotating hoop. Check us out on YouTube here