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Robotics and Teaching

Projects building robots, mentoring students through FIRST Robotics, and creating the tools and environments that make hands-on learning possible.

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Preview for Electrical engineering systems
◎Electrical engineering systems June 25, 2025

Electrical engineering systems

Circuits control current and voltage to perform computation, signaling, and power distribution across components and boards.

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Preview for Electronics
◆Electronics June 25, 2025

Electronics

Electronics is the design and application of circuits and systems using electronic components.

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◆Industrial Automation June 25, 2025

Industrial Automation

Industrial Automation is the use of control systems to operate industrial processes with minimal human intervention.

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Preview for Mechanical systems
◎Mechanical systems June 25, 2025

Mechanical systems

Physical assemblies transfer force and motion through components such as gears and actuators under constraints of energy, friction, and material properties.

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▪Arduino

Arduino

Arduino is a microcontroller platform for building hardware and IoT projects.

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Preview for Compute hardware systems
◎Compute hardware systems

Compute hardware systems

Physical machines such as CPUs, GPUs, memory, and storage execute instructions under constraints of heat, power, and architecture-level parallelism.

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◉Computer Vision & Control Model for Robot (NI Vision + LabVIEW)

Computer Vision & Control Model for Robot (NI Vision + LabVIEW)

A vision-based robot control system using National Instruments hardware and LabVIEW — the robot sees, decides, and acts — with lessons that transferred directly to later data pipeline and real-time processing work.

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◎Construction Systems

Construction Systems

Systems coordinate projects, resources, timelines, and costs in the building of physical infrastructure.

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Preview for Embedded Programming
◆Embedded Programming

Embedded Programming

Embedded Programming is a software development for hardware systems with dedicated functions.

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Preview for FIRST Robotics FRC VPN for On-Device Testing
◉FIRST Robotics FRC VPN for On-Device Testing

FIRST Robotics FRC VPN for On-Device Testing

Built a VPN system for remote programming and testing of actual FRC RoboRIO hardware — not a simulator — and learned as much about networking latency as robotics in the process.

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