More information: Despite being an undergrad in a team of mostly graduate students, David designed the gripper hand as well as set up the haptic control system for it and the arm. He also trained each judge for an hour before they operated the robot during the 25-minute test.

Brainstormers Alum and Captain David Nguyen (in background behind operator) just helped Team Northeastern win $1M for finishing 3rd Place in the ANA Avatar XPRIZE competition. Video of their final run: https://t.co/d9XbAyivb3.

Let’s give a big #stemsquad congratulations to FIRST alum David Nguyen (alum of @FTCTeams 8644: The Brainstormers) & his peers on @NEU_Avatar for placing third out of 850 teams in the prestigious ANA Avatar @xprize robotics competition!

Thanks to 11212 Clueless and 12928 LightSaders for helping us finish as the 2nd-place Finalist Alliance at The FTC World Championships. #firstrobotics

Here is the link to the go fund me page for the SRC. Help us raise enough money to help send our FRC team to worlds with enough parts and tools! https://t.co/3qrWUABOG1

🤔 #FreightFrenzy #FTC #FIRST

Did some driving practice today...

Our scores from our first official event this year. Match 6 was our only 4-stack randomization. ☹️ Full-match video soon. #ultimategoal #ripworlds

One of our 144 solo runs practicing for V-MTI (teleop). #skystone

One of our 144 solo runs practicing for V-MTI (auto). #skystone

Our opponents knocking over our stack in our 5th match. What our OPR could have been! 🤔 #skystone #ftc

Winning Alliance at the Massachusetts State Championship today: 8644, 14039, 14079. #skystone #ftc

Stacking 12 and pulling the foundation out before endgame (oops). #skystone #ftc

21 days before our next competition and the robot is not quite ready for driving practice.

We had many reliability issues at our 1/19 qualifier but were able to score 112 in one match. Even though the 3-stone auto worked, the 3rd stone's bad placement (see photo) prevented us from grabbing the foundation. #skystone

Congratulations to our first driving team on scoring 36 minerals solo in Edison match 14. #roverruckus https://t.co/W0Zl6LaSY6

We have a new video that shows our process for building our base robot this year: https://t.co/T0pTH6MsB6 #roverruckus

One year ago: 30 hours before leaving for Superregionals. We could not figure out why i2c ports on the rev hub kept dying and disabling hub. After 2 hours with rev rep at esr, problem was likely esd through their v1 color sensor. We competed rest of year with mr sensor.

Getting ready for Mass State tournament with DefenseBot

Using FTC Blocks and drive+turn algorithms from FLL gave us a pretty reliable autonomous at the last qualifier. Hopefully it stays reliable. #roverruckus