Tag: 2026

  • 2026 Week 4 – Revere Comp

    2026 Week 4 – Revere Comp

    The competition at Revere High School was one the DevilBotz won’t forget anytime soon. The team arrived Friday evening for the usual unload and setup, ran a round of successful tests, and headed home feeling ready for Saturday’s matches. But early the next morning, the mood shifted. Once the match schedule was released, it became…

  • 2026 Week 2 Reading Competition

    2026 Week 2 Reading Competition

    The team worked every night leading up to our first competition in the North Shore Competition in Reading MA . Students worked diligently all week to build our competition bot after testing on our prototype bot. The team arrived to Reading High School Friday evening to pack up the robot and all of the support…

  • 2026 Build Season Week 0
Robot Testing At WPI

    2026 Build Season Week 0 Robot Testing At WPI

    The team traveled to Worcester, MA to test our prototype robot at the practice field hosted by Team 190 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Access to this field gives our drive team the closest possible simulation of how the robot will behave on an official FRC field. The morning started with a challenge: the drivetrain…

  • Build Season Week -5: Expanding Prototypes, Advancing CAD, and Preparing Robots

    Build Season Week -5: Expanding Prototypes, Advancing CAD, and Preparing Robots

    Week ‑5 was defined by parallel progress across software, mechanical, electrical, and CAD. With kickoff behind us and early prototypes validated, the team shifted into refining mechanisms, integrating subsystems, and preparing both RED and BLUE robots for testing. Much of the work this week focused on translating early ideas into manufacturable designs and ensuring our control…

  • 2026 Pre-Season Week -6 
Building Momentum

    2026 Pre-Season Week -6 Building Momentum

    Week -6 brought steady progress as subteams pushed through early-season infrastructure tasks. The focus remained on validating systems, starting prototypes, and ensuring our hardware and software foundations are stable. Software: Camera Stress Testing and System Updates Software spent the week testing the limits of our vision hardware and preparing the driver environment. These findings give the…

  • 2026 Pre-Season Week -7

    2026 Pre-Season Week -7

    The first week of the 2026 FIRST Robotics Competition season set the tone for what promises to be an ambitious and energized build cycle. Our students jumped immediately into strategy, prototyping, and fabrication transforming kickoff excitement into real engineering progress. Here’s a look at what the team accomplished. Once the team locked in on a…

  • 2026 Kick Off

    2026 Kick Off

    The DevilBotz kicked off the 2026 FRC season with a fast‑paced and highly productive day. After the game reveal one group built a detailed list of every action the robot could perform, while another dug into the game manual. Students then moved into design brainstorming, ranking tasks, sketching ideas, and comparing concepts. Midway through the…