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Alright, schedule update:

I should (fingers crossed) be able to go to DCMP Saturday from around 2-4. I might be able to get there earlier, but I can’t leave any later.

#first alum #frc alum #first robotics #frc #first robotics competition #frc reefscape #reefscape #FRC NEDCMP #NEDCMP #I got a ride up to Springfield but I’m taking transit back to my campus and it says the last transit leaves between 4 and 4:30

Welcome to the Pits!

Typically running on 4 hrs of sleep.

Do not expect coherency.

Do expect pins.

And zip ties.

Lots of zip ties…

I’m a member of the FRC team Mojo 8085’s pit crew.

We finished our run at the 2023 Worlds as Archimedes Division Champion.

Exhausted from comps, school, and other extracurriculars, but will be posting some off-season and build season meeting until the comps start.

Also preparing for off-season events around New England.

2023 was my first year doing FIRST, so this will be a mix of discoveries and experiences, along with expectations for the coming season.

And just plain chaos. Let the chaos rain.

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Oh, and btw:

I am a member of 8085.

I will be posting about 8085.

Almost all of the members are aware of this blog.

However, this is NOT an official Mojo 8085 social media account. This is something I started up at a competition for fun and to reach out to other FRC kids.

#FRC #robotics #first robotics competition #first robotics #FRC competition #first #pit crew #mojo #mojo 8085 #8085 #FRC pit crew #NEDCMP #charged up #First champs #firstchamp #frc robotics #frc worlds

Misadventure:

We went to dinner at UNO’s at the Holyoke Mall.

The Scouting Mentor that drove me and the safety captain/technician parked at Burlington around 7:30.

The mall closed around 8.

We left at 9:15.

Burlington was closed.

We did not know this when the rest of the team left in the other direction for their cars.

A left turn and a mile walk around the circumference of the mall later we found the car.

Yay!!!!

#frc #safety captain #technician #pit crew #scouting mentor #Holyoke mall #past closing #UNO’s #lost #NEDCMP #we walk 0.2 miles #and then we walked five times more.#just to reach the scouting mentor’s car. that was parked outside the Burlington door.#da da dud daaaaa #soooooooo tireddddddddd

How I know I found my people:

Mentors: Do you want to go to an escape room or a baseball game.

Team: Escape room! Definitely escape room!

Half of Drive Team + 1 pit crew: playing games on phones

Me: Do you guys want to solve rebus puzzles?

Half of drive team + 1 pit crew: Totally!

These are cool.

I think I got this one.

Me: (I want to do the scavenger hunt but I don’t want to do it alone.)

Pit Crew and half of Drive Team:

Hey I think there are two scavenger hunts!

Really? Awesome!

Let’s do them!

Drive Team can do it while Pit are working and then you can get some while we queue.

Me: I’m in!!!

#frc #robotics #pit crew #nedcmp #frc robotics #mojo 8085 #8085 #first robotics #scavenger hunts #escape rooms #rebus puzzles #pit crew and drive team #friendship #definitely nerds

You know that feeling when you weren’t told you were going to be setting up a queue-side pit so you have to rush to set one up between matches, but the mentors and FLL students took the wrong T-stack so you don’t have your drills, hex keys, wrenches, or scissors when your swerve motor blows.

Yeah… wish I could say I didn’t know either.

#frc #robotics #pit crew #nedcmp #mentors #neo swerve #t-stack #pop-up pit #fll #FRC Robotics #we fixed it #had to borrow parts #and have another mentor run back and forth #but we got it #8085 #mojo 8085

Note to self… make sure you are walking into the pits and not the dog show prep room.

#frc #robotics #pit crew #FRC robotics #nedcmp #Big E fair grounds #dog show #we didn’t exactly get lost #the scouting mentor parked in a different lot #we say the dunkin sign and got confused #oh well

Day 2!

And we had a breakdown!

But everything is fine now!

I couldn’t sleep last night and I aged 10 years in the last 2 hours…

But we have this. We have fixed the problem. We will recover.

#frc #pit crew #robotics #first robotics #nedcmp #FRC Day 2 #8085 #mojo 8085 #I want sleep #and food #I want food.#the intake broke #and a 3D printed part #but we had extras #and a backup intake #we’ve got this

so many thiNGS TO DO TO GET MYSELF READY FOR DISTRICT CHAMPS AND I’M DOING NONE OF THEM BECAUSE I’M TOO BUSY SCOUTING

#omgrobots #FIRSTworldproblems #nedcmp #wpi #woot new england district