Welcome to the official SDA Robotics (Team Paradox) website!

Team Paradox Robotics (TPR) is a FIRST robotics team from San Dieguito Academy in Encinitas, California. FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), was founded in 1989 to inspire students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math. They do this by having students work together with professional engineers and scientists to build a robot. Every year there is a new game with new tasks for the robots to accomplish. The game is revealed early each January - then we have six weeks to design, build and test our robot before it is shipped away for competition. 2007 was our rookie year, and 2008 is shaping up to be a great second run.

Journal - 2/11/08

The programming team has met the majority of it's goals. Under mostly my jurisdiction, the autonomous mode program is more or less complete, requiring only minimal tweaking to reach competition readiness. The Infrared transmit/receive function is fully operational, and the robot is completely drivable with the IR remote. Also, the robot is capable of driving on its own within the confines of the field, and requires just minor tuning in terms of speed and turn radius. On the Operator Control side, headed by Alex, the program is in a similar state of completion. All functions in the arm are coded and complete; we are waiting to test the arm raise/lower code and are ready to begin coding the steering wheel once that part arrives. Overall, we are doing quite well and hope to be done by mid-week.

- Bryan

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Picture Gallery

We're currently looking for any pictures of the 2008 preseason, so, those of you with an interest in photography, here's your chance! If you have pictures you want uploaded, give them to me on a CD or flash drive, or you can email them to me. For the rest of you, go have a look at the spiffy new gallery.

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