Long time since a post on the blog! 

If you are interested in presenting, please RSVP here.

The Nanites are organizing their first TECH Talk, set to pilot on May 4th, at Intel (Hawthorne Farm Campus Auditorium) from 1-5pm.

Everyone is invited to this STEM extravaganza - come see both professionals and students present and have fun! RSVP and learn more at the TECH Talk website.

Live updates of match results and etc. can be found on Twitter @omsiQT!

Third week of four consecutive weeks of  robotics tournaments.

Friday 2/22 - Finished set up of auditorium, pits, and practice table at OMSI. Excited to see everyone tomorrow!

Saturday 2/23 - Successful day of running the first OMSI qualifying tournament!

Second week of four consecutive weeks of  robotics tournaments...

(Updated live from HRV High School!)


9:00am - hardware, software, field... Check, check and check! Also, free doughnuts for being the first team to clear inspection!
11:30am - finished the formal technical judging!

1:30pm - Won first three rounds... but the fishing line on scissor lift snapped. Working to fix it... this seems to be an issue.


2:30pm - Undefeated first seated team! (Second tournament this year being undefeated in qualifying rounds! Which hasn't happened in our last two years...)

5:00pm - After many exciting rounds, and one round where we forgot to plug in wires to the NXT (oops), we become the winning alliance with team #5938 the Loose Screws! Besides this, we also receive the Think award!





This was a fun & exciting tournament, next up: the OMSI Qualifying Tournament we are hosting on Saturday, February 23rd!

Working alongside professionals, administrators, and teachers, the Nanites have put two computer science classes on the Lincoln High School's Course Guide for the 2013-2014 school year! 

Lincoln hasn't had a computer science related class in years, so this is exciting news!

View the entire course guide here. (Pg. 47 lists the CS classes)

Thus starts the first of four consecutive weeks of robotics tournaments...

At their first tournament of the season, the Nanites won all of the first five rounds of the competition and end up as captain of the second team of four in the semi-finals. Partnered in an alliance with the Tiger Team (4586) and the Dead Ringers (3535), the Nanites finish off the day by winning the game competition. Additionally, the Nanites also won the Inspire award and look forward to the qualifying tournament at Hood River next week!

The Nanites are going to their first qualifying tournament this weekend! The tournament will be on February 9th, and will be held at St. Helens High School. We're working on some final additions to the robot, and hopefully it will all be ready for the weekend. Looking forward to having a great time on Saturday!

We are excited to announce that our team will be hosting an ORTOP Qualifying Tournament this season! The event will be at OMSI on February 23rd, and we are looking forward to seeing and meeting the wonderful members of the Oregon FTC community. If you or anyone you know is interested in volunteering at this event, we welcome and encourage your help. Feel free to comment on this post with your contact information, or to email us at nanites4092@gmail.com

The Nanites can't wait for the tournament season to start!

At the 30th Annual Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, the Nanites were honored to conduct a paper presentation entitled "Engineering Quality in the Robotic World". The presentation at the World Trade Center was well-received by members of the professional software community; the Nanites discussed their experiences in FIRST robotics throughout FIRST LEGO League and FIRST Tech Challenge, the error and inaccuracies of the sensors initially used in FTC and the Nanites' solutions to the problems of unreliable orientation and position information.

After being set up months ago, looks like the Forest Heights Robotics Center is continuing to invite people to get involved in science and engineering. There have been a couple open houses, gathering many interested people, and now a summer camp is being started up.

If any of you live in the Forest Heights (NW Portland) area, you might be interested in a upcoming FREE robotics day camp, right in your local Forest Heights Village Center. Started by one of the local teams here in Forest Heights, this week long camp will introduce kids (ages 9-14) to the basics of robotics and the amazing FIRST LEGO League program.

For more information, as well as sign up, click below:
http://robotcamp.yolasite.com/

Limited spots, hurry to sign up!

The Nanites helped write an article to help introduce robotics to their local community!

http://www.fhhoa.com/news/national-robotics-week-comes-to-forest-heights/

The actual article published in the newsletter can be found on pg. 16 here:

http://www.fhhoa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/April2012newsletter.pdf

(edited Feb. 17th 2012)

Hi everyone!
I've created a CAD model for the FTC Chain Sprocket (to go with the outer and inner chain models we've made previously), for the software PTC/ProE. (:
Click the image preview below to download...

Visit our site's PTC CAD Models Page for other CAD models made by our team. (:

Here's our submission for the FTC Promote award, that follows this year's theme "I'm going to change the world"!

I'm going to change the world...

Find out more about FTC and what we do on our website:
http://nanites.zymichost.com
and also view our other videos on Youtube:
http://youtube.com/nanitesvideo

(edited Feb. 13th 2012)

Hi everyone!
I've now also created a CAD model for the FTC TETRIX Inner Chain to accompany the outer chain, for the software PTC/ProE. (:
Click the image preview below to download...

Visit our site's PTC CAD Models Page for other CAD models made by our team. (:

(edited Feb. 13th 2012)

Hi everyone!
I've created a CAD model for the FTC TETRIX Outer Chain (inner chain coming soon!), for the software PTC/ProE. (:
Click the image preview below to download...

Visit our site's PTC CAD Models Page for other CAD models made by our team. (:

After deciding that our qualifying tournament robot wasn't quite up to part, we've now decided to start fresh. 3 weeks left on the clock... hopefully we can pull this off. :)

Other updates, we've raised over $600 from the Pizzicato and Pastini fundraisers! Thanks to all who came and supported Lincoln's robotics programs!

And finally, for those teams also going to the state competition, good luck, and see you there!

Do you live in the Portland area?

If so, please come by to PSU (Portland State University) campus' Pizzicato, as a percentage of their profits for that day will go towards Lincoln High School! (This includes all our robotics programs - FTC, FRC, and MATE)

Save the date, it's coming soon!
This Tuesday, January 24th, 2012, ALL DAY!

- The Nanites Robotics Team