FIRST Robotics of #Minnesota closes the 2026 competition season at Concordia University, St. Paul with MSHSL – Minnesota State High School League – Championship. The top 36 teams, ranked by their season performance, are competing today, May 16th for the title of the State Champions.
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Context: I still have the laptop I used for #FirstRobotics for 2006 and 2007 (maybe 2005), and it still has the complete development environment for those IFI controllers.
2811 just got picked for Alliance 1 at #PNW #DCMP and I'm losing my mind right now. I have been saying for *months* that we built a fabulous defense bot. Drivers don't want to hear it (they want to score points). Now defense might just punch our ticket to #FRC Worlds.
Playoffs after lunch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3X4yqNg-88
About to celebrate the *TRUE* New Year. Counting down to the release of the 2026 FIRST #Robotics game. At #Kickoff in Vancouver, WA with teams from around the #PDX area.
18 hours until the #FIRST #KickOff 2026.
I'm so pumped!
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I'm still looking for a solution. I have a fuzzy idea. Please, someone, tell me that I'm wasting my time and there's already a well established solution for this problem.
My idea is that since we have only these 3 degrees of freedom we should use that and somehow add constraints. Or in other words, since the robot can only move on a flat surface then the solution doesn't have to be as comprehensive as 3-dimensional #HandEyeCalibration. Even though the camera looks at a 3d space, the target, if it's fixed in place, or more precisely, the measurements of it make up a 2-dimensional plane in that space. From those measurements we can find the equation of that plane in the camera coordinates. Which will give us the roll and pitch of the camera mount.
However, we don't know the yaw yet. We can't be sure if the camera is looking exactly forward, or at what angle, relative to the robot's kinematics. To find the yaw we would have to match the set of points where the camera saw the target with the points where the robot thought it was at that precise moment. Both sets of points are 2-dimensional. So matching them should be similar to or exactly finding a #homography between the two planes...
Would that homography matrix also hint us about the offset from the robot drivetrain's kinematic center and the camera mount?
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This amazing #firstRobotics team of exceptionally bright kids is confident they can succeed this upcoming 2026 competition season. But they need some help to participate in two tournaments in #Minnesota.
I vouch for this incredible #STEM program called #FIRST that teaches kids not only how to build robots but also innovate, solve problems, manage budget, communicate, and many other skills useful in real life.
This team is run by high school students, their parents, and volunteer mentors with no financial support other than donations. Please consider #giving some help to these awesome kids this #thanksgiving season. Or just BOOST this post, that will help too. THANK YOU!
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