A couple days ago, Mechanical Mayhem’s animation subteam submitted the team’s digital animation award entry. The countless hours they invested shine through in this award entry with great animation as well as a powerful theme summarized in the Albert Einstein … Continued
While various subteams have been busy designing, prototyping and building their parts of the robot (drive base, fuel acquisition & scoring, gear acquisition & scoring, climber), the students on the media team put together a short video illustrating what an … Continued
On January 7, the 2017 Mechanical Mayhem team excitedly piled into a crowded basement, awaiting the unveiling of the 2017 FIRST STEAMWORKS game! Robots climb up dangling ropes!?! 600 game pieces and 16 moving parts!?! Human Players are allowed on-field … Continued
On Tuesday, April 26, two dozen eager Mechanical Mayhem students and mentors piled onto a bus. The destination: St. Louis, MO! Along the way, we picked up our old friends from team Andromeda One (4905) from Ayer, MA. Together, the … Continued
On April 13-16, Mechanical Mayhem competed in the New England District Championship hosted at the XL Center in Hartford, CT. After an intense 12-match qualification phase, Mayhem held 11 wins and one loss, landing Lady Launch-a-Lot (our robot) in the … Continued
On March 24-26, Mechanical Mayhem participated in our first official tournament of the 2016 FIRST STRONGHOLD season with 39 other teams at the University of New Hampshire’s Whittemore Center. For a refresher on the FIRST STRONGHOLD game, see the game … Continued
As you can see from the brief highlights video above, our team has been working diligently on this year’s robot build, programming challenges, and game strategies, as well as video and written award submissions. We intend for our robot to … Continued
After an intensive, nine-week competition season, Mechanical Mayhem piled on a bus with Rookie All-star team Stormgears (5422) from Westford, MA, for the 22-hour road trip to St. Louis for the FIRST Robotics World Championships on April 22-25. This grand … Continued