Team 812 members in matching team shirts posing together in a hotel lobby.

THE MIDNIGHT MECHANICS

Built After Hours

25
Seasons since 2001
51
Events competed
5
Championship trips
1st
FRC team in San Diego

First-generation students building engineering futures

The Preuss School UC San Diego is a charter school for low-income students. Our team is where they meet CAD, motor controllers, version control, and a hard deadline for the first time.

Students and a mentor working on the robot, with TEAM 812 on the bumper.
A student using a drill at a workshop workbench.

Big Jiawei

Built around a 360° vision-guided double shooter, a high-throughput roller intake, and an omnidirectional swerve drivetrain. A physics-based adaptive shot controller automatically adjusts shooter velocity in real time, compensating for robot motion to deliver accurate shots from anywhere on the field.

Robot Details
Team 812's 2026 competition robot, Big Jiawei.
Big Jiawei, our 2026 REBUILT robot
Drivetrain
SDS MK3 Swerve Module
Top Speed
16.1 ft/s
Shooter
Double + ~8 fuel/second
Intake Rate
10 fuel / second

Every line of code opensourced.

Sixteen consecutive seasons, all open-sourced. C++ from 2011 to 2015, Java since then.

We also ship our own tools. ShooterTargeting solves launch coefficients for a given shooter geometry. ArmSim listens on NetworkTables to simulate arm motion before the arm exists.

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Team 812 members with their competition robot at a REBUILT event.
Team 812 with Big Jiawei at a REBUILT event

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