THE MIDNIGHT MECHANICS
Built After Hours
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.
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
- Drivetrain
- SDS MK3 Swerve Module
- Top Speed
- 15.6 ft/s (4.75 m/s)
- Shooter
- Double + ~8 fuel/second
- Intake Rate
- 10 fuel / second
Our robot code is open source.
Sixteen consecutive seasons of robot code are public on GitHub. The code was C++ from 2011 to 2015, and 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.
Sponsors
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