FRC Team 5805, SMbly Required, at Santa Margarita Catholic High School. I joined as a freshman, captained the JV team in 10th grade, and have led varsity programming since.
What I do
Drivetrain, every mechanism, the autos, and the vision that tells the robot where it is.
I ported our AprilTag localisation from Python to C++, built autos in PathPlanner and Choreo, and turned what we kept rewriting into Catalyst.
Event record from The Blue Alliance.
Book IV · 2026 offseason
Our build of Team 581's REBUILT design, and the first competition robot on Catalyst 2.0 for FIRST's new Systemcore controller. It debuted at SoCal Showdown in October 2026.
Scroll, and it comes apart.
Shooter
A 4 in stainless flywheel spun by four Kraken X60s, with a hood that aims from 13 to 45°. It shoots out of the back of the robot.
Teardown
Hood, shooter, intake, hopper, floor and drive base, lifted off in the order the bolts come out. The model is the robot's own CAD.
Intake
The hopper slides out 300 mm with the intake on its front, and holds about 60 balls.
Drive base
Four swerve modules, the battery and the power distribution, with everything above them lifted away.
Code
Every mechanism on Numbers is a Catalyst builder, running on Systemcore with WPILib 2027.
The robots
Since 2025 each robot is named for a Book of the Bible. Drag the models to turn them any way you like.
A big-dumper, three-and-a-half-ball-wide shooter spun by four Kraken X60s, fed by a slapdown intake with an extendable hopper. Finalist at Port Hueneme and semi-finalist for the Orange County Leadership Award. Disassembled in September 2026 for parts.
The offseason breakout: a back-loaded cycler with a deep climb. Won Beach Blitz and made the final at SoCal Showdown. Its parts went into the robots after it.
An elevator-based, side-loaded cycler that climbed deep. Won the Ventura County Regional from the 49th seed, 5–0 in the playoffs. Decommissioned in September 2026.
Photos
Photos from Team 5805.