I began my Robotics career as a new member in 2017, I was a new member and tried it out. The leader of the group did not want to teach me how to work on the robot or build anything so I quickly left. Only to rejoin a couple years later after my engineering teacher encouraged me to try it again as the old leader had left and my engineering teacher saw a lot of potential in me. I started out as a normal member helping the computer programmers with the hardware and making sure we did not have any electrical issues with the robot. The team and I quickly realized the team needed an Electrical Lead to calculate motor forces and gearbox ratios and to make sure the correct fuses were in place and to wire the robot in a way to not have a brown out in the middle of a game. I was elected to be the Electrical Lead since I was the most experienced with electronics than anyone else and I understood how different components work with one another and the downsides of certian electrical designs we had used in the past.

As electrical lead I managed and designed the entire robot electrical system and made changes based on calculations I had done to make sure the robot was the safest, and most efficient it could possibly be. I started by implementing wire management to make diagnosis on the can bus system easier. All power and CAN cables were wired without overlapping and were always fixed to a surface to prevent any moving parts from our, or other robots from damaging our electrical circuitry. 

I analyzed torque charts and determined which voltage to run motors at to get the needed output from a motor using the least amount of voltage possible, then implemented it into the programming. This saved voltage to prevent brown outs from occurring.