After my involvement on Long Beach Rocketry, I became interested in electronics and programming. I joined the mechatronics subsystem on the Long Beach Lunabotics their first year competing in NASA’s Robotic Mining Competition. During my first year, I helped with hardware onboard the rover as well as integrating Arduino and Python code to utilize a PS2 controller for communication with a Raspberry Pi to control the rover remotely.
As team lead for the second year competing, I spent the majority of the summer creating different designs, performing trade studies, and training members in Solidworks and 3D printing. Although the pandemic eventually cancelled the competition as a whole, the team had a solid foundation to build off of for the third year competing.
For the third year of competing, the on-site performance of the competition was cancelled, so placements were based off of technical reports and presentations. The team placed twelfth out of over fifty universities and first out of the schools in California.
Jessica Crisantes 