Background Since last summer, my main hobby project has been developing my reverse engineering skills by tearing apart Pokémon GO and seeing what I could learn. I’ve played this game since it was ...

Background Since the creation of lucky trades in Pokemon GO, there has been an obscure mechanic known as “Guaranteed Lucky Trades” that not many people understand. This is different from “Lucky Fr...

WiCyS CTF 2023 This weekend I participated in the 2023 RIT Women in Cybersecurity CTF challenge. Overall it was pretty fun, and I ended up coming in first place, winning the grand prize of a new w...

Introduction Over the past few months, I’ve been working on developing a system to scan and map Pokémon GO spawns (among other things) for my local community. I don’t play enough to really take ad...

Prototyping For our Worlds robot, we wanted to move back to a flywheel design after running into some issues with our slingshot. We started by looking at what some other teams had done and decided...

This is our team’s engineering notebook as of States 2023. We declined to update it further after this. </embed>

Doom on the V5 has existed for around 5 years at this point, I believe the original project was by sealj553. This original port of doom to the V5 required both an SD card, and was also limited by ...

V5 Addrled VEXos 1.1.2 introduced a new ability to control WS2812B addressable LED strips directly from the ADI on the V5. Previously this was semi-possible by bit-banging with APA102C strips, but...

After reffing at my fair share of VEX tournaments in recent years, I’ve come to determine that I’m really not a fan of the web interface that is used to start/stop the match timers. Holding a phone...

Sylib Sylvie’s C++ Library For V5 Features Easy WS2812B Addressable LED control Accurate motor velocity measurements Template for making custom velocity controllers Many kinds of pre-...