Roland Breise Engineering Portfolio

FIRST Tech Challenge 22-23 Season & Robot

This was one of the most intense and rewarding engineering challenges I’ve taken on. I served as both the head coder and lead engineer for our robot, which went on to win the 2022–2023 FIRST Robotics World Championship and the prestigious Inspire Award. Our season culminated in Houston, where we competed against the best teams in the world. I was responsible for the full codebase, including autonomous routines, driver control systems, and computer vision — all written in Java. I also helped lead the design process and coordinated the integration between mechanical, electrical, and software subsystems.


Our engineering portfolio was a key part of earning the Inspire Award. It showcases our team’s process, outreach, technical documentation, and iterative design cycles. You can view the full portfolio here. You can also view the full CAD of this robot here.


This experience helped solidify my passion for large-scale, interdisciplinary engineering projects where innovation, leadership, and technical precision come together. It also taught me the importance of communication and documentation, skills I now carry into every project I work on.

FIRST Tech Challenge 21-22 Robot

I was responsible for overall design as well as design and implementation of all armature. I also did all the coding in Java including Computer Vision and Holonomic Drive control. This robot was ranked #3 in our region and #28 in the world.

Short Video Demoing the Robot Capabilities
Fully Articulated Functional CAD Model. Click HERE to access the OnShape Document

Torrey Parking App

My High School hired me to create a new app to help manage parking at the school. This one taught me how to balance the evolving needs of multiple stakeholders including the Head of School, Head of Security, Head of Parking, and Innovation Lab Director. The project is pending possible funding from the Torrey Explorers Fund. The live, web-based app is here but without login credentials you will only see the daily parking availability screen for Juniors. I used Amazon AWS Amplify to create a real-time, online database distributed across all client devices with background synchronization. The UI was created in the React framework. Below are some screen shots that show you other aspects of the UI.

Screen shots of mobile student UI
School Staff Administration UI with sample data
School Staff Administration UI for adding/editing students

Torrey Schedule App

This mobile device native app helps students in my high school to keep track of complex “block-oriented” class schedules which change day to day and week to week. In inherited this project from a previous student and was commissioned by my High School to bring it up to date with the current year scheduling algorithms. I’d like to expand it to other schools. This is a React Native app that you can access in the Apple and Google Play stores. Here are some screen shots.

Screenshots of mobile student app

Patent Pending for Chemically Heated Placemat

I was part of a small team the prototyped a chemically heated placemat intended to be used in food services. I created 3D a model, helped draft the chemical reaction that holds heat for hours, and tested prototypes. Here is the link to our currently pending patent application

RoboCamp

RoboCamp was a small business I started to provide a summer camp experience for younger kids interested in Robotics. This is a great example of how I like to combine my love for engineering with entrepreneurship in a way that gets more of my generation involved in STEM. Here is the website. The camp was a great success and I hope to host it again this coming summer.

Escuela Robotica del Choco

Another great example of my mission to spread technology far and wide is this project where we partnered with researcher Alli Spring at the University of Edinburgh to help develop beginning robotics instruction for kids in post-war transition countries. Our initial work is in Columbia and we hope to expand to Sri Lanka.

La Jolla Country Day School Display Board

In this project I designed and fabricated a large high tech billboard for La Jolla Country Day School with a $48,000 budget, completed the code architecture & designed the build. Here are some images of the work in progress.

World Champion Lego League Robot

This was some time ago, but it’s still fun. Here is a short video of our robot (I designed about 50% of it) that won the First Lego League World Championship out of ~36,000 teams from all over the world.