2010 Teams 254/968 Collaborative Build Blog
News, events, and updates from Team 254.
CAD and Prototyping Progress
Today, Team 254 prototyped a mechanism that keeps the ball in place while kicking and helps the release of the ball. We also mounted the kicking prototype onto our drive base prototype, and began to mount the holding mechanism. We completed the CAD of our…
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Today, the CAD team continued to work on the drivebase frame. The back bar for hanging was scrapped, out of concern that there would not be ample room between the bar and the bumpers for an alliance partner to get a hook in. We extended the base plate to the…
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Organization & Machining
At the lab yesterday, the team continued working on improvements to their prototype . The machining of the wheels has started, meaning we will soon be working on the tread for the wheels. Finally, the team began organizing the bins filled with old motors and…
Read postDrivebase Design & Manufacturing Progress
At the Cheesy Poof lab today, several objectives were accomplished. The gearbox design was finalized. The drivebase design moved forward, and the basic frame is set for it. It features a large tube on the back for alliance partners to hang their robots from…
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Vacuum Suction Testing
Since the ball may only roll 3 inches into the robot, we wished to study the plausibility of a vacuum holding system. In the 2008 Overdrive game, Team 1771 successfully used a mini shop-vac impeller driven by two Fisher Price motors, to posses and lift the…
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Ball Launcher Prototyping
Earlier today, RAWC students and mentors brainstormed ideas while at the high school, coming up with a few mechanisms to launch a soccer ball. A few of those ideas were actually plausable(we went forward with one). We built a launcher frame that takes into…
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Build Day 5
Today at the Nasa lab we had roughly 12 students experimenting with various prototypes for kicking/launching mechanisms. One group seemed to find particular success with a pneumatic-kicker, which was able to launch the ball just over the hump attaining a…
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Wheel Design
The wheel design has been completed. The wheels weigh 0.30lbs each and construction will begin tomorrow.
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Manufacturing Progress
Today we finished the first operation on all 140 bearing housings. We began machining the backsides of them and expect to be finished tomorrow evening or early Friday, at which point we will begin machining wheels.
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