News, events, and updates from Team 254.
Wiring Today, we continued wiring the robots. The competition robot is coming along nicely and is nearing completion. It should be completed in the next few days as soon as our remaining orders come in. Manufacturing Today, the CNC team was lightening gears…
Read postFirst of all, I apologize for not putting a post up last night. I got home late and forgot to grab pictures off the camera before leaving and thought that a blog post without pictures might be a bit boring. Anyway, today was our big weekend of wiring the…
Read postToday, we got parts back from both the anodize and powder coat shops and began assembling and wiring the frames. Our sponsors are the best, allowing us to get frames powder coated in 1.5 days so that we can catch up on our schedule.
Read postCurrently we have finished all the scenes of the VEX animation besides the last one of the gameplay. We will render the 3rd through 5th scenes of the animation tonight and have them all posted to the Dropbox in the morning. The gameplay scene is being…
Read postPrototyping Today, the prototyping group worked on their minibot design. The minibot is coming together. However, we have hit a setback in that one of our motors has burned out and we need a replacement. Manufacturing The manufacturing team was hard at work…
Read postManufacturing Today, we received all of our parts back from the welding sponsors. All of the welds look great and beautiful and we were able to begin assembling parts. The frames are being brought to the powder coating sponsor early in the morning and will be…
Read postManufacturing Manufacturing is really in full swing in N246. We are churning out new parts every hour and the horizontal bandsaw hardly stopped cutting stock today. We should have a productive week ahead. Prototyping The minibot prototyping group continued to…
Read postManufacturing The manufacturing team was hard at work today on the mill, lathe and CNC mill. We made countless shafts and spacers, several major CNC'd parts that need to be powdercoated and worked on endcaps and the elevator second stage side rails on the…
Read postToday was our second day off of the season. We're trying to take Sundays off so that team members have time to get all their homework done and just take a break from robotics. Although there was no regular meeting at the lab, our sister team 1868 was meeting,…
Read postProgramming Today, the programming team was hard at work on a number of projects. Their PID control of the robot is starting to work aweseome and the robot is at the point where it can traverse the whole field while only turning 1° (this translates to a ~1"…
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