News, events, and updates from Team 254.
Today, more team members met at the NASA lab to apply a second coat of paint to the floor on the upstairs mezzanine. The newly painted surface looks great and we will move the furniture upstairs tomorrow once the paint dries. Furthermore, we mopped and…
Read postToday, several team members met at the NASA lab to paint the floor of the upstairs mezzanine. Two weeks ago, we sanded the floor to remove the chipping paint and last week new paint was able to be purchased. To prevent chipping, we are using a urethane-based…
Read postHey team, First, I apologize that last weeks update didn't get put up. I wrote it, but for some reason it didn't post... So, last weekend (12/4 specifically), teams 254A, B, and D competed in the Pan Pacific tournament, and 254C, E, H, and S competed in…
Read postOn December 11th, 254D and 254H traveled to San Ramon to represent Bellarmine at its fifth tournament of the season. After technical difficulties with the field and limited time, the teams played 3 qualification matches leaving 254D with a 1-2 record and 254H…
Read postWe had a meeting on Thursday at Bellarmine, in which we covered a lot. By this week’s meeting, we will have finalized the programming team’s organization into the two groups, and everyone will have their assignments. We have split the team into two groups,…
Read postFor this week, no meeting was held. At the large team meeting I personally contacted everyone who has not turned in their assignment. In addition, I gave them the names again so that they can go back and check. Finally, someone on the archiving team agreed to…
Read postFriday the 10th marked our third and final CAD Friday and our final FRC Friday of the semester. We had a great time and started to explore some of the more advanced assembly and sketch features of SolidWorks. Although it would have been nice to have more time…
Read postThe animation team began making a game for this year's vex animation challenge. The rules of the animation challenge are: http://forum.robotevents.com/design/challenge/detail/94 Here are the rules to our game: http://team254.com/images/stories/the%20field.png…
Read postThis past weekend, the Bellarmine Robotics Team 254 once again stretched itself to the limit, entering two separate tournaments 3,000 miles apart. At Fairfield, CA, 4 Bellarmine VEX Robotics teams competed in the 2nd annual Vanden High VEX Regional, waking up…
Read postLast week a meeting was scheduled for Thursday, but not enough people showed up, so it didn't happen. I have personally contacted everyone on the team to remind them of their assignments and the meetings.
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