News, events, and updates from Team 254.
Author: Andrew Torrance Machining & Assembly Students and mentors finished assembly of the intake and attached the superstructure frame. With the intake mounted to both the practice and competition robots, students and mentors plan to continue testing and…
Read postManufacturing Today, students and mentors continued work on manufacturing parts which will be anodized. These parts must be finished by Wednesday night in order to be sent to anodization Thursday, with a return on Friday. Many new materials were received for…
Read postCAD Today students went through the entire CAD and made sure that all of the necessary parts and materials to complete the robot have been purchased. To do this, he used a special feature in Solidworks that automatically created a bill of materials for the…
Read postField Assembly Today, students set up the support structures at the two ends of the field to mount the high and medium goals. They finished milling holes into the wooden support blocks and attached them to the metal and PVC pipe frame. The "blue" side of the…
Read postBumpers The wood and end-brackets for the bumpers were finished and assembled today. Afterwards some students worked on taping pool noodles to the sides of them (pool noodles are required by FRC as the official compressant in bumper assemblies). With the pool…
Read postPractice Field Assembly Without a doubt, the highlight of the day was the arrival of the official field pieces. Students spent much of the night organizing the many parts that arrived at the lab today and assembling the field elements themselves. The pyramids…
Read postField Teardown Today, students helped to tear down the team-built game elements on the field in anticipation of the arrival of official game elements. The high goal, pyramid, its top goal, the feeder station, and all prototypes (shooter, intake, indexer,…
Read postBumper Over twenty students and two mentors collaborated on measuring and cutting the wood for the bumper. Students measured the bumpers to be 5" in height and lengths of 28.25", 28", and 8" for all of the sides of the perimeter. They then went outside to cut…
Read postBumper fabric A few members measured fabric for the bumpers and measured where to properly place the team logo on them. They were careful with measurements because the ideal bumpers are more compressed than actual ones that will be. Measuring the cordura…
Read postOur robot this year is looking like it will be very short -- much like these shortbread cookies we snacked on while assembling the drivetrain and manufacturing parts for the intake. Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies 1 cup butter, at room temperature 2/3 cup…
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