News, events, and updates from Team 254.
This is the second post, of a series of posts, related to the delicious baked goods eaten at the lab. We love baked goods and yummy foods. In response to this, we will be posting the recipes of some of the treats brought to the lab. The second recipe is a…
Read postPrototypes Shooter Today we made a few more changes to the shooter. We decided to return back to the larger, treaded wheels. Students disassembled the shooter and retreaded the wheels. Students also added snapring grooves onto the shafts. The shooter just…
Read postPrototypes Shooter Several changes are being made to the shooter prototype. First, students began installing smaller diameter wheels in place of the larger diameter wedgetop treaded wheels. This is because the smaller wheels would have lighter weight and…
Read postShooter The shooter retained most of its current form in terms of design, some new pieces were just added on. A system for indexing and stacking frisbees was designed and implemented on the prototype shooter, so that it will be able to load several frisbees.…
Read postToday was our first down day for FRC build. This post will recap a few of the design decisions and design progress so far. Drivebase Configuration There will be a square drivebase on the robot. This was decided up for the following reasons. The square…
Read postPrototyping Shooter Students have made a couple of modifications to the shooter prototype. An L channel was added, in addition to guide rails. A pneumatic piston was attached to the shooter to load the frisbees into the shooter wheels. The goal was to make a…
Read postThe team is now a week into the short 6 week FIRST Robotics build season. We've made a ton of progress on everything from design and prototyping to field construction and programming. We have built the pyramid from the field drawings and have come up with a…
Read postPrototyping Intake Prototype The intake was totally redesigned in Solidworks today. The design features multiple sets of belts to move the frisbees around. It uses belts on the bottom to increase the friction between the disc and the polycarbonate sheet. In…
Read postPrototyping Intake prototype Students continued to improve on the Intake prototype. We wanted to have the Intake prototype powered by one CIM motor. We designed a system which utilized timing belts, gears, and an intermediate roller to power both the top and…
Read postDesign Gearbox Design It was decided that a power take-off (PTO) mechanism will be implemented into our drivebase gearbox design. A power take off simply allows all the power from the drivebase gearbox to be applied somewhere else. This is achieved by adding…
Read post
