News, events, and updates from Team 254.
by Nathan Duong '16 Competition Preparation: Transportation Crate The second layer of paint has been applied to the transportation crate and is now finished! Field Construction: 1 Point Goals Members of the team have continued to construct the two wooden…
Read postby Nathan Duong '16 Transportation The 5’ x 5’ x 5’ wooden crate that will be used for tool transportation in the St. Louis trip is being worked on. The first of two coats of blue paint was applied to patch the blank patches in a lighter color. Scrimmaging…
Read postby: Brenden Farrer Today at the lab, other FIRST teams, such as Spartan Robotics, came to practice with our field. The primary focus was on fixing the practice robot and Skystalker to continue driver practice with the other teams. Skystalker A "hat" was built…
Read postby Dan Ngo '17 Tasks Today, the team started with a discussion about our performance in SVR, between all of the mentors and members at the lab. During that, the team addressed most of the issues that the robot had during the tournament, which mainly consisted…
Read postby Brendan Farrer '17 This lab day was mainly dedicated to preparing for the SVR tournament and finishing up the Chairman’s binder and Technical binder. Pit Display The final touches were made to the pit display, including fixing the remote light controls and…
Read postby Samuel Buxton '16 Scrimmage Today was an eventful day at the lab. In preparation for the SVR (Silicon Valley Regional) our drivers trained against some of the best teams in the region, including 1868, 971, 192. and 776. SVR Prep Upstairs the team fixed…
Read postby Nathan Duong '16 and Josh Fluegemann '17 Pit Display The programmers of the team worked on the pit display; they primarily sought to improve the quality of the display through cleaning up the HTML and CSS of the web application. Today, they added lightbox…
Read postby Jose Moreno '17 Machining Today several students were machining several tubes and rods to be made into multiple extra intakes. Most of today, the team focused on making a new hood extender, which is now able to reach the third bolt hold, and extends an…
Read postby Ford Hooper '17 and Brendan Conaway '17 VEX State Championships Since much of the team is busy preparing for the VEX state championships, the number of team members attending was below average today. Even so, the team was able to make critical improvements…
Read postby Brendan Conaway '17 Testing Today the team did some driver training for Madera by driving around the field, scoring some goals, and practicing passing over the truss. Skystalker functioned as an opponent bot for driver practice. The air was refilled on…
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