News, events, and updates from Team 254.
by Dorian Chan and Abhishek Aditham Programming Today the programmers worked on state machines for the shooter on the robot. They have been using state machines for various subsystems on the robot in order to control and interact with them. State machines…
Read postOver the weekend, the software team was hard at work on 3 ball autonomous routines. Here's some video. Please enable Javascript to watch this video Please enable Javascript to watch this video Also, shooting on the move works quite nicely. Please enable…
Read postby Vidur Maheshwari '17 and Joey Rodoni '16 Scrimmage Complete Today was the second and final day of the scrimmage. The team had a lot of fun working with and helping other teams. 254 saw some interesting designs and robots over the past weekend. Hot Goal…
Read postThe Scrimmage By Ryan Johnson, Louis Lin, and Alex Cherry Team 604 (Quixilver), Team 192 (Gunn Robotics), Team 4765 (PWR up), Team 581 (Blazing Bulldogs), Team 1351 (TKO), Team 3501 (Firebird Robotics), Team 4990 (Gryphons), and Team 2813 (Gear Heads) all…
Read postby Vidur Maheshwari '17 and Eric Wang '17 Cleaning Routine Since the scrimmage will occur on Day 43 and 44, today's work was primarily cleanup. Most teams in the area will attend; therefore, today's main goal was to make the lab as presentable as possible.…
Read postField Construction Work began on assembling the field today. We first opened up all of the shipping pallets containing the field elements and laid them out on the field. The assembling crew started with the low goal. They assembled the two blue low goals and…
Read postby Matt MacDonald '17 Today, our team worked to address some problems in our intake and truss. We also worked on programming an important system in our robot. Intake Our team worked to install and improve our intake system. First, our team changed out the…
Read postby Quentin Delephine '17 Assembly Today the team spent a lot of time assembling both the practice and competition robots. Students added rubber bumpers to the superstructure using rivets. This prevents the front intake from hitting the superstructure and…
Read postToday was a rest day at the lab. Here's some slow motion videos from the past few days of testing at the lab. One week to go...
Read postby Abhishek Aditham ‘15 Bumpers Today, students continued construction of the bumpers. On the pieces of cut Cordura they marked 4 inch by 12 inch boxes onto which 254’s team number will later be embroidered. Machining Some students machined two pieces of…
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