News, events, and updates from Team 254.
Day 36: Improving Subsystems Hopper Floor Today we ordered all the the parts for the upper extension of the hopper floor and got majority of the CAD done. We will be going with 50 degree edges made out of Delrin with the first two rollers of the upper…
Read postDays 33, 34, & 35: Preparing for Competition Gear Grabber/Driver Practice We worked with the drivers over the weekend, doing basic drills like gear cycling, in order to become accustomed to driving the robot prior to the SFR Competition. We started the day by…
Read postDay 32: Continued Assembly and Programming Gear Grabber Today, we worked on designing and testing the roller gear grabber. We installed a prototype onto the programming robot, and it worked somewhat well. When we drove into a gear directly, it was always…
Read postDay 31: Continued Assembly and Programming Hopper On Monday, we worked on making the hopper more rigid as well as tackling other issues with it, including breach of size constraints and inability to actuate field hopper. We brainstormed and tested off of…
Read postDay 29 & 30: Getting Ready for Competition Season Assembly Hopper/Hopper Floor Today, we worked on solving the funneling speed issue by placing a set of 4 rollers at the end of the hopper floor and above the wedges to provide a force pushing the ball…
Read postDay 28: Bag and Tag Day Robot Progress General Assembly Today, we started by receiving news that after visiting 3 anodizing places, we could get parts for our hopper and hanger anodized for the competition robot. After calling, we knew that we would receive…
Read postDay 26 and 27: Continued Assembly and Programming Assembly Hopper Today, we made sizable progress on the hopper. We made an initial prototype which we iterated upon to account for unforeseen difficulties. After getting it to deploy efficiently, we were able…
Read postDay 24 and 25: Continued Assembly and Programming Assembly General Assembly We have almost completed wiring on the practice robot. We are waiting on a few competition subsystems to be assembled then we will be moving on to pneumatics. Last night, we had the…
Read postDay 23: Continued Assembly Hopper Progress Robot Progress Almost all our parts are back from anodizing and we are trying to rapidly assemble as much of the robot as possible. The team working on putting surgical tubing over the rollers is almost finished and…
Read postDay 22: Finishing Up The Field Robot Progress Today was a productive manufacturing and assembly day even though we didn't have our anodized parts back. We took off the superstructure today to make holes to run wiring from the shooter and feeder motors and…
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