News, events, and updates from Team 254.
Shockwave Shows Off Some Mad Skills! A Brief Summary WHAT: Shockwave launched t-shirts into a crowd of excited Stanford Basketball Fans WHEN: Saturday, February 3rd, 2018 WHERE: Stanford University in Stanford, CA Team 254 Members Griffin Soule, Shruthik…
Read postDay 41: Improving Gear Scoring Gear Grabber Today we worked on the Cow Catcher, or an assembly that prevents balls from getting stuck in the Gear Grabber and pushes balls out of the way. We began with prototyping with two delrin side plates and a 3/8"…
Read postDay 40: Improvements for SVR Driving Improvements We added additions to our robot in order to create an easier and more efficient driving environment. We have placed a blue LED strip on the back of the hood to let drivers know whether or not they are in a…
Read postDays 37, 38, & 39: Preparing For Competition Intake Today, we worked on fixing the intake after it broke earlier this week. After analyzing the strength of our current weldment and modifying it slightly, we decided that simply strengthening it would not help…
Read postDay 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 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…
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