2013 Silicon Valley Regional
Returning to the event for the fifteenth year, Team 254 had a blast at the 2013 Silicon Valley Regional, winning the event (and only losing one match along the way).
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Pre-SVR Day 17: Hangin' by a Thread
Today was an eventful day to say the least. The team worked hard to finish the necessary tasks before SVR including packing, calibrations, and assembly of subsystems for the competition robot. A new hanger was assembled for the comp bot as well. Programmers…
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Pre-SVR Day 16: Open Field
Open Field Today the lab was opened for Teams 4543 (Apollo High School) and Team 971 to use our field for calibration and driver practice, while working on bugs in preperation for SVR (where both robots will be competing). Driver Practice Today Driver Abhi…
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Pre-SVR Day 15: Hanger Assembly
Hanger The highlight of today was beginning assembly of the hangers for the competition robot. We plan to finish fully assembling these soon. We are constructing 3 identical hanger assemblies so as to have one extra. Jonathan Lee working to assemble the…
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Overkill Teaser
After the team's dedicated fans showed us how much they wanted to see the world's fastest 30 point hang, we showed them something special that we've been working on.
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Hanger While testing the hang speed late yesterday, the hanger malfunctioned. While it was on the third level hang, one of the arms bounced and did not latch, leaving the robot hanging from one arm. This torqued that arm at an angle, the belt snapped, and…
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Pre-SVR Day 13: Defense
After a quick driver's practice today, a programming issue occured with the autofire shooting. With the indexer physically jamming as well as the software causing jamming while shooting, practice was stopped and efforts were put towards making sure the robot…
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Pre-SVR Day 12: Regroup and Rethink
After ten minutes of driver practicing, the team still determined that one glaring problem still exists that currently precedes all others: the robot's intake system inconsistently picks up frisbees. Intake The team technical leaders gathered to decide on a…
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Pre-SVR Day 11: Intake Redesign
Intake The team is currently working on redesigning the intake to intake discs more effectively. There are multiple issues with the current iteration, such as stacking when intaking multiple discs. As of now, students are experimenting by attaching two small…
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Indexer The polycarb flap that indexes the frisbee was modified to be thicker. The indexer superstructure was changed and we reverted to old butcher knife plates to lower compression on the disc. The default state of the indexer was also changed from the…
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