News, events, and updates from Team 254.
by 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 postTeam 254 just returned from the Waterloo Regional in Ontario, Canada. The team seeded second and went on to win the tournament and two awards while making some great new Canadian friends.
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 Jeremy Tanlimco '15 At the Central Valley Regional First Robotics Competition (FRC), Team 254 earned an outstanding victory. Seeded first place out of 45 total teams and winning 10 out of 11 matches in qualifications, the Cheesy Poofs excelled on the…
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…
Read postby Dan Ngo '17 Competition Preparation Driver practice continued today in preparation for Madera, with the same format as before. One driver controlled with practice Barrage, while the other driver played defense with Skystalker. Members worked on attaching…
Read postTeam 254, NASA Ames Robotics "The Cheesy Poofs", proudly presents our 2014 robot: Barrage. Barrage will compete at the Central Valley Regional, Waterloo Regional, Silicon Valley Regional...
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