News, events, and updates from Team 254.
by Ian Chiu and Tyler Cuff Testing At the NASA lab, the drivers have begun to practicing to operate the robot for the upcoming tournament at Waterloo. One group of students used a defensive robot to block Barrage, while the other group used Barrage to score.…
Read postCo-Authored by Tyler Cuff and Robert Lim Testing The day began with students and the drive team practicing and troubleshooting the robot. The drive team traversed the field and practicing scoring goals as quickly as possible. After Skystalker, the surrogate…
Read postDriver Practice Today, students continued to practice driving the robot on the field. Obstacles were set up on the field earlier in the day to test the new drivers’ capabilities.Later, students practiced driving with other students in the human player…
Read postChairman's Award Today students brainstormed and storyboarded the 2014 Chairman's Award Video. This video is required with all Chairman's entries and the winning team's video is shown at the end of each tournament. Also, another group continued work no a…
Read postby Matt MacDonald '17 Assembly Today, students worked on replumbing the locking pistons on the practice robot to make sure it functions to the best of its ability. Organization The team also organized the Box of Pat. Students cleaned out the case and made…
Read postEveryone took the day off today as a reward for all the hard work we put in over the past 6 weeks to get the robot bagged!
Read postby Chris Powers '15 Photo Shoot Today was bag and tag day, so not much machining or robot work occurred. Most of the team worked on taking multiple shots of the finished competition robot, which was placed in a studio area on one half of the field. The team…
Read postby 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…
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