News, events, and updates from Team 254.
by Vidur Maheshwari '17 and Eric Wang '17 Cleaning Routine Since the scrimmage will occur on Day 43 and 44, today's work was primarily cleanup. Most teams in the area will attend; therefore, today's main goal was to make the lab as presentable as possible.…
Read postField Construction Work began on assembling the field today. We first opened up all of the shipping pallets containing the field elements and laid them out on the field. The assembling crew started with the low goal. They assembled the two blue low goals and…
Read postby Matt MacDonald '17 Today, our team worked to address some problems in our intake and truss. We also worked on programming an important system in our robot. Intake Our team worked to install and improve our intake system. First, our team changed out the…
Read postby Quentin Delephine '17 Assembly Today the team spent a lot of time assembling both the practice and competition robots. Students added rubber bumpers to the superstructure using rivets. This prevents the front intake from hitting the superstructure and…
Read postToday was a rest day at the lab. Here's some slow motion videos from the past few days of testing at the lab. One week to go...
Read postby Abhishek Aditham ‘15 Bumpers Today, students continued construction of the bumpers. On the pieces of cut Cordura they marked 4 inch by 12 inch boxes onto which 254’s team number will later be embroidered. Machining Some students machined two pieces of…
Read postBy Luke Gardner Machining Students machined wood for the bumper and the pool noodles arrived. Parts for the control board were machined for later construction. Robot Construction Work on the practice robot continued including more wiring and work on the…
Read postby Eliot Smullen '16 Graphic Design Several students continued to brainstorm a Waterloo-specific T-shirt. Some of them began considering the issue of whether the back should be left blank if the design on the front were of sufficient size and graphic…
Read postby Eric Wang '17 Machining Today, students manufactured internal shaft\-like connectors for the superstructure. These were designed to give durability to the superstructure when under stress. Also, students machined gussets for the bumper. Scouting The…
Read postCAD and Machining The CAD is nearly finalized and only minor details were flushed out tonight. The various gearbox plates \(intake, front intake, rear intake, shooter\) were finalized and CNCd. Today we also machined new pieces for the shooter drive shaft.…
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