FIRST Robotics
News, events, and updates from Team 254.
Day 30: Machining, CAD, Game Elements, and Drive Base
By Clay Rosenthal Machining Parts of the superstructure were made today to be welded tomorrow. Parts to hold the pieces in place while being welded were also machined. The superstructure will be welded and powder\-coated soon. The parts for the hood and rear…
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Day 28: Coming Together
by Brandon Wui '16, Christian Jimenez '16, and Joncarlo Avila '16 Machining Today students machined parts for the intake and frame. They also worked on the lathe and band saw to cut pieces and face them for the superstructure. Finally, they drilled all of the…
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Day 25: Waiting
By Dan Ngo '17 and Eric Wang '17 Disclaimer The WiFi was down in the lab, and the shipment of anodized parts was delayed until tomorrow \(1/29\). As a result, not much work was done. Programming Today, the programmers tested a new \(Maxbotix MB1010\)…
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Day 24 - Rest Day
Today was our third day of not meeting at the lab. Instead, here's a couple snapshots of the last week at the lab. First, here's a video of Travis flying his hexacopter in the lab. This thing will come in handy when it comes time to make a robot reveal video.…
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Day 23: Manufacturing, Ordering, Goal Construction, Lab stuff, CAD
By Clay Rosenthal Manufacturing: Lots of parts were manufactured today. The gussets for the superstructure were machined on the CNC and scotch brited by hand. Axle plugs were turned on the lathe. Pieces to be CNC milled later for the intake and the hood were…
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Day 22: Trussing and Wiring
Trussing Several students worked on building the trussing for the field. They started with 1.5 x 1.5 inch wood struts and spent all day constructing the various portions of the truss. They are on track to complete the main trussing framework tomorrow. Wiring…
Read postDay 21: Powdercoat, Programming, and Drive base Progress
by James "Mikey" Carroll ’15 Prototyping Today, a group of students continued to work on and improve the indexer prototype. The indexer, the mechanism used to raise balls into the flywheel shooter, features a claw-like design that lifts the ball as the two…
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Day 19: Advancing Prototypes, Prepping for Welding
by Joncarlo Avila and Brandon Wui Prototyping Today, we worked on prototyping an improved catcher and ball indexer. Our new catcher consists of 2 pistons that open and close the catching mechanism. We also removed the intake and shooter from the Overkill…
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Day 18: Prototyping, Testing, and Programming
by Chris Powers and Jack Lee Prototyping Today, work continued on testing the prototype robot’s lift mechanism, which uses pneumatic pistons to lift the ball from the intake of the robot to the flywheel shooter. This lift worked successfully during most of…
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