FRC World Championships
Team 254 just returned from the FIRST World Championship in St. Louis Missouri where we competed and bonded with FIRST teams from across the world.
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Pre-STL Day 9: Step into High Gear
Manufacturing Students started organizing new parts into their respective bins. Most of these parts will be spares for competition. In addition, a few mentors and students worked on deburring, polishing, and touching up parts which will be sent in for powder…
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Shooter/Indexer Students and mentors worked diligently to replace one of the intake rollers with a BBD. Students also worked to troubleshoot an issue with the new intake hardstop that was causing hang-ups on the intake system. Manufacturing Working diligently…
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Intake Wooden blocks were added tonight to the practice robot to keep the polycarbonate base of the intake from touching the ground. This is one of a series of adjustments to the intake to make it more efficient, fluid, and functional. The polycarbonate base…
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Pre-STL Day 6: Packing
Today, students built a pallet to ship large items to St. Louis. They packed some very crucial items needed for Championship, including the robot cart, pit shelving, batteries, and lights for the trussing. Lastly, programmers debugged some issues with the pit…
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Pre-STL Day 5: Shopping Spree & Dieting
CAD Today, students and mentors worked together to design new subsystems of the robot. For instance, a new gearbox was designed for the intake lowering and raising, which would replace the current VEX planetary gearbox. The VEX planetary was very inefficient…
Read postPre-STL Day 4: Engineering Priorities for Time Constraints
Intake Students worked to carefully repair the intake when it broke this morning. They had to pause momentarily to remove the intake and fix it on the side. Fixing the Intake Jonathan Lee debugging the robot Design Due to the fact that there are only two…
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Pre-STL Day 3: Final Cleanup and Bucket Design Incorporation
Cleanup/Unpacking Students finally finished unpacking from SVR. All of the competition crates were unpacked and bins were restored to their original places. The lab is now fully equipped and ready for robot iterations and improvements. Buckets A modified…
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Pre-STL Day 2: Cleanup and Buckets
Cleanup Students started today's build session with a general clean up after dinner, including a full cleanup of the upstairs area and a more specific unpacking. Buckets After the cleanup, investigation on the buckets continued, and it was learned that if a…
Read postPre-STL Day 1: Unpacking and Buckets
Unloading The team members helped unload the many items into the lab that were brought to the Silicon Valley Regional, such as the black crates, the robot, the bumpers, tool chest, robot cart, and carpets. After most of the luggage was placed on the field,…
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