News, events, and updates from Team 254.
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…
Read postToday, 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…
Read postCAD 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 postIntake 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…
Read postCleanup/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…
Read postCleanup 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 postUnloading 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,…
Read postReturning to the event for the fifteenth year, Team 254 had a blast at the 2013 Silicon Valley Regional, winning the event (and only losing one match along the way).
Read postToday was an eventful day to say the least. The team worked hard to finish the necessary tasks before SVR including packing, calibrations, and assembly of subsystems for the competition robot. A new hanger was assembled for the comp bot as well. Programmers…
Read postOpen Field Today the lab was opened for Teams 4543 (Apollo High School) and Team 971 to use our field for calibration and driver practice, while working on bugs in preperation for SVR (where both robots will be competing). Driver Practice Today Driver Abhi…
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