News, events, and updates from Team 254.
Hanging Today, the programmers focused on making the 30-point hanging fully autonomous. This makes the climber run with a push of a button (specifically, a switch and a button). They started the day off by tuning the PID for the upward hanging by using a…
Read postThis weekend, five of our seven vex teams had an excellent showing at the inaugural California State Championship and ended up winning the tournament.
Read postProgramming and Controls Most of the afternoon was focused on driver practice and controls testing. Pat and Tom worked on reducing the time between shots. They were able to make the indexer go significanly faster, reducing our shooting time by a few seconds.…
Read postToday was the first day of VEX State Championships, though no actual competition took place. Instead, today was a day for practicing alongside other teams and debugging any residual robot problems. We started the day by registering our teams and getting the…
Read postThe first few days after a tournament are usually pretty relaxing, but they are also just as busy (if not more) than other days. Today, there was a large organization effort to empty the last few bins of tools and parts that were brought to competition. The…
Read postAfter a difficult six weeks of design and construction, Team 254 won the San Diego Regional with teams 987 and 1138.
Read postThese delicious and nutritious brownies have powered many Friday night picklist meetings on multiple teams, and more often than not have led to regional and divisional victories. This past weekend in San Diego was no different. Strategy Brownies 1 cup butter…
Read postOur team has arrived in San Diego in one piece, and is doing great. The pit is set up, we've passed inspection, and apparently, the waffles at the hotel are amazing. If you're looking for quick updates, our team Facebook page is a great place to look, you…
Read postManufacturing Students manufactured the polycarbonate flaps for the indexer using the vertical bandsaw, among other miscellaneous parts. Programming Today, the programmers did a lot of fine-tuning and testing with the various autonomous sequences. The seven,…
Read postDriver Practice: Drivers and operators continued practice today in preparation for the upcoming San Diego Regional. To hone their skills they ran a multitude of drills with a wide variety of obstacles to simulate a field filled with other robots. In these…
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