News, events, and updates from Team 254.
Over the past week or so, we have been experimenting with a ramp-style minibot deployment. After taking inspiration from some other teams including our friends on The Pink Team, we have determined that this is a potentially much faster method of minibot…
Read postThis weekend, several team members met at the lab to prepare Shockwave the T-Shirt Cannon for its upcoming appearances. Shockwave will be traveling to Orlando for next week's VEX world championship and to St. Louis for the FIRST World Chmpionship. In…
Read postNow that we are back at home with the practice robot, the programming team has had some time to make the one-tube autonomous routine faster and more reliable and also work on a two-tube routine. The autonomous tube hanging is so reliable that we have…
Read postExhausted from a long battle with nearly 60 other FIRST robotics teams, Team 254 (The Cheesy Poofs) from Bellarmine College Preparatory emerged victorious at the San Diego regional robotics tournament on Saturday. After going undefeated in all of their…
Read postTravel After a late night last night of packing everything we needed, we are off to San Diego. Webcast Info The San Diego Regional will be webcast here: http://www.team987.com/community/webcast.html We will be scouting during the event using Cheesy Scout.…
Read postThe deployment is spring-powered and self-aligning. The pneumatic release mechanism is not yet built so we are releasing by hand in the tests, but it is still completely spring powered.
Read postThe PR/Marketing team has been extremely busy; especially with post-build season material. On the award submission side, we have been working on KPCB (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award), Chairman's presentations, and pit presentations.…
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