News, events, and updates from Team 254.
DESIGN Today, the design team worked to finalize the drivetrain. The baseplate will be sent out to be cut by Mike D at NASA Kennedy's waterjet shop first thing tomorrow morning. MANUFACTURING The CNC was running all day to cut all of the drivetrain tensioner…
Read postToday, Team 254 finished CNCing the wheel hubs for each team and cut the stock needed for the cams. In the meantime, the CAD team continued tweaking the baseplate design and other groups continued working on prototype methods of handling the soccer balls. One…
Read postAfter almost 18 hours of machining the last two days we completed the first operation on all 70 wheels. We began the second operation and now have 20 completed wheels. The rest should be completed in ~3.5 hours tomorrow. We also began making wheel and gearbox…
Read postBall launching assembly launches ball out of the field when set at the high power position. Original video unavailable. Ball launcher assembly launches ball 44ft on the low power setting. Original video unavailable. Here's the hit spread photo after a few…
Read postToday, Team 254 prototyped a mechanism that keeps the ball in place while kicking and helps the release of the ball. We also mounted the kicking prototype onto our drive base prototype, and began to mount the holding mechanism. We completed the CAD of our…
Read postToday, the CAD team continued to work on the drivebase frame. The back bar for hanging was scrapped, out of concern that there would not be ample room between the bar and the bumpers for an alliance partner to get a hook in. We extended the base plate to the…
Read postAt the lab yesterday, the team continued working on improvements to their prototype . The machining of the wheels has started, meaning we will soon be working on the tread for the wheels. Finally, the team began organizing the bins filled with old motors and…
Read postAt the Cheesy Poof lab today, several objectives were accomplished. The gearbox design was finalized. The drivebase design moved forward, and the basic frame is set for it. It features a large tube on the back for alliance partners to hang their robots from…
Read postSince the ball may only roll 3 inches into the robot, we wished to study the plausibility of a vacuum holding system. In the 2008 Overdrive game, Team 1771 successfully used a mini shop-vac impeller driven by two Fisher Price motors, to posses and lift the…
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