News, events, and updates from Team 254.
Day 32: Continued Assembly and Programming Gear Grabber Today, we worked on designing and testing the roller gear grabber. We installed a prototype onto the programming robot, and it worked somewhat well. When we drove into a gear directly, it was always…
Read postDay 31: Continued Assembly and Programming Hopper On Monday, we worked on making the hopper more rigid as well as tackling other issues with it, including breach of size constraints and inability to actuate field hopper. We brainstormed and tested off of…
Read postDay 29 & 30: Getting Ready for Competition Season Assembly Hopper/Hopper Floor Today, we worked on solving the funneling speed issue by placing a set of 4 rollers at the end of the hopper floor and above the wedges to provide a force pushing the ball…
Read postDay 28: Bag and Tag Day Robot Progress General Assembly Today, we started by receiving news that after visiting 3 anodizing places, we could get parts for our hopper and hanger anodized for the competition robot. After calling, we knew that we would receive…
Read postDay 26 and 27: Continued Assembly and Programming Assembly Hopper Today, we made sizable progress on the hopper. We made an initial prototype which we iterated upon to account for unforeseen difficulties. After getting it to deploy efficiently, we were able…
Read postDay 24 and 25: Continued Assembly and Programming Assembly General Assembly We have almost completed wiring on the practice robot. We are waiting on a few competition subsystems to be assembled then we will be moving on to pneumatics. Last night, we had the…
Read postDay 23: Continued Assembly Hopper Progress Robot Progress Almost all our parts are back from anodizing and we are trying to rapidly assemble as much of the robot as possible. The team working on putting surgical tubing over the rollers is almost finished and…
Read postDay 22: Finishing Up The Field Robot Progress Today was a productive manufacturing and assembly day even though we didn't have our anodized parts back. We took off the superstructure today to make holes to run wiring from the shooter and feeder motors and…
Read postDay 20 & 21: Field and Robot Construction Robot We are focusing heavily on manufacturing to make sure all the parts for the robot are ready; we sent several parts to anodize this morning. We also have a shooter and intake assembled and hope to finish the…
Read postDay 19: Prototyping, Drivebase, and Programming Prototyping Shooter The shooter design is almost done. We are moving forward with 20 degree trajectory and tangent hood section out to 45 degree, to match the prototype. It should be ready to make this weekend.…
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