News, events, and updates from Team 254.
Day 3: Progress in Prototypes Prototyping Double Wheel Vertical Flywheel Today, we worked on assembling the Double Wheel Vertical Flywheel. Taking the parts from last build, we assembled it using the new VersaPlanetary gearboxes and encoders we received. We…
Read postDay 2: Prototyping Today, we continued our work on prototyping designs for the shooter, intake, and drivebase. Our programming team also worked through a variety of projects including camera calibration and configuring the RoboRIOS. Shooters Double Wheel…
Read postDay 1: Kickoff & Testing Today was the first day of the FRC build season. The new game, FIRST Steamworks, was revealed, and we began evaluating strategies and testing prototype mechanisms for our 2017 robot. Helpful Links The game manual and rules are linked…
Read postThe Scrimmage By Ryan Johnson, Louis Lin, and Alex Cherry Team 604 (Quixilver), Team 192 (Gunn Robotics), Team 4765 (PWR up), Team 581 (Blazing Bulldogs), Team 1351 (TKO), Team 3501 (Firebird Robotics), Team 4990 (Gryphons), and Team 2813 (Gear Heads) all…
Read postKickoff Overview Today kicks off the 2014 FRC Season for Team 254. The mentors and students are equally ecstatic for this year's challenge, Aerial Assist. Google Drive PDF of the Game Manual:…
Read postPractice Field Assembly Without a doubt, the highlight of the day was the arrival of the official field pieces. Students spent much of the night organizing the many parts that arrived at the lab today and assembling the field elements themselves. The pyramids…
Read postToday was a very productive day at the lab. There was a lot of progress made in many areas. Prototyping Shooter Prototype Improvements were made to the shooter prototype. After students replaced a faulty CIM motor, an adjustable base was added to the linear…
Read postToday was a huge improvement in student attendance over yesterday. With our first active weekday build, a majority of the time was spent designing and beginning initial prototyping of an intake mechanism. Prototyping Intake Prototype Students worked in a…
Read postToday the team got a great start as soon as we could access the lab, making substantial progress on a multitude of projects. Prototyping Today in prototyping the team pursued our 3 designs decided yesterday for shooting mechanisms which are: Radius design…
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