Blog
526 posts from the build season and beyond.
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Design Automation Conference Demo
On June 3rd, 4 members from our team, along with our 2014 world championship robot Barrage, gave a demo at the Design Automation Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
Public Relations
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VEX World Championship
Overview This past week, 15 members of Bellarmine’s VEX Robotics Team 254 competed at the VEX World Championship. Team 254D \(led by Elias Wu ’14, Tyler Cuff ’14, Jeffrey Kaufman ‘15, and Tarun Midde ’15\) ranked 7th in it’s division, and Team 254G \(led by Eric Wang ’17 and Goutham Gnanasekaran…
VEX Robotics
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2014 World Champions!
Team 254 just returned from the 2014 FRC World Championship held in St. Louis. The team went undefeated in the qualification rounds of the Curie Division and paired with teams 469, 2848, and 74…
FIRST Robotics · Tournaments
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Pre-STL Day 4: Lighting Up
by Nathan Duong ’16 Competition Preparation: Transportation Crate The second layer of paint has been applied to the transportation crate and is now finished! Field Construction: 1 Point Goals Members of the team have continued to construct the two wooden 1\-point goals to mirror the left side of…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Pre-STL Day 3: Boxes and Boxing In
by Nathan Duong ’16 Transportation The 5’ x 5’ x 5’ wooden crate that will be used for tool transportation in the St. Louis trip is being worked on. The first of two coats of blue paint was applied to patch the blank patches in a lighter color. Scrimmaging Scrimmaging is continually being conducted…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Pre-STL Day 2: Robot Repairs
by: Brenden Farrer Today at the lab, other FIRST teams, such as Spartan Robotics, came to practice with our field. The primary focus was on fixing the practice robot and Skystalker to continue driver practice with the other teams. Skystalker A “hat” was built for Skystalker that allows it to block…
2014 FRC Build Season · Administrative · FIRST Robotics
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Pre-STL Day 1: Going Forward
by Dan Ngo ’17 Tasks Today, the team started with a discussion about our performance in SVR, between all of the mentors and members at the lab. During that, the team addressed most of the issues that the robot had during the tournament, which mainly consisted of getting stuck by T-boning from an…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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2014 Silicon Valley Regional
Team 254 rounded out its regional play this past weekend with its annual attendance at the Silicon Valley Regional FIRST Robotics Competition. The team won 10 of its 11 matches in the qualification round, losing match 47 against the top-seeded team, 971, who had gone and continues to go undefeated…
FIRST Robotics · Tournaments
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Pre-SVR Day 8
by Brendan Farrer ’17 This lab day was mainly dedicated to preparing for the SVR tournament and finishing up the Chairman’s binder and Technical binder. Pit Display The final touches were made to the pit display, including fixing the remote light controls and adding a carousel effect for when it is…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Robotics Engineering Day 2014
By: Chanan Walia On March 30, 2014, Team 254 hosted their first robotics engineering day. Nearly sixty middle school teams signed up to attend. To kick off the day, Godwin Vincent presented an introduction to robotics and how the engineering process is universal throughout every type of…
Administrative
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Pre-SVR Day 7
by Samuel Buxton ’16 Scrimmage Today was an eventful day at the lab. In preparation for the SVR (Silicon Valley Regional) our drivers trained against some of the best teams in the region, including 1868, 971, 192. and 776. SVR Prep Upstairs the team fixed “Barrage’s” intake, and a separate project…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Pre-SVR Day 4: Preparation
by Nathan Duong ’16 and Josh Fluegemann ’17 Pit Display The programmers of the team worked on the pit display; they primarily sought to improve the quality of the display through cleaning up the HTML and CSS of the web application. Today, they added lightbox capabilities to the web box. Pit Lights…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics