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526 posts from the build season and beyond.
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Day 49: Chairman’s and Driver Practice
Chairman’s Award Today students brainstormed and storyboarded the 2014 Chairman’s Award Video. This video is required with all Chairman’s entries and the winning team’s video is shown at the end of each tournament. Also, another group continued work no a Chairman’s Powerpoint template that will be…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 48: Organization and Writing
by Matt MacDonald ’17 Assembly Today, students worked on replumbing the locking pistons on the practice robot to make sure it functions to the best of its ability. Organization The team also organized the Box of Pat. Students cleaned out the case and made sure the parts inside the shelves were…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 47: Rest!
Everyone took the day off today as a reward for all the hard work we put in over the past 6 weeks to get the robot bagged!
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 46: Bag and Tag
by Chris Powers ’15 Photo Shoot Today was bag and tag day, so not much machining or robot work occurred. Most of the team worked on taking multiple shots of the finished competition robot, which was placed in a studio area on one half of the field. The team took photos at multiple angles with […]
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 45: Home Stretch
by Dorian Chan and Abhishek Aditham Programming Today the programmers worked on state machines for the shooter on the robot. They have been using state machines for various subsystems on the robot in order to control and interact with them. State machines track what state the robot is in and change…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 45: Autonomous Updates
Over the weekend, the software team was hard at work on 3 ball autonomous routines. Here’s some video. Please enable Javascript to watch this video Please enable Javascript to watch this video Also, shooting on the move works quite nicely. Please enable Javascript to watch this video
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Team 254 and 1868 hold annual FRC Scrimmage
Pictures of this event have been omitted to protect the privacy of all teams in attendance. This past weekend (February 15th and 16th), Team 254 and Team 1868 hosted their annual FRC scrimmage. In our lab, generously provided by NASA, we are thankful to have a near full-size field to practice on, so…
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Day 44: Scrimmage Wrap-Up
by Vidur Maheshwari ’17 and Joey Rodoni ’16 Scrimmage Complete Today was the second and final day of the scrimmage. The team had a lot of fun working with and helping other teams. 254 saw some interesting designs and robots over the past weekend. Hot Goal Sensors Today students mounted the sensors…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 43: Scrimmage Part 1
The 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 shared our lab today to practice on our…
2014 FRC Build Season
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Day 42: Scrimmage Preparation
by Vidur Maheshwari ’17 and Eric Wang ’17 Cleaning Routine Since the scrimmage will occur on Day 43 and 44, today’s work was primarily cleanup. Most teams in the area will attend; therefore, today’s main goal was to make the lab as presentable as possible. The team finished assembling the whole…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 41: Scrimmage Prep
Field Construction Work began on assembling the field today. We first opened up all of the shipping pallets containing the field elements and laid them out on the field. The assembling crew started with the low goal. They assembled the two blue low goals and then moved onto the blue high goal. They…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 40: Intake and Truss
by Matt MacDonald ’17 Today, our team worked to address some problems in our intake and truss. We also worked on programming an important system in our robot. Intake Our team worked to install and improve our intake system. First, our team changed out the bent arms in our robot and installed some…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics