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526 posts from the build season and beyond.
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Day 39: Finish Assembly
by Quentin Delephine ’17 Assembly Today the team spent a lot of time assembling both the practice and competition robots. Students added rubber bumpers to the superstructure using rivets. This prevents the front intake from hitting the superstructure and damaging it. Wiring and Pneumatics Students…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 38 – Rest Day
Today was a rest day at the lab. Here’s some slow motion videos from the past few days of testing at the lab. One week to go…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 37: Construction and Testing
by Abhishek Aditham ‘15 Bumpers Today, students continued construction of the bumpers. On the pieces of cut Cordura they marked 4 inch by 12 inch boxes onto which 254’s team number will later be embroidered. Machining Some students machined two pieces of tubing that will be used to hold up the…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 36: Practice Robot and Release Video
By Luke Gardner Machining Students machined wood for the bumper and the pool noodles arrived. Parts for the control board were machined for later construction. Robot Construction Work on the practice robot continued including more wiring and work on the gearboxes. The pneumatics for the pinniped…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 35: Wiring and Writing
by Eliot Smullen ’16 Graphic Design Several students continued to brainstorm a Waterloo-specific T-shirt. Some of them began considering the issue of whether the back should be left blank if the design on the front were of sufficient size and graphic complexity. The rest brainstormed catchy slogans…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 34: Scouting and Superstructures
by Eric Wang ’17 Machining Today, students manufactured internal shaft\-like connectors for the superstructure. These were designed to give durability to the superstructure when under stress. Also, students machined gussets for the bumper. Scouting The scouting team began brainstorming a new method…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 33: Finishing up machining and wiring!
CAD and Machining The CAD is nearly finalized and only minor details were flushed out tonight. The various gearbox plates \(intake, front intake, rear intake, shooter\) were finalized and CNCd. Today we also machined new pieces for the shooter drive shaft. Super structure,and shooter were cleaned…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 31 – Rest Day
Today was another rest day. Have a weld video or two as we begin week 5!
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 30: Machining, CAD, Game Elements, and Drive Base
By Clay Rosenthal Machining Parts of the superstructure were made today to be welded tomorrow. Parts to hold the pieces in place while being welded were also machined. The superstructure will be welded and powder\-coated soon. The parts for the hood and rear intake were also assembled and will soon…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 29: Assembling Gearboxes
By Michael Simeon, Matthew Tran, Christian Bagamaspad, Stephen Pinkerton Machining Today, members manufactured shooter shafts, standoffs, spacers for gearbox, and crosspieces for “seal.” Additionally, they began detailing and manufacturing parts for the front and back intakes. They also machined…
2014 FRC Build Season
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Day 28: Coming Together
by Brandon Wui ’16, Christian Jimenez ’16, and Joncarlo Avila ’16 Machining Today students machined parts for the intake and frame. They also worked on the lathe and band saw to cut pieces and face them for the superstructure. Finally, they drilled all of the holes based on the CAD model. CAD Today…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Shockwave @ Santa Clara Basketball Game
On January 29th, two Team 254 members brought Shockwave to the Santa Clara Basketball game.
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