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526 posts from the build season and beyond.
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Day 25: Waiting
By Dan Ngo ’17 and Eric Wang ’17 Disclaimer The WiFi was down in the lab, and the shipment of anodized parts was delayed until tomorrow \(1/29\). As a result, not much work was done. Programming Today, the programmers tested a new \(Maxbotix MB1010\) ultrasonic sensor on the robot. This sensor will…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 24 – Rest Day
Today was our third day of not meeting at the lab. Instead, here’s a couple snapshots of the last week at the lab. First, here’s a video of Travis flying his hexacopter in the lab. This thing will come in handy when it comes time to make a robot reveal video. And here’s an image […]
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 23: Manufacturing, Ordering, Goal Construction, Lab stuff, CAD
By Clay Rosenthal Manufacturing: Lots of parts were manufactured today. The gussets for the superstructure were machined on the CNC and scotch brited by hand. Axle plugs were turned on the lathe. Pieces to be CNC milled later for the intake and the hood were cut on the horizontal band saw. Axles…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 22: Trussing and Wiring
Trussing Several students worked on building the trussing for the field. They started with 1.5 x 1.5 inch wood struts and spent all day constructing the various portions of the truss. They are on track to complete the main trussing framework tomorrow. Wiring A couple of students began working on…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 21: Powdercoat, Programming, and Drive base Progress
by James “Mikey” Carroll ’15 Prototyping Today, a group of students continued to work on and improve the indexer prototype. The indexer, the mechanism used to raise balls into the flywheel shooter, features a claw-like design that lifts the ball as the two arms segments of the claw come together.…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 19: Advancing Prototypes, Prepping for Welding
by Joncarlo Avila and Brandon Wui Prototyping Today, we worked on prototyping an improved catcher and ball indexer. Our new catcher consists of 2 pistons that open and close the catching mechanism. We also removed the intake and shooter from the Overkill practice drivetrain for easier testing. We…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 18: Prototyping, Testing, and Programming
by Chris Powers and Jack Lee Prototyping Today, work continued on testing the prototype robot’s lift mechanism, which uses pneumatic pistons to lift the ball from the intake of the robot to the flywheel shooter. This lift worked successfully during most of the tests. The hopper prototype uses a…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 17: Rest Day 2
Today, there was no official meeting at the lab. However, several team members continued to work on robot design. Instead of a normal blog post, have some pictures of the latest prototype (sponsored by Tem 254: Teh Chezy Pofs). As you can see, the students decorated the robot.
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 16: Programming, and Prototypes
Programming Today, the programmers worked on two major projects and a smaller one. The two larger projects were a data logger for the robot and an app for members to check their FRC Hours. The smaller project was to get Adobe products which had been generously donated to the team onto a few of the…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 15: CAD, Machining, Prototype Robot, Programming, S’MORES!
by Clay Rosenthal Important Reminder Wear safety glasses on bottom floor of lab at all times! Even if you are not machining or there are few people in the lab this is a requirement. CAD Today, work continued on the design of the inner plates of the hood. We also investigated the use of a […]
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 14: Working Robot Prototype, CAD, Chairman’s Award Begun
by Christian Bagamaspad and Michael Simeon Robot Prototype The robot prototype changed considerably today. First, the shooter prototype was mounted to the 2013 drive base. The robot can now drive, intake, load the ball, and shoot in one test. Results were very promising and tests showed the robot…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day 13: Intake Construction, Flywheel Prototype, CAD
by Jeffrey Kaufmann Flywheel Prototype Today, work continued on the automated ball loading mechanism for the flywheel prototype. This “popper” will use two pneumatic pistons to quickly and precisely load balls into the shooter for more consistent and realistic testing. Tomorrow, the entire shooter…
2014 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics