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526 posts from the build season and beyond.
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Sponsor Visits
Now that our season is over, Team 254 has been visiting with our sponsors to show them Overkill and thank them for their generous support.
FIRST Robotics · Public Relations
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Demo for 2013 Zero Robotics Winners
Yesterday, Mark Leon and Drew Price arranged for the current Zero Robotics Winners to tour the NASA Ames Facilities. Team 254 represented the NASA Robotics Alliance as part of the tour. The 20 or so members of their winning team filed in to the lab and were given a presentation by Abhi Kumar and…
FIRST Robotics · Public Relations
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VEX Championship
At the World Championship, Team 254 exhibited success both on and off the playing field, moving into elimination matches and winning major awards.
Tournaments · VEX Robotics
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Pre-STL Day 9: Step into High Gear
Manufacturing Students started organizing new parts into their respective bins. Most of these parts will be spares for competition. In addition, a few mentors and students worked on deburring, polishing, and touching up parts which will be sent in for powder coating and anodizing. Drivetrain…
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Pre-STL Day 8: Rolling with It
Shooter/Indexer Students and mentors worked diligently to replace one of the intake rollers with a BBD. Students also worked to troubleshoot an issue with the new intake hardstop that was causing hang-ups on the intake system. Manufacturing Working diligently to manufacture new intake gearbox…
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Pre-STL Day 7: Maintenance & Anticipation
Intake Wooden blocks were added tonight to the practice robot to keep the polycarbonate base of the intake from touching the ground. This is one of a series of adjustments to the intake to make it more efficient, fluid, and functional. The polycarbonate base often gets caught in the carbonate…
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Pre-STL Day 6: Packing
Today, students built a pallet to ship large items to St. Louis. They packed some very crucial items needed for Championship, including the robot cart, pit shelving, batteries, and lights for the trussing. Lastly, programmers debugged some issues with the pit lights. The color effects no longer…
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Pre-STL Day 5: Shopping Spree & Dieting
CAD Today, students and mentors worked together to design new subsystems of the robot. For instance, a new gearbox was designed for the intake lowering and raising, which would replace the current VEX planetary gearbox. The VEX planetary was very inefficient and quite heavy. The new gearbox with…
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Pre-STL Day 4: Engineering Priorities for Time Constraints
Intake Students worked to carefully repair the intake when it broke this morning. They had to pause momentarily to remove the intake and fix it on the side. Design Due to the fact that there are only two weeks remaining before World Championships in St. Louis, a lot of the team’s new redesign…
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Pre-STL Day 3: Final Cleanup and Bucket Design Incorporation
Cleanup/Unpacking Students finally finished unpacking from SVR. All of the competition crates were unpacked and bins were restored to their original places. The lab is now fully equipped and ready for robot iterations and improvements. Buckets The bucket design was worked on today in great detail.…
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Pre-STL Day 2: Cleanup and Buckets
Cleanup Students started today’s build session with a general clean up after dinner, including a full cleanup of the upstairs area and a more specific unpacking. Buckets After the cleanup, investigation on the buckets continued, and it was learned that if a bar applies pressure on the bucket in the…
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Pre-STL Day 1: Unpacking and Buckets
Unloading The team members helped unload the many items into the lab that were brought to the Silicon Valley Regional, such as the black crates, the robot, the bumpers, tool chest, robot cart, and carpets. After most of the luggage was placed on the field, students helped move the large rolls of…
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics