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526 posts from the build season and beyond.
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Pre-SVR Day 5: Autonomous Hanging
Hanging Today, the programmers focused on making the 30-point hanging fully autonomous. This makes the climber run with a push of a button (specifically, a switch and a button). They started the day off by tuning the PID for the upward hanging by using a square wave to visually see the hanger…
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Team 254 Wins State Championships
This weekend, five of our seven vex teams had an excellent showing at the inaugural California State Championship and ended up winning the tournament.
Tournaments · VEX Robotics
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Pre-SVR Day 4: Level 3 Hang
Programming and Controls Most of the afternoon was focused on driver practice and controls testing. Pat and Tom worked on reducing the time between shots. They were able to make the indexer go significanly faster, reducing our shooting time by a few seconds. There were a few issues, primarly, the…
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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VEX State, Day 1
Today was the first day of VEX State Championships, though no actual competition took place. Instead, today was a day for practicing alongside other teams and debugging any residual robot problems. We started the day by registering our teams and getting the robots inspected, thus saving us time…
VEX Robotics
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Pre-SVR Day 3: Organization and Autonomous
The first few days after a tournament are usually pretty relaxing, but they are also just as busy (if not more) than other days. Today, there was a large organization effort to empty the last few bins of tools and parts that were brought to competition. The main focus of this clean up effort is […]
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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2013 San Diego Regional Winners!
After a difficult six weeks of design and construction, Team 254 won the San Diego Regional with teams 987 and 1138.
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Build Season Recipes: Strategy Brownies
These delicious and nutritious brownies have powered many Friday night picklist meetings on multiple teams, and more often than not have led to regional and divisional victories. This past weekend in San Diego was no different. Strategy Brownies 1 cup butter 1-1/3 cup sugar 1 cup brown sugar 4 eggs…
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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San Diego Regional in Progress
Our team has arrived in San Diego in one piece, and is doing great. The pit is set up, we’ve passed inspection, and apparently, the waffles at the hotel are amazing. If you’re looking for quick updates, our team Facebook page is a great place to look, you will be able to find pictures, statuses…
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Autonomous Tuning
Manufacturing Students manufactured the polycarbonate flaps for the indexer using the vertical bandsaw, among other miscellaneous parts. Programming Today, the programmers did a lot of fine-tuning and testing with the various autonomous sequences. The seven, five, and four disc autonomous modes…
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Driver Practice and Intake Modification
Driver Practice: Drivers and operators continued practice today in preparation for the upcoming San Diego Regional. To hone their skills they ran a multitude of drills with a wide variety of obstacles to simulate a field filled with other robots. In these drills the drive team is fed 1 frisbee at…
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Driver Practice, Competition Preparation, and Debugging
Robot The robot wheels got partially machined today. They are currently still being worked on. Drivers practiced driving around and other students continued debugging the shooter. This was a result of the fact that the shooter kept jamming, because it would intake one frisbee on top of another.…
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Driver Practice and Machining
Machining Students worked on manufacturing the official robot stands. They used the metal pieces from the previous robot stand, but cut those pieces to length using the horizontal bandsaw. They also drilled new holes into the metal with the mill. Meanwhile, Cory created wheels on the CNC. Driver…
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics