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526 posts from the build season and beyond.
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Day #7: Drive Base and Talon Testing
Prototyping Intake prototype Students continued to improve on the Intake prototype. We wanted to have the Intake prototype powered by one CIM motor. We designed a system which utilized timing belts, gears, and an intermediate roller to power both the top and bottom rollers of the Intake. This is…
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day #6: Consistent Shooting Prototype
Design Gearbox Design It was decided that a power take-off (PTO) mechanism will be implemented into our drivebase gearbox design. A power take off simply allows all the power from the drivebase gearbox to be applied somewhere else. This is achieved by adding an extra output shaft to the gearbox…
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day #5: Continued Prototyping
Today was a very productive day at the lab. There was a lot of progress made in many areas. Prototyping Shooter Prototype Improvements were made to the shooter prototype. After students replaced a faulty CIM motor, an adjustable base was added to the linear shooter to allow testing at multiple…
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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FRC Programming – Action Items
In order to keep track of programming-related action items for FRC, we've created a spreadsheet with tasks that are sorted by priority. If you're ever at the lab and want to do some programming, swing by and choose a task that interests you. We hope that this list will make it easier for you to…
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics · Programming
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Day #4: Success with Intake and Shooter!
Today was a huge improvement in student attendance over yesterday. With our first active weekday build, a majority of the time was spent designing and beginning initial prototyping of an intake mechanism. Prototyping Intake Prototype Students worked in a group to brainstorm ideas for an intake…
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Part Management System
To help manage the robot parts in CAD and their manufacturing status, there is a new web-based part management system located at parts.team254.com. This system assigns official part numbers, stores information about parts and the materials required to make them, and shows the current manufacturing…
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Build Season Recipes: Week 0
I received a couple of requests for the cookie recipe from Kickoff weekend, so I'll just post it here on the build blog. Stay tuned for future weekly deliciousness and nutritiousness! Double Chocolate Cookies 1 cup butter 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 tsp. vanilla extract 1 egg 1/3 cup cocoa…
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day #3: Design Discussion
Today was the first weekday of build and with fewer member attendances, there was a lot of individual work getting done. Majority of time was spent in conversation between students and mentors on design decisions. Prototyping Three different designs are continuing to be prototyped: Arm design…
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Day #2: Finished Pyramid!
Today the team got a great start as soon as we could access the lab, making substantial progress on a multitude of projects. Prototyping Today in prototyping the team pursued our 3 designs decided yesterday for shooting mechanisms which are: Radius design Continued to try and make shots using the…
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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FRC Season Day #1: Kickoff
After the whole team kickoff-unveiling event at BCP, students came to the NASA lab at 1:00pm to begin discussing game strategy, going over the new game rules in detail, and began numerous design, prototyping and field assembly tasks throughout the course of the day. Prototyping A couple of groups…
2013 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics
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Team 254 Helps out at Toys for Tots
On Saturday December 22nd, 27 Cheesy Poofs came together to help needy children in the Santa Clara Valley. The members donated over 70 hours to help distribute gifts to the needy and bring smiles to their faces. The boys were painting faces and hands with Christmas scenes, running games with…
FIRST Robotics
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A Weekend of VEX
This past weekend Team 254's seven VEX teams were split between two tournaments, one in Modesto and one in Los Angeles. Teams 254 A, C, and F went down to the CSUN Los Angeles Regional, while Teams 254 B, D, E, and G went to the Central Valley Sack Attack Tournament in Modesto. 254F became an […]
Tournaments · VEX Robotics