Blog
526 posts from the build season and beyond.
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Einstein Matches
The final matches of FIRST Logomotion have been posted on Youtube. Below are the videos we are featured in:
2011 FRC Build Season
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St. Louis Result
If you haven’t heard yet, we won World Championships. We were allied with teams 111 and 973, and after making it through the tough Galileo division, we went on to dominate through Einstein and take it all. We additionally won the Industrial Design award for the whole competition. As is team…
2011 FRC Build Season
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Hall of Fame Sent Out
Today, the hall of fame was sent out to the print shop for final printing. We have decided to go with a printed hall of fame display for increased portability and professionalism. Above is the final layout for the display. It will be printed on four 33″ wide panels each 80″ tall. Great job to […]
2011 FRC Build Season
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VEX World Championship
A large delegation from Team 254 traveled to Orlando today for the VEX Robotics World Championship. Follow the action at robotevents.com with live webcasts and score updates from all of the divisions. Teams 254A, 254B, 254D, 254E and 254H will be competing.
2011 FRC Build Season
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Minibot Ramp
Over the past week or so, we have been experimenting with a ramp-style minibot deployment. After taking inspiration from some other teams including our friends on The Pink Team, we have determined that this is a potentially much faster method of minibot deployment. Over the next few days, we will…
2011 FRC Build Season
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Shockwave Shipping Out
This weekend, several team members met at the lab to prepare Shockwave the T-Shirt Cannon for its upcoming appearances. Shockwave will be traveling to Orlando for next week’s VEX world championship and to St. Louis for the FIRST World Chmpionship. In preparation for this, we created vinyl decals…
2011 FRC Build Season
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Autonomous Improvements
Now that we are back at home with the practice robot, the programming team has had some time to make the one-tube autonomous routine faster and more reliable and also work on a two-tube routine. The autonomous tube hanging is so reliable that we have discussed creating an “automatic tube hang”…
2011 FRC Build Season
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San Diego Results
Exhausted from a long battle with nearly 60 other FIRST robotics teams, Team 254 (The Cheesy Poofs) from Bellarmine College Preparatory emerged victorious at the San Diego regional robotics tournament on Saturday. After going undefeated in all of their preliminary matches at the tournament, the…
2011 FRC Build Season
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Travel to San Diego, Webcast Info & Programming
Travel After a late night last night of packing everything we needed, we are off to San Diego. Webcast Info The San Diego Regional will be webcast here: http://www.team987.com/community/webcast.html We will be scouting during the event using Cheesy Scout. Programming We brought the practice robot…
2011 FRC Build Season
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Minibot Deployment Success
The deployment is spring-powered and self-aligning. The pneumatic release mechanism is not yet built so we are releasing by hand in the tests, but it is still completely spring powered.
2011 FRC Build Season
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MiniBot Success!
2011 FRC Build Season
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PR/Marketing Update
The PR/Marketing team has been extremely busy; especially with post-build season material. On the award submission side, we have been working on KPCB (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award), Chairman’s presentations, and pit presentations. Chris Campbell along with other students…
2011 FRC Build Season