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526 posts from the build season and beyond.
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2018 Technical Resources Release
Team 254 is proud to present the Technical Binder, Code Release, and Blog Release for our 2018 World Champion winning robot, Lockdown. If you have any questions, feel free to comment on the Chief Delphi thread for our code release and our technical binder release.
2018 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics · Programming
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2018 World Champions!
A Brief Summary As part of an eventful week, we attended the 2018 FIRST World Championship in Houston, Texas from April 18th to April 21st. Assigned to the Hopper Division, we won the Division Championship Award and the Autonomous Award sponsored by Ford, for our 4 cube scale autonomous program and…
2018 FRC Build Season
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2018 Silicon Valley Regional Champions!
A Brief Summary As part of an eventful weekend, we attended the the 20th Silicon Valley Regional, in San Jose, CA. We had a great time at our second tournament of the FIRST Power Up Season with our robot, Lockdown. We won the Innovation In Control Award sponsored by Rockwell Automation for our…
2018 FRC Build Season
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2018 Arizona North Regional Champions!
A Brief Summary As part of an eventful weekend, we attended the Arizona North Regional, for the very first time, in Flagstaff, AZ. We had a great time starting off the FIRST Power Up Season with our robot, Lockdown. Alongside FRC Team 842 Falcon Robotics and FRC Team 2403 Plasma Robotics, we were…
2018 FRC Build Season
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Lockdown Reveal
Team 254 presents our 2018 entry into the FIRST Robotics Competition: Lockdown. Lockdown will be competing at the Arizona North Regional, followed by the Silicon Valley Regional and the FIRST Championship in Houston. More information on the robot.
2018 FRC Build Season
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Build Blog Days 28 and 29 (2/23/18 & 2/24/18)
Programming On Friday, 2/23, we handed off practice bot to the programmers to begin working on autonomous code. The programmers rewrote a large portion of our code to greatly simplify all our state machines and change the way operator controls work. They separated operator controls into wrist angle…
2018 FRC Build Season
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Build Blog Days 18-27 (2/9/18 to 2/20/18)
It's assembly time! Part 1 On Friday, 2/9, we assembled together the elevator on comp bot and tested out how wheel the intermediate stage and carriage slid with the bearing blocks. As we were sliding the stages, we noticed that the carriage was ripping off the powder-coating on the intermediate…
2018 FRC Build Season
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Build Blog Days 16 and 17 (2/2/18 & 2/3/18)
Elevator Task: Design Elevator Cartoon CAD We decided to offset the A-Frame from the frame rail to allow more space for the intake to open and close in between. To do so, this also required moving the frame rail closer to the elevator such that it would not interfere with the omni followers. We…
2018 FRC Build Season
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Stanford Outreach Event
Shockwave Shows Off Some Mad Skills! A Brief Summary WHAT: Shockwave launched t-shirts into a crowd of excited Stanford Basketball Fans WHEN: Saturday, February 3rd, 2018 WHERE: Stanford University in Stanford, CA Team 254 Members Griffin Soule, Shruthik Musukula, Mubashir Hussain, and Jack Gnibus…
Email · Parents · Students
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Build Blog Days 14 and 15 (1/29/18 & 1/31/18)
Elevator Task: Design Elevator CAD We changed the placement of the A-Frame by pushing it further towards the front of the robot and higher up the outer stage elevator upright such that the bumper latch could freely swing without contacting it, and we made the corresponding changes to the gusset…
2018 FRC Build Season
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Build Blog Days 12 and 13 (1/26/18 & 1/27/18)
Elevator Task: Design Elevator Cartoon CAD We finalized the elevator gearbox and pulley placement. To ensure the gearbox does not get in the way of the carriage, we decided to stow it below the elevator and belt out to reductions and the spool. We will have two spools, one on each side. Each spool…
2018 FRC Build Season
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Build Blog Day 11 (1/24/18)
Elevator Task: Design Elevator Cartoon CAD The previous issue with Option B was the issue of the spool not being low enough if we directly mounted it on the shifter shaft. To address this issue, we decided to add a 1:1 reduction to lower the spool down. We also talked about the horseshoe. The…
2018 FRC Build Season