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526 posts from the build season and beyond.
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Archiving Update
For this week, no meeting was held. At the large team meeting I personally contacted everyone who has not turned in their assignment. In addition, I gave them the names again so that they can go back and check. Finally, someone on the archiving team agreed to take the large list that we have to…
2011 FRC Build Season
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FRC Build Update
Friday the 10th marked our third and final CAD Friday and our final FRC Friday of the semester. We had a great time and started to explore some of the more advanced assembly and sketch features of SolidWorks. Although it would have been nice to have more time so that we could have gone into […]
2011 FRC Build Season
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VEX animation started
The animation team began making a game for this year’s vex animation challenge. The rules of the animation challenge are: http://forum.robotevents.com/design/challenge/detail/94 Here are the rules to our game: http://team254.com/images/stories/the%20field.png There are small tops upside down on the…
2011 FRC Build Season
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Pan Pacific and Fairfield
This past weekend, the Bellarmine Robotics Team 254 once again stretched itself to the limit, entering two separate tournaments 3,000 miles apart. At Fairfield, CA, 4 Bellarmine VEX Robotics teams competed in the 2nd annual Vanden High VEX Regional, waking up early for a 2 hour drive on Saturday…
2011 FRC Build Season
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Archiving Update
Last week a meeting was scheduled for Thursday, but not enough people showed up, so it didn’t happen. I have personally contacted everyone on the team to remind them of their assignments and the meetings.
2011 FRC Build Season
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Marketing & PR Update
Chairman’s We have finished writing the prompts. Our efforts now are focussed on the Main Essay that we will be submitting as part of the application. We are also working on the story board for the movie portion of the submission. If anyone has a video camera they would like to lend or an video…
2011 FRC Build Season
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First CAD Friday
Today was Team 254’s first of three CAD Fridays. After a fun team lunch, we had over twenty team members come together at the NASA lab to learn CAD skills. We started out with an introduction to SolidWorks and went into some of the skills used in basic extruded features and sketches. We discussed…
2011 FRC Build Season
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Zero Robotics Comes to an End
After a strong few months of programming, the Zero Robotics team draws the season to an end. At the last competition, which took place at MIT on Friday the 12th, BCP Zero Robotics placed 3rd out of 8 teams in our bracket, but placed 11th out of the entire 24 teams. The cut off for […]
2011 FRC Build Season
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Movement, Textures, and Music
Johnathan Chang worked on the opening scene of the Saftey Animation. Ryan Barekat finished the textures used on the main character’s model. Erik Anderson is composing the score for the animation.
2011 FRC Build Season
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Archiving Update
For the week of November 8 to November 14 the submissions for archiving were submitted to me. About half the team has responded with their info, and the other half has not contacted me. I will talk to everyone on the team this week and I will shuffle assignments if necessary.
2011 FRC Build Season
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Zero Robotics
This September, we got a team of programmers together and applied to participate in an MIT and NASA sponsored competition called Zero Robotics. After a very difficult application process, we got accepted among 24 other teams out of over 100! Using an online simulator, our team met multiple times a…
2011 FRC Build Season
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Catapults, T-Shirt Cannon Underglow, CAD Seminar & More
Catapults Today, at the NASA Lab, we had a large group of students meeting for FRC Friday. This week, to apply some of the tools usage and mechanical skills that were learned in previous workshops, we split into two mini-teams and had a catapult-building competition, which was to be judged on…
2011 FRC Build Season