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526 posts from the build season and beyond.
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We haz powdercoat.
We haz powdercoat. Unfortunately, Central Powder Coating was not well staffed today. They will have the 254 frames powdercoated blue streak #2 tomorrow morning. We will be picking up the blue frames tomorrow at 10AM.
2010 Teams 254/968 Collaborative Build Blog
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Revised Control Board Layout
This revision includes the cutout for the Classmate pc, contours and filets for the ethernet jack, holes for the LED mounts, screwdriver slots for the Cypress board and finally, an additional cutout that replaced the roller button.
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Progress
Manufacturing Pacific Precision is able to make the output shafts; unfortunately they will not be done until late next week. We also confirmed that the robot frames will be ready to be picked up from Central Powder Coating at the end of business day Thursday. We continued progress on machining the…
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Progress
MANUFACTURING The manufacturing team has been working hard to complete parts for the drivebase. After completing gears and sprockets, we have moved onto the construction of the shifting dogs for both the drivetrain and the kicker winch. DESIGN The design team has been working to finalize a myriad…
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Welding Complete, Off to Powder Coat
Today the welding was completed at Ride & Show Engineering, and the frames were delivered to Central Powder coating. The picture below shows us with the kind folks at Ride & Show.
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Robot Hanging
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Control Board
Update: Here’s the newer revision of the control board. I’ve added an ethernet port and a female barrel plug for the Classmate PC. Here’s the first revision of the control board with a suggestion of buttons and functions. We will be using this LED w/Defuser(Red and blue??)
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Roller Prototyping Progress
Today, we continued prototyping dual roller systems. We worked hard to emulate the drawings we had, but still found minimal success with the belt-driven systems. The faster the rollers were moving, the better the results. However, if the rollers were moving too fast, the window motors would…
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Robot Chassis Ground
Here’s a few shots of the welded base after having the welds ground flush.
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General Update
We continued to revise the two horizontal-rollers prototype so that it would be ready for proper implementation on the final design. Some of the most recent changes made include a stop, so that the ball is physically limited from entering more than 3 inches into our robot. Unfortunately in the…
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Prototyping Progress
Dual horizontal rollers with tennis racquet grip tape = money. Team 254 finally finished the initial prototype for dual horizontal rollers this evening (Based on 148’s prototype) and after much tweaking we found that the rollers held the ball securely and within the limits of the rules. The…
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On the third day…
After calling many fabrication shops in Southern California within a radius of 45 miles, we ended up at the California Polytechnic University, Pomona shop. Our metal forming division was lucky enough to find the proper die to create the 45 degree bends on a 100 ton press brake. Setting up the…
2010 Teams 254/968 Collaborative Build Blog