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526 posts from the build season and beyond.
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2017 Technical Resources Release
Team 254 is proud to present the Technical Binder, Code Release, and Blog Release for our 2017 World Champion winning robot, Misfire. If you have any questions, feel free to comment on the Chief Delphi thread for our code release and our technical binder release.
2017 FRC Build Season · FIRST Robotics · Programming
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Festival of Champions
2017 FRC Class of FIRST Champions Recently, we attended the first ever FIRST Festival of Champions in Manchester, NH. After winning the St. Louis Championship with our extraordinary alliance partners, we faced the Houston Championship winning alliance in an intense series of 5 matches. Alongside…
2017 FRC Build Season
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2017 World Champions!
This past week, we attended the FIRST Robotics Competition Championship in St. Louis. With two Championship events this year, it was hard to decide which to compete at, but we had a great time facing off against teams from the east coast, Canada, and more. Alongside, Team 2767 Stryke Force, Team…
2017 FRC Build Season · Tournaments
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FRC Day 42 Build Blog
Day 42: Preparing for World Championships Quick Summary Everything that we need at competition, which includes the pit, was packed and prepared for being shipped to St. Louis. Robot Progress Shooter We worked on some hood geometry and started to look at the placement of the hanger tube and…
2017 FRC Build Season · Email · Students
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FRC Day 41 Build Blog
Day 41: Improving Gear Scoring Gear Grabber Today we worked on the Cow Catcher, or an assembly that prevents balls from getting stuck in the Gear Grabber and pushes balls out of the way. We began with prototyping with two delrin side plates and a 3/8" standoff, and while the results were promising…
2017 FRC Build Season · Email · Parents · Students
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Silicon Valley Regional Tournament
This past weekend, we competed at the Silicon Valley Regional at San Jose State University. Qualifications Throughout the qualification matches, Misfire performed very well, despite bearing one loss, going 8-1 overall and scoring an average of about 300 points. We focused on a strategy of reaching…
2017 FRC Build Season · Tournaments
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FRC Day 40 Build Blog
Day 40: Improvements for SVR Driving Improvements We added additions to our robot in order to create an easier and more efficient driving environment. We have placed a blue LED strip on the back of the hood to let drivers know whether or not they are in a good shooting proximity. To do so, we […]
2017 FRC Build Season · Email · Parents · Students
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San Francisco Regional Tournament
This past weekend, we competed at the San Francisco Regional at St. Ignatius College Preparatory. Qualifications Throughout the qualification matches, Misfire performed strongly, going 10-0 overall and scoring an average of about 277 points. We focused on a strategy of reaching 40kpa to maximize…
Tournaments
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Misfire Reveal
Team 254 presents our 2017 entry into the FIRST Robotics Competition: Misfire. Misfire will be competing at the inaugural San Francisco Regional, followed by the Silicon Valley Regional and the St. Louis FIRST Championship. More information on the robot.
2017 FRC Build Season · Announcements
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FRC Day 37-39 Build Blog: Preparing for Competition
Days 37, 38, & 39: Preparing For Competition Intake Today, we worked on fixing the intake after it broke earlier this week. After analyzing the strength of our current weldment and modifying it slightly, we decided that simply strengthening it would not help the fundamental problems existing in the…
2017 FRC Build Season · Email · Parents · Students
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FRC Day 36 Build Blog
Day 36: Improving Subsystems Hopper Floor Today we ordered all the the parts for the upper extension of the hopper floor and got majority of the CAD done. We will be going with 50 degree edges made out of Delrin with the first two rollers of the upper extension not having any surgical tubing to […]
2017 FRC Build Season · Email · Parents · Students
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FRC Day 33, 34, & 35 Build Blog
Days 33, 34, & 35: Preparing for Competition Gear Grabber/Driver Practice We worked with the drivers over the weekend, doing basic drills like gear cycling, in order to become accustomed to driving the robot prior to the SFR Competition. We started the day by iterating on the floor for the gear…
2017 FRC Build Season · Email · Parents · Students