254F History

Team 254F was founded under different principles than the other 254 VEX teams. Each year, 254F sought to find the most innovative defensive solution to the game challenge, implementing mechanisms which attracted the attention of the audience and other teams alike. Much more than members of other teams, 254F participants valued experimentation over effectiveness.

After two years of outside-the-box concepts (but inside-the-sizing-cube implementations), 254F was discontinued in the 2011 season, its founding members having graduated or been incorporated into other Poof teams. The team will be resurrected when enough members who share the above mission have been found.

Members

A: Battery
B: Build
C: Coach
D1: Driver 1 (Driver)
D2: Driver 2 (Operator)
IT: Tech Support, including Webmaster
M: Media (Camera)
P: Programming
S: Scouting
Italics denote an honorary member,
someone not on the team but whose
significant contributions merit recognition.

Shopping Cart '09

• 18 lbs, ~18"x18"x18", dual cube shooter (San Ramon '09 only), held all the cubes in the field
• 1 potentiometer, 1 bumper switch
• 6-motor, 4-wheel drive, top speed 2.18 fps
• 2-motor single-joint arm, 7:1 gearing
• 2-motor dual tank tread intake, 1:3 gearing
• Bonus cube (multi-directional), platform (multi-directional)

Wall (defensive section) '10

• ~30 lbs, ~18"x18"x18", unfolding 12' wall
• 2 pneumatic cylinders
• 0-motor, 4-wheel rubber-band drive, top speed undetermined and unreached, 1:36 gearing
• Molded together with Floyd to start within the 18" sizing cube

Floyd (offensive section) '10

• ~10 lbs, ~16"x16"x18", medium ball manipulator
• 1 potentiometer
• 6-motor, 4-wheel drive, top speed 2.18 fps
• 2-motor single-joint arm, 1:5 gearing
• 2-motor dual tank tread intake, 3:1 gearing
• Molded together with Wall to start within the 18" sizing cube

Outside the Wall '10

• ~10 lbs, ~18"x18"x18", conveyor belt, built upon "High Hopes" - a robot never used in competition
• 2 optical shaft encoders
• 4-motor, 4-wheel drive, top speed 2.4 fps
• 2-motor lower belt, top speed 1.21 fps
• 2-motor upper belt, top speed 1.21 fps
• 2-motor pivoting high-strength gear intake, 1:4 gearing
• Pneumatic gate
• Small and medium ball intake and outtake, white ball outtake