Team 254: The Cheesy Poofs

2005TRIPLE PLAY

Kara

For the 2005 season, Team 254 competed with Kara. The team won the Silicon Valley Regional, reached the FIRST Championship finals, and received Quality Awards at both regionals.

Kara, Team 254's 2005 FRC robot

Specifications

  1. Six-wheel, two-speed drivetrain (14 ft/s in high gear; 7 ft/s in low gear)
  2. Double-jointed arm for grabbing tetras
  3. Autonomous whip for knocking down hanging tetras
  4. Mechanism for grabbing and scoring 2–3 tetras at a time
  5. Loading from both loading stations

Results & Awards

  1. Sacramento Regional

    Finalist

    Motorola Quality Award · Website Award

  2. Silicon Valley Regional

    Champion

    Motorola Quality Award · Website Award

  3. FIRST Championship

    Finalist · Galileo Division Champion

Winner
2005 Silicon Valley Regional
Winner
2005 Galileo Division

Videos

The Game

2005 FRC game image

TRIPLE PLAY

TRIPLE PLAY was the game for the 2005 FIRST Robotics Competition. This game was the first to feature three robots per alliance. The primary game pieces were called “Tetras” which are tetrahedra made from long PVC pipe segments. The game was played on a field set up like a tic-tac-toe board, with nine large tetrahedral goals in three rows of three. The object of the game was to place the scoring tetras on the larger goals, creating rows of three by having a tetra of your alliance’s color at the highest point on the goal. TRIPLE PLAY was a strategically intensive game, requiring quick thinking on the part of the drivers and operators to optimize the field for their alliance. Read more on Wikipedia.

2005 FIRST Robotics Competition season