Team 254: The Cheesy Poofs

2011LOGOMOTION

Slipstream

For the 2011 season, Team 254 competed with Slipstream. The team won the FIRST Championship, Silicon Valley Regional, and San Diego Regional. Slipstream also received the championship Industrial Design Award, and the team received its first Entrepreneurship Award.

Slipstream, Team 254's 2011 FRC robotView full size

Specifications

  1. Six-wheel, two-speed drivetrain (19.8 ft/s in high gear; 7 ft/s in low gear), with lowered center wheels and 3.5 in wheels for a low center of gravity
  2. Two-stage elevator extending more than 9 ft to score at all three levels
  3. Elevator-mounted arm for precise tube pickup and positioning
  4. Dual rollers for intaking and rotating tubes, with sensor-driven grip control
  5. Pneumatic jaw for releasing tubes onto the rack without using the rollers
  6. Fast minibot with an automatically aligning deployment ramp
  7. Elevator and arm macros for semi-autonomous scoring

Results & Awards

  1. San Diego Regional

    Champion

    KPCB Entrepreneurship Award

  2. Silicon Valley Regional

    Champion

    GM Industrial Design Award · Coopertition Award · Abbott Inventor Hall of Fame Award for Shockwave

  3. FIRST Championship

    World Champion · Galileo Division Champion

    GM Industrial Design Award

  4. WRRF CalGames

    Champion · Finalist (Second Robot)

    AMD CAD Award

  5. MadTown Throwdown

    Champion · Finalist (Second Robot)

Winner
2011 San Diego Regional
Winner
2011 Silicon Valley Regional
Winner
2011 Galileo Division
Winner
2011 Championship

Videos

The Game

2011 FRC game image

LOGOMOTION

LOGOMOTION was the game for the 2011 FIRST Robotics Competition. Playing pieces are inner tubes shaped like the components of the FIRST logo. The primary objective of the game is to place them on racks to gain points. In the endgame, robots deploy smaller robots (“minibots”) to climb a tower. Minibots must be made from the FIRST Tech Challenge kit of parts. The game celebrates the 20th season of the FRC and is also meant to commemorate the artist Jack Kamen, who designed the original FIRST logo. Read more on Wikipedia.

2011 FIRST Robotics Competition season