Team 254: The Cheesy Poofs

2015RECYCLE RUSH

Deadlift

For the 2015 season, Team 254 competed with Deadlift. The team won the Silicon Valley and Central Valley Regionals and reached the Carson Division quarterfinals at the FIRST Championship.

Deadlift could build and score stacks of six totes with recycling containers and participate in coopertition.

Deadlift, Team 254's 2015 FRC robotView full size

Specifications

  1. Six-wheel West Coast drivetrain with chain-in-tube construction, four mini-CIM motors, and single-speed gearboxes (12 ft/s top speed)
  2. Two front intake arms with rubber wheels for acquiring totes from the landfill, including totes perpendicular to the robot
  3. Elevator with two independently driven carriages and pneumatic friction brakes for stacking totes, handling upright or horizontal containers, and securing stacks while driving
  4. Tether to a 6 ft RAMPage ramp for stacking six totes in 8 seconds from the human-player station
  5. Consistent autonomous routine scoring three totes and one container
  6. Maximum scoring capability of a coopertition stack and four six-tote stacks with containers, including one container retrieved from the step during teleoperated play

Results & Awards

  1. Central Valley Regional

    Champion

    Quality Award

  2. Silicon Valley Regional

    Champion

    Quality Award · Woodie Flowers Finalist Award (Travis Covington)

  3. FIRST Championship – Carson Division

    Carson Division Quarterfinalist

    Industrial Design Award

  4. Chezy Champs

    Finalist

Winner
2015 Central Valley Regional
Winner
2015 Silicon Valley Regional
Woodie Flowers Finalist Award
2015 Silicon Valley Regional

Videos

The Game

2015 FRC game image

RECYCLE RUSH

RECYCLE RUSH was the game for the 2015 FIRST Robotics Competition. It involves picking up and stacking totes on scoring platforms, putting pool noodles (“litter”) inside recycling containers, and putting the containers on top of scoring stacks of totes. There is also a coopertition aspect of the game where both alliances of teams can pool their totes and stack them on a step dividing the field to each gain twenty points. Along with these robot actions, human players can attempt to throw the pool noodles across the field to gain four points for each noodle left in the opposing alliance’s work zone. Read more on Wikipedia.

2015 FIRST Robotics Competition season