Team 1280 - The Ragin' Seabiscuits of San Ramon Valley High School

After almost 6 weeks of diligently working on the robot, Team 1280 is rushing to finish before the deadline. The robot is nearing completion, but still needs the lift to be designed and put on, an autonomous mode, AND practice with the Drive Team. Members of Team 1280 are working until the last minute making sure everything is satisfactory. See you at Silicon Valley!

FIRST Kickoff was on Saturday, January 9th 2010. This year's new game is Breakaway. So far we have brainstormed about what the robot should look like, and what it should do. After many hours spent on CAD, we have successfully fabricated the frame and have built/tested several prototypes for the mechanism. More team updates/pictures to come soon!

Team 1280 has just returned from our recent trip to San Jose. Together with alliance members Team 192 (Gunn Robotics) and Team 1868 (The Space Cookies), we finished second in this very competitive regional.

Here are some video highlights of the regional event!

Three days and 10 or so pizzas later, we have finished programming our autonomous modes. Dr. Brooks likes to call the trial-and-error process "watching the paint dry".

Our autonomous modes this year are based on dead reckoning, which we hope will be all that is necessary to keep orbit balls out of our trailer!



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Our team has been working hard this week; just this Monday, we had no robot. It took us all week to assemble the components we had built, but we fired up the robot for the first time tonight!

Handling the robot on the Regolith was nearly impossible initially, but after scaling down the joystick sensitivity we fared much better.



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Hit the gallery for more photos of the robot!

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