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Team Blog

Our team regularly blogs about our activities!

What is Team 1280 up to?

FIRST

FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is the non-profit organization that organizes events we participate in.

What is FIRST all about?

Meet the Team

Team 1280 is a lively team of Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors and ex-students from San Ramon Valley High School, in Danville, California.

Who are we?

Achievements

Team 1280 has been participating in FIRST events for 6 years, making many friends and learning much in the process.

What have we accomplished?

Sponsors

Team 1280 is indebted to our kind sponsors for financing our program.

Who supports us?

Programming

Our robots must be programmed to operate both autonomously and under operator control.

How do we program our robots?

Fabrication

We manufacture parts for our robot and put them together in our workshop.

How do we make our robots?

Animation

3-d animations are produced by our team members to promote safety and interest others in technology.

How are our animations made?

Computer Aided Design

Our team designs our robot ahead of time in 3D CAD software to accelerate the fabrication process and avoid mistakes.

How do we design our robots?

Website

Our website software and content is entirely student created. Team 1280 is offering website help to any team that needs it.

How do we manage our website?

The Game

Each year, FIRST presents a new game for the FIRST Robotics Competition. This year, it's Lunacy.

Learn about this year's game

Competition Tracker

Team 1280 is experimenting with a competition tracking system that works with text messaging. Features include a chatroom projected in our pit area, on-demand statistics and live game updates.

Learn about this new system

Our Ragin' Seabiscuit!

Posted by Ben at 2:37pm, 31st Jan 09 in Team Life, with 0 comment(s) and 1 attachments.
Hey Penny!

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Tape Measures

Posted by Ben at 2:00pm, 29th Jan 09 in Team Life, with 0 comment(s) and 1 attachments.
This was the most entertaining activity we could come up with while waiting for the frame to be welded!

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It's a race to the top!

Our world today

Posted by Ben at 6:19pm, 23rd Jan 09 in Interesting, with 0 comment(s) and 1 attachments.
An interesting video with some eye-opening facts about our rapidly changing world.



or watch this on Youtube

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Week 3 Summary

Posted by tasha925 at 8:41pm, 22nd Jan 09 in Build Progress, with 1 comment(s) and 1 attachments.
We have finished an "advanced" prototype, and are very happy with its performance. The animation is slowly coming together, and we are coming up with some new content for our website!

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Week 2 Summary

Posted by tasha925 at 8:25pm, 18th Jan 09 in Build Progress, with 0 comment(s) and 1 attachments.
We welded the frame and are in the process of building a prototype hopper.

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