Team 254 Presents: Dropshot

[Pat Fairbank]

Team 254, NASA Ames Robotics "The Cheesy Poofs", proudly presents our 2016 robot: Dropshot.



Dropshot will compete at the Central Valley Regional, Silicon Valley Regional, and FIRST Championship.

Team 254 is sponsored by NASA Ames Research Center, Google, AMEX Plating, Innovation First International, Apple, Orange Vise Company, BAE Systems, Qualcomm, Brin Wojcicki Foundation, Cisco, World Metal Finishing, Applied Welding, West Coast Products, Dropbox, Attivo Networks, HP, Vivid-Hosting, Alien Technology, The Wong Family, The Yun Family, The Magarelli Family, The Kasle Family, and Bellarmine College Preparatory.

[Brandon Holley]

Mindblowing as usual. I didn't count the shots, but that is a lot of scoring in a short period of time...

[Sperkowsky]

No full robot pic? You always gotta leave us wondering.

Great work as always happy to see a video reveal again!

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by Brandon Holley

Mindblowing as usual. I didn't count the shots, but that is a lot of scoring in a short period of time...

7 in 40s

[piersklein]

#TeamBenchGrinder

[EmileH]

#mightactuallybeabenchgrinder

[Dave McLaughlin]

IIRC this will be the Poofs first FRC robot with a turret. I'm excited to see their spin on it.

[rponmalai]

Originally Posted by Dave McLaughlin

IIRC this will be the Poofs first FRC robot with a turret. I'm excited to see their spin on it.

"spin" "turret"
Pun Intended?

[Basel A]

That's the craziest auton I've ever seen

[JohnSchneider]

"Anything that moves sideways is a waste of time."

-Tom Bottiglieri 254

[Rangel]

Originally Posted by JohnSchneider

"Anything that moves sideways is a waste of time."

-Tom Bottiglieri 254

It's very possible they still believe that.

[cjl2625]

Originally Posted by Rangel(kf7fdb)

It's very possible they still believe that.

Yeah, the vision aligning at the end seems too snappy to be from a drivetrain, I'd say it's almost certainly some kind of turret.

[billbo911]

I expected nothing less!

Can't wait to see it in action at CVR and SVR.

EDIT:: Oh yes, 254 is video trackin' if I'm not mistaken. This is a step in a direction you usually don't go. NICE!!!

[dodar]

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

7 in 40s

But that was 7 shots w/o ever crossing the defenses. So those same 7 would still take considerably longer to do in a real manner.

[Anthony Galea]

Is that a turret?