Team 254 Presents: Vortex

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Team 254, NASA Ames Robotics “The Cheesy Poofs”, presents our 2024 robot: Vortex.

Vortex will compete at the Sacramento Regional, the East Bay Regional, and (if we qualify) the FIRST Championship.

Team 254 is sponsored by NASA Ames Research Center, Greg & Gloria Shean, West Coast Products, Swerve Drive Specialties, Fabworks, Vivid-Hosting, AMEX Plating, Gilbert Spray Coat, LinkedIn, Johnson & Johnson MedTech, The McNamara Family, Apple, Boeing, BAE Systems, The Gu Family, NVIDIA, Intuitive Foundation, Lockheed Martin, FIRST NorCal, Dropbox, SolidWorks, and Bellarmine College Preparatory.

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cooks

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lol

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Hmm, really starting to notice a trend with the names this year…

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What is the range of motion for the turret? How is the cable snake packaged and tensioned to have such a small form factor?

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names robot Vortex

Not a single NEO Vortex in sight

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Beautiful…

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Looks sick! Is it just me or does it look like you’re squishing notes horizontally this year? Can’t quite tell off a cursory inspection.

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For reference, here’s a pic of 6 similarly sized wheels (width wise) with what I think is significantly wider spacing in between being just about the full width of the note.

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I never asked this question, but you guys always have super hi res images of your robot. How?

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I don’t think I’ve seen this one before…
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Where is the 8 note auto?

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Can you guys tell us how much it weighs?

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Looks to be exactly 125 lbs on their website

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What’s the runout on the turret structure?

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here are the frames of the gif split up

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looks pretty alright

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I’m not on 254, but I’m going to guess that they put a white sheet down as a backdrop, take pictures with a nice camera, and then photoshop the background out.

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illegal degrees of cookage are occuring

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HAWT DARNNN! Y’all cooked very hard this year. It’s hard to tell from the photos, but are y’all still using WCP swerve X? or something custom?

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I never thought to ̶h̶o̶t̶d̶o̶g̶ corndog the notes into the shooter! Neat idea.

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