Hallry
27-09-2013, 18:42
Posted on the FRC Blog, 9/27/13: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/blog-Registration-Beta-Test-and-Frank-Answers-Fridays
Registration, Beta Test and Frank Answers Fridays
Blog Date:
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 14:11
Registration
As of midnight last night, we had 1,565 teams registered for their first event. This is a 24% increase from the same time last year, and that’s good news.
Some of you have noted that the opening of registration went very smoothly this year. The FIRST IT department made several changes to equipment and software, and did substantial testing, to help ensure teams experienced minimal delay. I was told what the changes were, but honestly didn’t understand all the terms being used. (What exactly is an ambiphasient lunar wane shaft?) However, I was in IT Mission Control, where registration was being monitored, when things kicked off, and there was much pizza being eaten and many happy noises being made, so things looked good on our side too!
http://www.usfirst.org/sites/default/files/uploadedFiles/Robotics_Programs/FRC/Game_and_Season__Info/2013/Frank_at_IT.jpg
Frank looking at registration numbers
[The FRC Director (on left, with bald spot) stares uncomprehendingly at a monitor while happy IT folks (out of shot) sing, eat pizza, and Morris dance.]
Beta Test
The 2014 Beta Test teams (http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/blog-beta-testing) have been selected. Congratulations to the teams below! These teams will be helping the FRC Control System team review the software libraries and build new code to share with all teams. Beta testing the changes for 2014 is a key part of the FRC Control System development cycle, and we thank these teams in advance for all of their help!
Some of the items Beta teams will be asked to test include:
New installation bundles for the Driver Station, NI Utilities, and LabVIEW Update
New features of the Driver Station including:
Improved setting and checking network settings
A display for WPILib version number on the code running on the robot
New features of the Smart Dashboard including a record/playback feature to record video and dashboard variables to a file and play them back onto the dashboard later.
A new, reformatted version of the LabVIEW Dashboard which also includes record/playback.
Bug fixes and improvements to C++ and Java libraries including Network Tables, Serial Port, I2C, Gyro, Encoder, Counter, Button, SPI and more.
All FRC teams will be able to communicate with the Beta Test teams on the forums. (http://forums.usfirst.org/forumdisplay.php?1554-2014-FRC-Beta-Test)
Testing Java:
Team # Team Nickname City State Country
11 MORT Mt. Olive NJ USA
254 The Cheesy Poofs San Jose CA USA
340 Greater Rochester Robotics Rochester NY USA
694 StuyPulse New York NY USA
868 TechHOUNDS Carmel IN USA
1241 THEORY6 Mississauga ON Canada
1245 MoHi Shazbots Louisville CO USA
1533 Triple Strange Greensboro NC USA
1711 The RAPTORS Traverse City MI USA
1772 The Brazilian Trail Blazers Gravatai RS Brazil
2601 Steel Hawks Queens NY USA
2648 Infinite Loop Oakland ME USA
2713 iRaiders Melrose MA USA
2974 Walton Robotics Marietta GA USA
3018 Nordic Storm St. Peter MN USA
3310 Black Hawk Robotics Heath TX USA
3506 YETI Charlotte NC USA 3528
Up Next Kansas City MO USA
3847 Spectrum Houston TX USA
4579 RoboEagles Federal Way WA USA
Testing LabVIEW:
Team # Team Nickname City State Country
115 MVRT Cupertino CA USA
359 Hawaiian Kids Waialua HI USA
624 CRyptonite Katy TX USA
1038 Lakota Robotics Liberty Township OH USA
1071 Team Max Wolcott CT USA
1225 Gorillas Hendersonville NC USA
1912 Team Combustion Slidell LA USA
2283 Panteras Mexico City D.F. Mexico
2341 Sprockets Shawnee OK USA
2486 CocoNuts Flagstaff AZ USA
2600 Falcons Oak Ridge NJ USA
2614 MARS Morgantown WV USA
2990 Hotwire Aumsville OR USA
3009 High Scalers Boulder City NV USA
3211 The Y Team Yeruham Southern Israel
3288 Punchers Big Piney WY USA
4004 MARS Rovers Muskegon MI USA
4050 4-H Biohazard Chambersburg PA USA
4265 Secret City Wildbots Oak Ridge TN USA
4400 Cerbotics Torreon Coah. Mexico
Testing C/C++:
Team # Team Nickname City State Country
156 RPM - Robotics Plus Mayhem Fairview PA USA
288 288 RoboDawgs / 216 More RoboDawgs / 244 RoboDawgs 3D Grandville MI USA
422 The Mech Tech Dragons Richmond VA USA
1511 Rolling Thunder Rochester NY USA
1741 Red Alert Robotics Greenwood IN USA
1816 The Green Machine Edina MN USA
2135 Presentation Invasion San Jose CA USA
2175 The Fighting Calculators Woodbury MN USA
3081 Kennedy RoboEagles Bloomington MN USA
3318 GSMST Robodragons Lawrenceville GA USA
3322 Eagle Imperium Ann Arbor MI USA
3324 Metrobots Columbus OH USA
3481 Bronc Botz Helotes TX USA
3547 Virus Monroe MI USA
4069 Lo-Ellen Robotics Sudbury ON Canada
4452 First Noble Team Seneca SC USA
4454 Rocketeers Philadelphia PA USA
4470 TiGears Placentia CA USA
4774 LAN Downunder Sydney NSW Australia
4786 Nicolet F.E.A.R. Glendale WI USA
Frank Answers Fridays
I don’t have a ‘Frank Answers Fridays’ this week. Plenty of good questions still in the hopper (keep them coming!), but I have other tasks vying for my attention today. We’ll have one next week.
I’ll blog again soon.
Frank
Stupid tables...congrats to all of the 2014 Beta Test Teams though! :D
Registration, Beta Test and Frank Answers Fridays
Blog Date:
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 14:11
Registration
As of midnight last night, we had 1,565 teams registered for their first event. This is a 24% increase from the same time last year, and that’s good news.
Some of you have noted that the opening of registration went very smoothly this year. The FIRST IT department made several changes to equipment and software, and did substantial testing, to help ensure teams experienced minimal delay. I was told what the changes were, but honestly didn’t understand all the terms being used. (What exactly is an ambiphasient lunar wane shaft?) However, I was in IT Mission Control, where registration was being monitored, when things kicked off, and there was much pizza being eaten and many happy noises being made, so things looked good on our side too!
http://www.usfirst.org/sites/default/files/uploadedFiles/Robotics_Programs/FRC/Game_and_Season__Info/2013/Frank_at_IT.jpg
Frank looking at registration numbers
[The FRC Director (on left, with bald spot) stares uncomprehendingly at a monitor while happy IT folks (out of shot) sing, eat pizza, and Morris dance.]
Beta Test
The 2014 Beta Test teams (http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/blog-beta-testing) have been selected. Congratulations to the teams below! These teams will be helping the FRC Control System team review the software libraries and build new code to share with all teams. Beta testing the changes for 2014 is a key part of the FRC Control System development cycle, and we thank these teams in advance for all of their help!
Some of the items Beta teams will be asked to test include:
New installation bundles for the Driver Station, NI Utilities, and LabVIEW Update
New features of the Driver Station including:
Improved setting and checking network settings
A display for WPILib version number on the code running on the robot
New features of the Smart Dashboard including a record/playback feature to record video and dashboard variables to a file and play them back onto the dashboard later.
A new, reformatted version of the LabVIEW Dashboard which also includes record/playback.
Bug fixes and improvements to C++ and Java libraries including Network Tables, Serial Port, I2C, Gyro, Encoder, Counter, Button, SPI and more.
All FRC teams will be able to communicate with the Beta Test teams on the forums. (http://forums.usfirst.org/forumdisplay.php?1554-2014-FRC-Beta-Test)
Testing Java:
Team # Team Nickname City State Country
11 MORT Mt. Olive NJ USA
254 The Cheesy Poofs San Jose CA USA
340 Greater Rochester Robotics Rochester NY USA
694 StuyPulse New York NY USA
868 TechHOUNDS Carmel IN USA
1241 THEORY6 Mississauga ON Canada
1245 MoHi Shazbots Louisville CO USA
1533 Triple Strange Greensboro NC USA
1711 The RAPTORS Traverse City MI USA
1772 The Brazilian Trail Blazers Gravatai RS Brazil
2601 Steel Hawks Queens NY USA
2648 Infinite Loop Oakland ME USA
2713 iRaiders Melrose MA USA
2974 Walton Robotics Marietta GA USA
3018 Nordic Storm St. Peter MN USA
3310 Black Hawk Robotics Heath TX USA
3506 YETI Charlotte NC USA 3528
Up Next Kansas City MO USA
3847 Spectrum Houston TX USA
4579 RoboEagles Federal Way WA USA
Testing LabVIEW:
Team # Team Nickname City State Country
115 MVRT Cupertino CA USA
359 Hawaiian Kids Waialua HI USA
624 CRyptonite Katy TX USA
1038 Lakota Robotics Liberty Township OH USA
1071 Team Max Wolcott CT USA
1225 Gorillas Hendersonville NC USA
1912 Team Combustion Slidell LA USA
2283 Panteras Mexico City D.F. Mexico
2341 Sprockets Shawnee OK USA
2486 CocoNuts Flagstaff AZ USA
2600 Falcons Oak Ridge NJ USA
2614 MARS Morgantown WV USA
2990 Hotwire Aumsville OR USA
3009 High Scalers Boulder City NV USA
3211 The Y Team Yeruham Southern Israel
3288 Punchers Big Piney WY USA
4004 MARS Rovers Muskegon MI USA
4050 4-H Biohazard Chambersburg PA USA
4265 Secret City Wildbots Oak Ridge TN USA
4400 Cerbotics Torreon Coah. Mexico
Testing C/C++:
Team # Team Nickname City State Country
156 RPM - Robotics Plus Mayhem Fairview PA USA
288 288 RoboDawgs / 216 More RoboDawgs / 244 RoboDawgs 3D Grandville MI USA
422 The Mech Tech Dragons Richmond VA USA
1511 Rolling Thunder Rochester NY USA
1741 Red Alert Robotics Greenwood IN USA
1816 The Green Machine Edina MN USA
2135 Presentation Invasion San Jose CA USA
2175 The Fighting Calculators Woodbury MN USA
3081 Kennedy RoboEagles Bloomington MN USA
3318 GSMST Robodragons Lawrenceville GA USA
3322 Eagle Imperium Ann Arbor MI USA
3324 Metrobots Columbus OH USA
3481 Bronc Botz Helotes TX USA
3547 Virus Monroe MI USA
4069 Lo-Ellen Robotics Sudbury ON Canada
4452 First Noble Team Seneca SC USA
4454 Rocketeers Philadelphia PA USA
4470 TiGears Placentia CA USA
4774 LAN Downunder Sydney NSW Australia
4786 Nicolet F.E.A.R. Glendale WI USA
Frank Answers Fridays
I don’t have a ‘Frank Answers Fridays’ this week. Plenty of good questions still in the hopper (keep them coming!), but I have other tasks vying for my attention today. We’ll have one next week.
I’ll blog again soon.
Frank
Stupid tables...congrats to all of the 2014 Beta Test Teams though! :D