Swamp Skirmishes 5th and 6th weekends

[Tytus Gerrish]

Swamp Shop Skirmishes
Hosted by Children Of The Swamp #179
Weekends 5 and 6 of build season (February 14-15, and February 21-22) At

Inlet Grove Community High School
7071 Garden Rd
Riviera Beach, FL 33404

This is an Open House Event. All Teams Are Invited and Encouraged to Participate
Events will Include First Frenzy Skirmishes we open our doors at 10:00 AM. We also have a Barbeque Grill witch we will be cooking on (Charred Animal Parts... Yumm:) )

B.Y.O.B. (Bring Your Own Balls)

We realize that making a commitment to come is difficult with the Limited time of build season. If your team would like to Attend, and you believe you Will Be able to, Please post in this thread We Would like to have consensus with as many teams as possible. Updates will be posted On This thread, and on our website www.179swampthing.org (http://www.179swampthing.org) When it becomes Fully Operational

We Hope To See You there

[Matt_Kaplan1902]

I'll make sure to mention it to the people on our team.

[Alexandra Stout]

sounds like a good idea

[Gary Dillard]

Hmmmmmmmm.. that means we would have to have our robot built and running before we ship it on the 24th.

Built.

Running.

I'll have to get back to you on this - the concept of having a functioning robot prior to the first qualifying match is totally new to me.

OK, functioning is such a harsh word. If the light turns does that count? Oh wait, we don't have a rotating light this year..... what about flashing? Flashing is good.

Seth, don't touch that.....

gotta go.

[tiffany34990]

sounds like a really cool idea since u guys have a full field--- well i hope our bot is done by then and we can go---- 26 more days to go---- i'm sure S.P.A.M. will try to get down if we have something to test

[GILLIGAN!!!!!!!]

Ya. You too Gilligan!
lol

I dont think that we could attend those skirmishes until after the nationals, because only after nationals is any robot truly complete, well atleast in our procrastinating cases, but anywho..... ;)

[Noelle]

Yea! Come on- S.P.A.M. will have something to drive by then... maybe? i'm definetlyyyyy into the idea of going to practise

[robot180]

I apolagize for the negativity of my team. However, I think you guys (179) know that our robot gets shipped in the crate in pieces. I guess they assembled it in time, almost in time, for our first match (qualifying, not practice). We appear to be ahead of schedule so far this year, but I shouldn't speak (type) to soon.

To my team: maybe that thing we tested out tonight (thursday night) can be tested even more at that SwampThing event.

Anyways, that would be fun.

[Michael R. Lee]

Yeah we never did have any of our bots in how they looked finally perfected utnil the end did we?

Lexy - took of the ball lift and added a net, provison for a hanging mechanism
3-Bits - always tweaking the arm
Fluffy- Can we say spatula? I took apart that gearbox so many times I can see it my dreams...
Twitch - Always checking the chassis and figurring why the processor was messed up until we turned it over to Innovation FIRST and I gathered it worked fine in Houston.


By the way... these bots were shipped whole. though certain elements like with Lexy her lift and basket didn't work. We always had a bot there.... doesn't mean she's ready for the practice match. I would know, worked pit all 4, ran them the last two. And truely they are the pits of insanity (you gotta be nuts to work there! :D :p :D )

ON A SIDE NOTE:

THANK YOU FOR MAKING ME TAKE APART FLUFFY'S GEARBOXES ON DAY ONE OF KSC REGIONALS AND CHAMPIONSHIPS IN 2002... its helped here in Boston on NUTRONS.... arm gearbox integration woot woot! (shrinking the fisher price gearbox into a rectanuglar prism)

[Nathan Pell]

1083 Is very interested. Why is it two days? Just curious.

Nathan Pell

[Swampdude]

1083 Is very interested. Why is it two days? Just curious.

Nathan Pell
We're fishing for days other teams might be interested in coming. Obviously we'll be there already, and practicing (I hope) so why not have other teams come and practice with us? At the moment we have a half field completed, full center section and 2 mobile goals, 10 small balls and 2 large balls. We didnt build the spill trough yet though. We're just treating it like an open house. Show up around 11, we get there at 10, and we leave at 5. Your welcome to our tools for tweaking etc. We're getting the full field of carpet installed any day now. Please let us know specifically what days you want to come. We'll be there both weekends but we'd like to know what/who to expect. I don't think a huge team showing up would be good, so keep em under 10-15 please.

[Fredo]

Kewlness, I might be able to go the second weekend, it just depends on who all is going....

[Nathan Pell]

We're fishing for days other teams might be interested in coming. Obviously we'll be there already, and practicing (I hope) so why not have other teams come and practice with us? At the moment we have a half field completed, full center section and 2 mobile goals, 10 small balls and 2 large balls. We didnt build the spill trough yet though. We're just treating it like an open house. Show up around 11, we get there at 10, and we leave at 5. Your welcome to our tools for tweaking etc. We're getting the full field of carpet installed any day now. Please let us know specifically what days you want to come. We'll be there both weekends but we'd like to know what/who to expect. I don't think a huge team showing up would be good, so keep em under 10-15 please.
We are thinking about coming the weekend of the 14th if the robot is finished. We are going to another "scrimage" the following weekend on the 22nd. I will bring it up today.

Nathan Pell

[Arefin Bari]

all i can say is ONLY IF the robot is done we will be there...

[Tytus Gerrish]

field status....

Central structure .... Completed and painted (Sides Blue and Green)
ball tee's .... Completed
ball trough .... 1 completed and mounted
driver stations.... 1 wall completed WO Glass
steel pipe barrier .... 40% completed
carpet... On the way From Bargin BOB
Mobile Goals .... Completed and painted (Sides Blue and Green)
IR Beacons .... Being asembled

[Arefin Bari]

are we going to have a full field for this event?

[tiffany34990]

we are suppose to that's what i heard


well we shall see if we ever get there--- have fun building ya'll

[Swampdude]

are we going to have a full field for this event?

We're getting 50' of carpet, and are cramped on one end of the field a little by a giant walk in cooler by 5' for the regulation length. But now that we're getting close to completing the build stage we can re-arrange the room a little to get the full field length. So technically it's possible to have a full field. But if we don't re-arrange it it's only 5' shorter. Might be a problem for autonomous, but if only 1 team shows up at a time, which it's looking like, we can practice together on one side full size and leave the other side short. Or split it 2 1/2' short on each side. Or we'll just scoot things around and get the full length. Eventuelly the school will be getting rid of the cooler and we'll have more then enough room to span the full length plus driver booths. We did build a spill trough this week, on one side, and we'll get started on the other this weeknd, although we only have 10 small balls. Tommorow I'll get a picture of the layout and post it so you can see how it looks.

For those interested, we did a spill test while holding the goal under the trough, and the goal caught 3 balls. But we only spilled 10 out, I think it could of got around 5 max.

[tiffany34990]

as long as we have something to test our bot(hopefully it'll be done soon)--that's all i care and well yeah---- hope our bot is done and well i can go and see it being tested

have fun ya'll

[Tytus Gerrish]

The Field is set and will be Completed in fill and ready for skirmmageing on the 14th If You or your team is considdering Attending at ALL! on the 14th Let us know ASAP you are welcome to Just Show up but we would like to know who we can expect, Admiton is free and Barbecue will be provided Free . To let us know Post in this thread or Email me @ TytusGerrish@Yahoo.com We Can't Wait


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