Success in D.C.?

[Bcahn836]

We had fun in the morning session in D.C. but decided to leave early because everything we accomplished we could have done on our playing field mock up. But it was some what of a training course for our rookies. They learned before and after match processes and some scouting. As far as the robot, the Bot ran good and the drivers as well. We learned alot and will be ready for VCU. I saw many amazing robots,this years competition will be interesting. So how was your trip to D.C.? Success or Failure?

Always,
the kid in the red hat
Team 836

[jacob_dilles]

well, nothing worked. but our team veiws this as a sucess, because for every practice round it saves us a round at richmond.

at first i had forgoten to plug the drive train back in, and the radio was pluged into the program port. the next time our driver tried to go up the 6" with the lift up and fliped our bot. our third match we had a dead battery, so everything worked fine till it ran out of juice and left us stitting there, holding the 2x ball, with not enugh power to even drive foward to cap the goal.

lessons learned:
check ALL connectors
check and replace battery before EVERY match
bring spare batterys and chargers
double check everything

hope to see you all in richmond

[Bcahn836]

Same here we kept fogetting little things that turned into big things. On one round our arm would not open or close because we forgot to tighten a set screw, the next match we forgot the radio and the next match we could not find our driver, so we decided to leave. All of these mistakes cannot happen at VCU and I will make sure of that.
Can't wait untill VCU.

Always,
the kid in the red hat
Team 836

[ReggieB]

449 did well, one of two to make the chinup there!
A question about the competition box- The ones on the field didnt work, and we had to use dongles. The dongle we had aparently did not work, but it was made with the diagram on the IFI site. Can someone with a dongle that worked in DC tell me their pinout?

I also thought it was interesting that only like 2 teams brought teather cables. We forgot, the team next to us forgot, and we had many people ask to borrow one. Oh well.

[Bcahn836]

We thought we forgot our teather, but we just didn't look hard enough untill I was looking for some allen wrenches in the bottom of our tool box, and their it was our teather. so after asking just about all of the team there for a teather we found it, and we blamed our programmer for misplacing it. LOL

DON'T FORGET THE TEATHER!!!!

Always,
the kid in the red hat
Team 836

[Sachiel7]

It was a great success for our team.
We worked out a few kinks in our drive that are now keeping us up and running well. We also found out many details about how the game may turn out being played, and we found out that we can only do certain things in a certain position... ;)
All in all, it was definitially worth the 2.5 hour drive. We had a great time.
See you at VCU! :D

[Greg Needel]

i am taking a shot in the dark here but was team 768 there and if they were how did they do?