Who's ready for San Jose?

[KTBSPASonya858]

For those of you who are going to San Jose and are you ready for it?

[activemx]

up we are getting ready for san jose, after major brainstorming over the current state of our robot we are going to have a major upgrade on our robot at San jose and going to build a winch from scratch on thursday.

[James114]

we will be, but with a few modifications, making our hanging arm a bit longer. and improving our ball bumper.

[KTBSPASonya858]

Good luck to all of you :D

[Bill Gold]

up we are getting ready for san jose, after major brainstorming over the current state of our robot we are going to have a major upgrade on our robot at San jose and going to build a winch from scratch on thursday.
I'm glad to hear you guys are going to hang at SVR, Akshay.

258 will be competing at SVR, but we'll be mad scrambling on Thursday to add potentiometers to our arm and make sure our electronics / programming is in the shape we want it. We're looking forward to seeing ChiefDelphi out here in California, and we hope that all the teams from out of the area have a great time here. See you all in a little over a week!

[michelleL]

Hehehe...thanks! As a team member of Chief Delphi...we're happy to be getting the chance to come out there to California. We are looking forward to meeting most of the West Coast teams there in San Jose! Also, we are excited about this event as long as Nationals! See everyone in a week!!!!! :D

[FRED-D]

I can't wait until San Jose... and as a member of chiefdelphi I can't wait to go to California for my first time. it shuold be an exciting event and you never know what can happen!!! :D

[Christina47]

I agree with the first two entries. This is a FIRST timer that we, Chief Delphi, is actually going to the West coast instead of staying in the Mid West. I hope to see all the teams that are going to be there. That means, more friends and new faces. :)

[FotoPlasma]

Heh. I find it funny that most of the replies to this thread are by members of 47. I hope we put on a good show for y'all. :)

I'm mostly scared that we won't work, but other than that, I'm looking forward to SVR a lot.

[KTBSPASonya858]

I agree with the first two entries. This is a FIRST timer that we, Chief Delphi, is actually going to the West coast instead of staying in the Mid West. I hope to see all the teams that are going to be there. That means, more friends and new faces. :)


Is this really the first time that our team as went to a regional outside the midwest, expect for Huston and Orlando.

[Salik Syed]

I'm READY!!!!....btw when i heard of 47 coming i was excited...thats cool...welcome to CA
we will probly work on the arm and rig up current sensors for our planetary puedo CVT This time WE WILL HANG :D (hopefully)

[KTBSPASonya858]

I'm READY!!!!....btw when i heard of 47 coming i was excited...thats cool...welcome to CA
we will probly work on the arm and rig up current sensors for our planetary puedo CVT This time WE WILL HANG :D (hopefully)


Thanks

[phrozen solyd]

our bot is fine, but all of our members are still exhausted from sacramento!

[KTBSPASonya858]

I'm glad to hear you guys are going to hang at SVR, Akshay.

258 will be competing at SVR, but we'll be mad scrambling on Thursday to add potentiometers to our arm and make sure our electronics / programming is in the shape we want it. We're looking forward to seeing ChiefDelphi out here in California, and we hope that all the teams from out of the area have a great time here. See you all in a little over a week!


Where looking forward to see all of you guys out there too.

[Christina47]

Heh. I find it funny that most of the replies to this thread are by members of 47. I hope we put on a good show for y'all. :)

I'm mostly scared that we won't work, but other than that, I'm looking forward to SVR a lot.

Hey, you should be glad. We're excited about San Jose and of course, you are too! =) See you there buddy!

[Ken Leung]

For those of you who are going to San Jose and are you ready for it?

Silicon Valley Regional is going to be very exciting this year! There will be at least 2 regional winners, team 47 and team 254, and one of the Sacramento regional finalist, team 1120, at this completition, plus many othe teams that did very well at Sacramento Regional, Portland Regional, Arizona Regional, and winners from previous year's California Robot Game, team 258, 852.

Personally, its going to be great seeing the WRRF teams competing again. Teams from out of state may not know about WRRF, but Western Region Robotics Forum has been an organization of teams in the Bay Area who got together a few years ago and decided that as a group, we can better support Robotics education related programs out here. There are lots of great people to meet , you simply have to go around the pit area and talk to them.

Oh yeah, by the way, I will be there at the scoring table stressing out as usual :P. It will be fun score keeping at the oldest West Coast regional since it got started in 1999. I simply cannot believe 5 years ago I was only of the clueless kids standing with the team cheering for our robot.

Its definitely going to be cool!

*edit* Also, for those of you who are interested, I put together a package for the competing teams with a bunch of info for the area around the regional venue. Check them out at these links:

Part 1: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/papers.php?s=&action=single&paperid=265

Part 2: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/papers.php?s=&action=single&paperid=266

You just can't be too prepared for a FIRST competition ;-).

*edit*

[Cory]

Team 100 will be there, with a robot performing better than last place :-P

Dont be surprised if you see us with an entirely new drive system.

Cory

[akracefreak]

Hey everyone, team 568 cant wait for the regional to start! See you all there.

[Marjory Frosty]

*edit* Also, for those of you who are interested, I put together a package for the competing teams with a bunch of info for the area around the regional venue. Check them out at these links:

Part 1: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/papers.php?s=&action=single&paperid=265

Part 2: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/papers.php?s=&action=single&paperid=266

You just can't be too prepared for a FIRST competition ;-).

*edit*

Thank You.

I have been trying to put some stuff together for this Reginal. As some of the students said we have never been out to the West Cost yet, we usualy stay in the Mid-West or East Cost area. I am a little nervous going to CA
"blindfolded" :ahh: . I look forward to seeing great things and great teams next weekend.

Frosty

[KTBSPASonya858]

Hey everyone, team 568 cant wait for the regional to start! See you all there.


I can't wait either there like maybe 6 or 7 teams going to SVR who are not from Califorina.

[Ken Leung]

Thank You.

I have been trying to put some stuff together for this Reginal. As some of the students said we have never been out to the West Cost yet, we usualy stay in the Mid-West or East Cost area. I am a little nervous going to CA
"blindfolded" :ahh: . I look forward to seeing great things and great teams next weekend.

Frosty

Don't worry, when I came here from Hong Kong 9 years ago, I thought there was going to be orange trees and beaches everywhere, blinding sun shine day and night, Hippies all over the place trying to convert you into one of them, and everyone surf and call each other dudes. Oh, and I also thought everyone was a vegetarian and a part of Green peace. Well, turns out most of that were true.

But I survived. And if I can do it, so can you ;-).

You will see that the west coast have a different pace than most Midwest, Michigan, and east coast regionals. But I must say I’ve always like west coast competition the best, even after visiting IRI. Statistically, there are fewer engineers on teams here, more high school teacher as mentors, and more student run teams. But we are slowly convincing that successful programs need a close relationship between high school students and mentors, so student ran teams have more and more mentors helping them now.

Don’t be afraid to go around meeting people. There are a lot of great mentors and FIRST-a-holic at SVR who aren’t active on the Chief Delphi Forum. Its mostly because we communicate through the WRRF mailing list and meetings.

[Bill Gold]

I've got a couple questions for the teams from outside the San Jose Bay Area. When do you all get into town? And how many team members are you bringing?

See you all soon!

[akracefreak]

Hey, we're leaving alaska on wednesday afternoon and getting to SVR that evening. For us, its a big team this year, a whole whoppin 10 people! (students that is) haha. Another team from anchorage is coming down but i dont know how many people they are bringing. We're all stayin at NASA....i think...

[michelleL]

I've got a couple questions for the teams from outside the San Jose Bay Area. When do you all get into town? And how many team members are you bringing?

See you all soon!


Team 47 is arriving to San Jose on Wednesday noon(ish) to tour around town for that day. We will be having 27 student members coming..(thats our entire team minus coaches and engineers)

[KTBSPASonya858]

Hey, we're leaving alaska on wednesday afternoon and getting to SVR that evening. For us, its a big team this year, a whole whoppin 10 people! (students that is) haha. Another team from anchorage is coming down but i dont know how many people they are bringing. We're all stayin at NASA....i think...


Is your team doing anything special when you get to San Jose?

[akracefreak]

Is your team doing anything special when you get to San Jose?

Not that I know of. I think we're just takin it easy for the day and getting our heads together. But I dunno, we'll see when we get there. Maybe our teams can get together and do something? :cool:

[Christina47]

Not that I know of. I think we're just takin it easy for the day and getting our heads together. But I dunno, we'll see when we get there. Maybe our teams can get together and do something? :cool:

That sounds like an awesome idea. Whoops* Don't know how that word came out. See you in San Jose! :p

[akracefreak]

Wheres team Delphi staying at?

[KTBSPASonya858]

Wheres team Delphi staying at?

The Marriot

[KTBSPASonya858]

Not that I know of. I think we're just takin it easy for the day and getting our heads together. But I dunno, we'll see when we get there. Maybe our teams can get together and do something? :cool:

That would be nice it will give us a chance to get to know each other. And I don't think that our coaches will mind if the whole team sits down and goes to dinner or something.

[akracefreak]

The Marriot

I have no clue where that is in relation to NASA so i guess we'll talk more later or cya walking around town. Getting together seems like a fun idea, i must say. :D

[KTBSPASonya858]

Hey, we're leaving alaska on wednesday afternoon and getting to SVR that evening. For us, its a big team this year, a whole whoppin 10 people! (students that is) haha. Another team from anchorage is coming down but i dont know how many people they are bringing. We're all stayin at NASA....i think...


There are only 10 people on your team? Or is that how many students that are going?

[FRED-D]

I also agree on it being a good idea...as long as we have time in our schedule to hang out. :D

[akracefreak]

True, time is of the essence. To answer the previous post, there are 10 students going down. For us, thats pretty big. This was the biggest year so far, i think. Robotics up here isnt the greatest and there is a major lack of resources and such. Also traveling with us are 2 or 3 parents, a teacher, and a school advisor.

[KTBSPASonya858]

oh

[Bill Gold]

The Marriot is about 3-4 blocks from the SJSU campus, and NASA Ames Research Center is approx. 20-30 minutes away from SJSU by freeway. There are lots of locals who could act as chauffers, myself included, if people wanted to get together. I'm going to look into hosting some sort of party at 258's high school (about a 10 minute drive on surface streets from SJSU) on either Thursday, Friday, or Saturday night. I'll check the availability of the gym (where we've hosted roller hockey and pizza parties in the past) sometime today or tomorrow.

[KTBSPASonya858]

The Marriot is about 3-4 blocks from the SJSU campus, and NASA Ames Research Center is approx. 20-30 minutes away from SJSU by freeway. There are lots of locals who could act as chauffers, myself included, if people wanted to get together. I'm going to look into hosting some sort of party at 258's high school (about a 10 minute drive on surface streets from SJSU) on either Thursday, Friday, or Saturday night. I'll check the availability of the gym (where we've hosted roller hockey and pizza parties in the past) sometime today or tomorrow.


Yeah one of our coaches told us the Marriot was only a few blocks from SJSU. So where walking, I hope the weather's nice.

[Christina47]

Oh wow. So much excitement about San Jose. Especially from us, Chief Delphi. Six more days and we're out of this crummy weather. Hopefully the weather over there will be better then here. Of course! :D Hope to see you there.

[Christina47]

The Marriot is about 3-4 blocks from the SJSU campus, and NASA Ames Research Center is approx. 20-30 minutes away from SJSU by freeway. There are lots of locals who could act as chauffers, myself included, if people wanted to get together. I'm going to look into hosting some sort of party at 258's high school (about a 10 minute drive on surface streets from SJSU) on either Thursday, Friday, or Saturday night. I'll check the availability of the gym (where we've hosted roller hockey and pizza parties in the past) sometime today or tomorrow.

Are you sure, a party? Or is more like a team social? Just curious.

[KTBSPASonya858]

Oh wow. So much excitement about San Jose. Especially from us, Chief Delphi. Six more days and we're out of this crummy weather. Hopefully the weather over there will be better then here. Of course! :D Hope to see you there.


I know pray that it's sunny and not raniy like it is here. And don't forget to bring your camera(s) guys.

[KTBSPASonya858]

The Marriot is about 3-4 blocks from the SJSU campus, and NASA Ames Research Center is approx. 20-30 minutes away from SJSU by freeway. There are lots of locals who could act as chauffers, myself included, if people wanted to get together. I'm going to look into hosting some sort of party at 258's high school (about a 10 minute drive on surface streets from SJSU) on either Thursday, Friday, or Saturday night. I'll check the availability of the gym (where we've hosted roller hockey and pizza parties in the past) sometime today or tomorrow.


If there is a charge how much is it. And do you know how far it is from The Marriot.

[akracefreak]

Nerd party sounds awesome :D Im with delphi on the weather, hope its nice over there! Bill, thanks for giving us a better idea of the area.

[Roland]

We're ready! Yes, the weather is going to be nice (http://www.weather.com/weather/detail/USCA0993?dayNum=8).

[Bill Gold]

If there is a charge how much is it. And do you know how far it is from The Marriot.
There won't be a charge (but then again, we probably won't have gourmet food). Our school is located at
555 Dana Ave.
San Jose, CA 95126

Here are mapquest directions from the Marriot to Lincoln High School.
http://www.mapquest.com/directions/main.adp?go=1&do=nw&1tabval=address&2tabval=address&1sbx=0&cl=EN&un=m&2sbx=0&ct=NA&bs.x=0&bs.y=0&bs=bs&1y=US&1a=+301+South+Market+Street&1c=&1s=&1z=95113&2y=US&2a=555+Dana+Ave.&2c=&2s=&2z=95126&formtype1=address&formtype2=address&idx=0&id=406223be-0000b-06545-400c330a&aid=406223be-0000c-06545-400c330a

Nerd party sounds awesome :D ... Bill, thanks for giving us a better idea of the area.
No Problem, akracefreak. I'll get back to you all tomorrow about the specific date of the "party." If anyone else from out of town has any questions, there are tons of locals on these boards who would love to help you out.

[KTBSPASonya858]

We're ready! Yes, the weather is going to be nice (http://www.weather.com/weather/detail/USCA0993?dayNum=8).


Ok thanks

[KTBSPASonya858]

There won't be a charge (but then again, we probably won't have gourmet food). Our school is located at
555 Dana Ave.
San Jose, CA 95126

Here are mapquest directions from the Marriot to Lincoln High School.
http://www.mapquest.com/directions/main.adp?go=1&do=nw&1tabval=address&2tabval=address&1sbx=0&cl=EN&un=m&2sbx=0&ct=NA&bs.x=0&bs.y=0&bs=bs&1y=US&1a=+301+South+Market+Street&1c=&1s=&1z=95113&2y=US&2a=555+Dana+Ave.&2c=&2s=&2z=95126&formtype1=address&formtype2=address&idx=0&id=406223be-0000b-06545-400c330a&aid=406223be-0000c-06545-400c330a


No Problem, akracefreak. I'll get back to you all tomorrow about the specific date of the "party." If anyone else from out of town has any questions, there are tons of locals on these boards who would love to help you out.

Ok thanks for the info.

[Vivelation]

can't wait can't wait can't wait can't wait can't wait! :D

looking forward to meeting Chief Delphi and the teams from Alaska (and yep, the weather's great here... right now, it's pretty much summer :cool: )

oh yeah, we're pretty much ready robot-wise - just need our shirts and the hair dye, and we're good to go

[codeoftherobot]

We're not too far away--just a hop, skip and a slog through rush hour traffic from Sacramento. :p We normally drive down the day before..early in order to avoid the traffic. Go to school for two periods, leave around lunch, make it to our hotel and relax, normally with a DDR tournament or Halo party. I love hotels. :D

[akracefreak]

Cant wait to meet all the teams down there. Speaking of being ready...AH! We still have the programming to work out, and possibly a dead reckoning system. Man, the pressure is on. On top of that, we need to pack our tools and such, and also finish building our OI. With the first one, we tried to drill another slot for a switch but the whole lexan sheet cracked everywhere. But whats a little fun without a headache, eh?

Also, does anyone from the area know of any fun places or things to do around the NASA area thats within possible walking distance?

[Cory]

There isn't really much around Ames that I recall... You've got to go into San Jose/Mountain View to do stuff. Im sure there will be plently of people heading out to random food courts/restaurants/etc to hang out after competition each day. If you can get back to Moffett awhile after the competition ends, there will be plenty to do with other teams.

Cory

[luciano841]

841 will be there
SVR is going to be so much fun :D
were going to build an arm from scratch on thursday to pick up the 2x ball
mayb something to hang if we havent gone over weight :confused:

[akracefreak]

841 will be there
SVR is going to be so much fun :D
were going to build an arm from scratch on thursday to pick up the 2x ball
mayb something to hang if we havent gone over weight :confused:

Speed holes to the rescue! :D

[phrozen solyd]

Also, does anyone from the area know of any fun places or things to do around the NASA area thats within possible walking distance?

Our team works on the base itself, so just ask any one of us...we know the area pretty well ;)

Cory's right - there's not much to do on base, just a McDonald's...most of the fun stuff is actually just a few minutes down the road in downtown Mountain View

[akracefreak]

Our team works on the base itself, so just ask any one of us...we know the area pretty well ;)

Cory's right - there's not much to do on base, just a McDonald's...most of the fun stuff is actually just a few minutes down the road in downtown Mountain View

Thanks for the info. Must be nice workin on the base itself. This year we moved into our new school and out from a parents garage! haha. Ive seen your bot in action....very nice. Hope we're partners! :p

[luciano841]

Speed holes to the rescue! :D


wish we could but theres barely any rooom for speed wholes :ahh:

[akracefreak]

The way i see it, speed holes can go anywhere! Throughout the build season i came up with a great way to save lots of weight....speed holes in the battery, pneumatics, air storage tanks, and in the compressor itself! :D

[luciano841]

lols sounds like a great idea

everyone better watch out for the swiss cheese of doom

[akracefreak]

Does anyone know how the rooms are like at the NASA center? Just wondering. Also, are there supermarkets and such nearby?

[ejSabathia]

Does anyone know how the rooms are like at the NASA center? Just wondering. Also, are there supermarkets and such nearby?

the room are military dorm rooms...and they are fitting for the price you paid.. :D.from what i hear they aren't "all" that bad.

And like adrian said our team's lab is on base..so maybe you can get adrian and some of the other guys to show you around the area and/or get you a tour of our lab.

~ej

[akracefreak]

That would be great, thanks.

[luciano841]

NOOOOOO :ahh:
due to some problems we might not end up going
so sad :(


i hope we still are going
ill find out tommorrow for sure

[Jeff Sharpe]

Montana's only team, #473, is ready and rarin to go!
No goat cheese this year since food handouts have been nixed.
Maybe we'll bring containers for bolt storage.

We're staying in Santa Cruz to maximize our beach (and boardwalk) time since FIRST doesn't want us working in all-night metal shops even if they are open to all teams. Oh well. We plan to hook up a skimboard with 2 runners for carving and rooster-tailing in the surf! Ya'll are always welcome to come join us there for a look at old surfer's paradise! There's a surfboard museum at the point, and its the closet decent swim you'll find in the Pacific.

We're also considering attempting a hand rebuilt on Thursday so we can use big blue irrigation work gloves to match the new cowboy hat we're bringing for our robot "Dixie". We hope to be even more serious competitors than we were in Portland (where only a couple bad breaks kept us from stardom).

Excited to see you all next week! J# et al

[KTBSPASonya858]

NOOOOOO :ahh:
due to some problems we might not end up going
so sad :(


i hope we still are going
ill find out tommorrow for sure


I hope your teams get's to go.

[luciano841]

thanx I hope so to
it be great to play with you guys been reading about you guys alot here in the forums

i hope everything gets straighten out
ill find out what seems to be the problem in like 2 hours and 30 mins
thats to long to wait

SVR looks like its going to be a great regional and i would dislike it very much if we miss it

[Mike_richardson]

Team 852 (http://athenianrobotics.org) is ready for San Jose. Looking forward to seeing you all there! Good luck to all of you!

[Rhs953]

Yea we are ready. We entered our robot in tip-top shape. And we even test drove it for 3 days. :) eveything works.

[Damien841]

thanx I hope so to
it be great to play with you guys been reading about you guys alot here in the forums

i hope everything gets straighten out
ill find out what seems to be the problem in like 2 hours and 30 mins
thats to long to wait

SVR looks like its going to be a great regional and i would dislike it very much if we miss it
The problem is is that we don't have enough money. We're trying to get some but we'll probably have only enough for the drivers, human players, and the pit crew(about 8 people). We won't have the team to cheer them on. We might not even go at all to save the money for next year. I really want to go though and so does the rest of the team. Wish us luck!

[akracefreak]

Bummer to hear that. For us, we all to pay our own way.

To team delphi, we're arriving there early in the morning. Do you guys still wanna do something together on wednesday sometime?

Good luck to everyone going.

[FotoPlasma]

Heh. If you're going to be sitting around bored, why not come by SJSU to help set up?

[ducttapejason]

i don't know if i am .... i am going to be the pit admin manager.

[michelleL]

Bummer to hear that. For us, we all to pay our own way.

To team delphi, we're arriving there early in the morning. Do you guys still wanna do something together on wednesday sometime?

Good luck to everyone going.

Well, from my student stand point, I have no clue... You'll have to talk to our coaches about that....

[KTBSPASonya858]

Bummer to hear that. For us, we all to pay our own way.

To team delphi, we're arriving there early in the morning. Do you guys still wanna do something together on wednesday sometime?

Good luck to everyone going.


That would be nice but like Michelle said we will have to check will our coaches.

[Ken Leung]

This is Ken Leung Live from the Scoring table at Silicon Valley Regional! If you have any questions, feel free to post a reply here and ask, or pop me an IM.

This is going to be a good weekend!!!

[JVN]

This is Ken Leung Live from the Scoring table at Silicon Valley Regional! If you have any questions, feel free to post a reply here and ask, or pop me an IM.

This is going to be a good weekend!!!
The webcast keeps going in and out. :(
I guess I may have to do something productive today instead... ahh well.