SLEEP!!!! I am going to catch up on Sleep!!!! and then im gonna go back into the shop and start working on my Battle Bot with my team. One way or another can't get ride of robotics!

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A FIRST team operating a battlebot?

I am hallucinating, hallucinating, hallucinating...

BBIQ
 

Yes,!! there are FIRST teams that operate Battle Bots!! lol
I am on one of them! Out of the 10 kids on my FIRST team, we have 3 different Battle Bot teams! We work with some Engineers that have done FIRST since they were back in High School in 97, and do Battle Bots as well! This is my 2end year doing Battle Bots, but its Battle Bots IQ. Its the High school version. Very similar to the adult version, and my team has one sweet spinner!! One day they will coexists. :ahh:

can u share any more info about this robot IQ program?

Sure!! Well the whole IQ comp is a based around Middle weigh robots! Just like the middle weight division of Battle Bots would be. Also the competition this year will be held April 3rd-7th in California. Need more into?? contact Nola@battlebots.com (National Education Advisor)

What did I do with the time I wasn't working before first?
maybe I .. wait no that was robotics too.. hmm

Re: Robot Shipped!!! what do i do know?
 

You can start thinking about the DARPA Grand Challenge.

Basically, you have a year to design a vehicle that can autonomously drive the roughly 250 miles from Barstow, CA (a town in the Desert, just outside of Los Angeles) to Las Vegas, NV in less than ten hours. The course is a mix of paved street, dirt road, dry lake bed, water crossings, and cross country desert terrain. Did I mention that they don't give you the course waypoints until just two hours before the race starts :ahh:? Oh, and the prize is one million dollars.

I attended the kick-off conference yesterday and found an odd mix of attendees composed of highly starched military brass, professional and amateur robotics geeks, spooky DARPA types, very serious desert off-road racer types, including the CEO of SCORE International, which is the governing body of just about all off-road racing in the world. Oh, yeah, the press was also there. I made the mistake of talking with one of them while they had a tape recorder going :). Looks like the Discovery channel is also gonna do a documentary on this as they had cameras everywhere