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Mwahaha... summer? Hm... playing DODGEBALL! Get a job... head of a program to teach our team programming. That's about it... and my g/f takes up a ton of my time too... so yeah... summer is almost done and I'll be waiting a year to go to college. Icky!

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well i dont know if i can compete with what erin just said, but heres my projects.....

1. hurry up and get ready to launch "...un named, inc". a joint venture between arefin bari and myself to make available drive trains to first teams that accept AndyMark transmissions, as well as Stock FIRST gearboxes. this may not launch till next summer, but dont give up faith!!

2. as quickly as possible, finish up my billion designs i have for mecanisms. *oh yea, the CVT that nobody has seen before ;) *

3. get my 1965 mustang, and start on that!!


although college starts again soon, i hope to accomplish at least one of these before i go back!

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My List is as follows:

1. Eagle Scout Project... sadly FIRST can't always be first.

2. phpMaid - an open source project I started last yr and will probably release later this yr.

3. I am going to be moving data from the rules I colleted by making FIRSTsearch into an archive on a mysql db

4. I will probably set it up so that other teams will be able to have FIRSTsearch on their team websites... Like how I allowed my team this year.

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Most of team 647's resources have been dedicated to Lego's this summer.
We started a class at our local Boys and Girls Club teaching Lego Mindstorms and in about 2 weeks we are holding a camp at our school for elementary and middle school students that attend our feeder schools who will have Lego league teams next year. Also the camp is one of our members eagle scout project.


I also have been doing some research about some new sensor's and programming.

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I am working at the Georgia Tech Reasearch Institute in Industrial robotics (full time), and i also built a new computer (pics linked from my site, www.alphastryk.com)...
and I am working on 1002s summer projects (the crab, cart, etc... that santosh already mentioned)

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I myself have nothing FIRST-related planned for this summer. However, one of my friends and teammates is designing probably one of the coolest drive system ideas I have ever heard of. He is trying to make it possible for a robot to switch from crab steering to 2 wheel steering to 4 wheel steering to skid steering just by using something similar to a shifter on a car. Also, he wants to be able to use 2 or 4 wheel drive in skid, 2 wheel, and 4 wheel steering. If he pulls this thing off, I am sure we will want to have it on our robot this coming year. Unless... walking robots, anyone? Anyways, it would be one of the coolest drive systems I have ever seen since there would be 7 different drive and steering combinations one could use. Even if it does not make it onto a robot anytime soon, can you imagine a better training device for drivers to use year after year? I give many kudos to my friend for his awesome idea and dedication.

Re: What is your summer project?
 

My project is to get at least ten hours of good music, released under a Creative Commons license, for The Capital Clash, which I'll be DJing for.

Currently, I'm at 39.8 minutes. This'll be a long two weeks.

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make my robot one of the elite :D

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A few people from my team (myself included) may design a crab drive or shifting tank... Otherwise, not too much FIRST related.

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Santosh also forgot to mention the goal of 1002 out reach man hours during the summer which we are close to getting.