Re: 2008 West Michigan Regional
 

One of the only reasons we came up with that defense is because in our first match with you one of the martians somehow had one of our balls cornered. We lost because of that. We also seen a similar defense played by team 1 in Detroit.

Re: 2008 West Michigan Regional
 

If a robot tips and is unable to right itself, and doesn't hit the E-stop then that robot can be called for impeading. No penalty can be called on anyone who hits that robot. directly stated by head the ref at Detroit regional.:ahh:

Re: 2008 West Michigan Regional
 

wow im learning who my team members cd accounts r :)

Re: 2008 West Michigan Regional
 

Thanks Ryan. In our second year we learned a lot. One thing I am proud of as a mentor is the drivers programmed the entire robot. Last summer, when we were getting ready for IRI, I bought a second control system on EBAY. After paying to have it reconditioned, we built a second robot using the remnants of a little kids BARBIE Jeep. There were two Fisher Price Motors in there. Andrew and David, our drivers, spent about 2 weeks programming it and when we started getting ready for IRI, we decided we wanted to try autonomous programming. They threw out our code and rewrote the entire program in Easy C, added autonomous programming with some help from Jeff Beatty and nothing has stopped them from learning. They wrote the tank drive code. They integrated ultrasonic pingers. They integrated the IR board. Andrew and David adjusted the program when we got to the Boiler Maker Regional, compensating for driving on carpet rather than the tile we had practiced on.

Casey, the student who was our Robocoach, welded our entire robot while teaching my daughter and a couple of other students how to weld. His dad is a mechanic and had taught him and he did all the work for our team, teaching other students along the way.

Team Hammond has been a great resource for us and we would not be where we were in our second year without their mentoring. We sincerely thank them for all their help. Brian Beatty ran our alliance and I learned a lot from him. He stressed how important it was to work as a team do your role. 2604 was fantastic in their role. He pointed out that attrition is a big part of doing well in the finals, keeping your machine running match after match and being ready for quick repairs. He made sure each team understood if they had a penalty why it was called to eliminate repeating a mistake. We almost had to call a time out and he explained good strategy on using timeouts. A great experience for me as a mentor.

Re: 2008 West Michigan Regional
 

hey does any one know what happened to team 2337`s hammer the last match they played it only worked once.:confused:

Re: 2008 West Michigan Regional
 

There were no technical problems during the last few matches, we just were defensed too well.

We had one match earlier in the day when the fuse for our compressor blew, so we were unable to use the hammer.

Re: 2008 West Michigan Regional
 

Also our common wire on the Spike for the compressor came out during the finals... therefore no compressor = no hammer action.

-Oris-

Re: 2008 West Michigan Regional
 

I am an adult mentor for 2171. We are a second year team. I thought you guys had a great machine. We had a great rookie alliance partner in 2604 and knowing what it takes to do what you and all the other rookies did, I want to congragulate you. Great job and keep up the good work. It is nice to see that teams that are in the 2000's can be competitive with the veteran teams.

Re: 2008 West Michigan Regional
 

well i think that your bot is awsome team 2337, i wish we thought of that. then maybe we would have been in the finals, also a part of is was our driver didnt practice, that was our first time compeating this year.

Re: 2008 West Michigan Regional
 

i also have a question does any one have a link for a video of all the matches? because my family couldnt go and they want to watch it.
i looked on you tube and google but could not find any can someone post the link if there is one?

Re: 2008 West Michigan Regional
 

I found matches 51-72 here:

http://soap.circuitrunners.com/2008/movies/mi/

For the match schedule go here:

http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv...hp?eventid=164


Hopefully they will post the rest of them soon.

-Oris-

Re: 2008 West Michigan Regional
 

This video was made by Dee and Randy from Team Hammond. My daughter posted it yesterday from the finals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikfog2niF6I

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I'm working on getting them split/transcoded. I uploaded the second day qualification (TBA/SOAP/FIRST Video Archive), and am working on first day qualification. If those from SOAP are good enough quality for everyone, LET ME KNOW so I don't have to learn VirtualDub for this particular project and so I can speed things up.

Re: 2008 West Michigan Regional
 

yes, the ones on SOAP are great! I check every day waiting for the rest :yikes: ...you have the finals matches also right?

Re: 2008 West Michigan Regional
 

ok tyvm for your help