Who wants pics from Midwest?
 

Hey all Midwest Regional teams,

Team 1038 shot a few hundred pics of the outrageous action from the Regional and would like to know who would like the full res shots of their robot. Simply drop me a PM with an email address and I will send any shots I have on thier way! I will post a mini-flood to the site here, but they will be 'lil ones to keep the bandwidth down.

Re: Who wants pics from Midwest?
 

Mighty nice of you!

If it isn't too much trouble, I'd love what you can scrape together. Consider the PM sent.

Thank you,

-q (and i'm sure 1024 as well)

p.s. We're making travel arrangements for Atlanta. Who knows? Maybe our pits will be neighbors again.

Re: Who wants pics from Midwest?
 

I guess we need to think about stocking up on supplies then, considering what happened to your guys "supply chain" last year? :D All kidding aside, you guys rocked in your winning alliance, I look forward to seeing you again in Atlanta! I'll send you what I have after I sort them out and pretty them up a tad...

Re: Who wants pics from Midwest?
 

A picture of 1024 on fire would be great to have to. Some people don't believe me that it happened.

Re: Who wants pics from Midwest?
 

I also hope it doesn't happen again... maybe better if nobody has a picture. :o

-q

Re: Who wants pics from Midwest?
 

what the story behind that anyways?

Re: Who wants pics from Midwest?
 

The short occured at one of our front ultrasonic sensors. The sensor was connected with relatively thin PWM wire, so the thin gauge had a lot of quick smoke/flame but went out just as quickly. The thing that made it look so bad was our electronics/guts cover...

Since most of that pwm wire was bundled under the cover, it made a ton of smoke inside which slowly was blown out a hole in the forward stiffener box by the victor fans and just convection in general... making the smoke seem to continue to pour out while it had already stopped.

So... I guess the ultrasonics ended up being un-safety sensors... :o

-q

Re: Who wants pics from Midwest?
 

I took a few shots when the cloud of smoke went up, unfortunately the smoke doesn't show on the pics... That was a heck of a quick fix, btw!

Re: Who wants pics from Midwest?
 

I'm not sure if it was caught in the video recording / streaming. I'll check once they put the archives up.

What type of Ultrasonic sensors (Brand / model) were you using Qbranch?

Re: Who wants pics from Midwest?
 

If you remember which match it happened, they are all on TBA now.

http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/team.php?team=1024

Re: Who wants pics from Midwest?
 

It's not the sensor's fault... Judging by all the surrounding circumstances (vibration, lay of the wires, etc) our best guess is a piece of aluminum found its way down in the electrical tape holding the connector securely and shorted the power to ground.

As I've advertised in the past, I'm a PING))) fan.

-q