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Tonya Scott 476 13-04-2008 13:22

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Do to outstanding mentoring and awesome Gracious Professionalism--we can expect younger teams to be strong and look really good.

What used to take our teams 3 or 4 years to "get"---they "get it" their 1st year now!

(We had a short "intro to FIRST" meeting in June; an all day training session in September called "Team Summit" that included a variety of 45 min. workshops (the conferences at nationals were my idea a few years ago) so we do the same thing at home. Then we had a full day kit-bot build session on kickoff day. All 24 rookies left with rolling, functioning kit bot frames. And a better understanding of the kit components. Then they spent 6 weeks perfecting it! Now that is mentoring. We are planning on having an adult only mentor/teacher retreat in June to get to know each other, share best practices, and build the relationships between teams. We have a group called OKlahoma Robotics--and hospitality and gracious professionalism is expected and practiced among the adults!)

Not to mention how awesome the kit of parts has gotten. Rookies don't know how easy they have it!

Our 1st year (2000) we were like "HUH" about everything. We went to the Lone Star regional for our very first event--we didn't even know to bring a cart--we were carrying our bot everywhere! Then we decided to go to Nationals that year---we improved on a lot of things, raised $30,000 in a month, and won the National Rookie All Star.

But I'm telling you--the old way of looking at veterans first during scouting---we can't do that anymore. The young teams are looking GOOD!

Keep up the awesome mentoring!!

Keep sharing the scouting info too!

One of you techy youngsters needs to create a data base including a photo of the robots to put on our IPODS, PALMs, cell phones, lap tops etc ! That way when we click on our data, we can pull up a pic of the robot!

Mike Schreiber 13-04-2008 13:57

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The competition here looks quite brutal, I'm curious to see how this will play out. We ceratinly have the coolest alliance name possibilities...

We leave in 2 days and 6 hours! (We're bussing it and taking a team building day on Wednesday)

Good luck to everyone, I want to see Archimedes take Einstein.

ARCHI-

ttldomination 13-04-2008 13:59

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May you be referring to the blue allliance? They have an amazing database with match achives and records. Althought they don't have videos for all the regionals nor do they have pictures for all the robot. It's a still a great way to scout.

www.thebluealliance.net

smurfgirl 13-04-2008 14:14

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Originally Posted by Uberbots (Post 734768)
We supplied teams 177, 987, and 190 with batteries last year from our stash. as you can see, nothing bad happened to these three teams. well nothing terrible anyway. Donate batteries!

Yeah, winning on Einstein is "nothing terrible"... more like incredible!

(But if our batteries have magic powers, why didn't they work for us?)

smurfgirl 13-04-2008 14:26

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Originally Posted by lilstogi11 (Post 735464)
Also, just some constructive crit: I think that 1124's driver's need some more practice in terms of being faster with those hurdles and driving around a lot quicker. The hurdling itself is fast; however, in the matches I watched, they seemed to be taking it easy while driving and I think that'll make a huge difference on their performance when (not if) they get on Einstein.

Just wondering if that opinion is after watching CT Regional matches or something else. Our drivers have been practicing a lot since then and working on speed and fluidity in their movements. When we're on the field, I'm always yelling at them to go faster. (-: Thanks for the comment, though, I think you're on to something.

smurfgirl 13-04-2008 14:35

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Originally Posted by AndyB (Post 735207)
1124 has a match average of 79.9. Not 107.

That's too bad... I wish it were 107. Or 200. Or 1124? (-:

smurfgirl 13-04-2008 14:38

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Originally Posted by ttldomination (Post 735214)
Yeah at first i saw 1124 and i was like..pfft..whateva...but then i took a closer look and then..dang..they have an easy ball grabber which will allow them to easily do whateva they want..should be interesting...

So many teams had that reaction when they first saw our robot. "Driveway reflectors for a gripper? Are you serious?" "That thing looks so flimsy!" It turned a lot of heads when it didn't fall apart. :D

Qbranch 13-04-2008 14:42

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Originally Posted by smurfgirl (Post 735995)
So many teams had that reaction when they first saw our robot. "Driveway reflectors for a gripper? Are you serious?" "That thing looks so flimsy!" It turned a lot of heads when it didn't fall apart. :D

How does your guys' gripper function exactly? I've watched the videos on your site, but it's still kind of far away.

Thanks,

-q

smurfgirl 13-04-2008 15:27

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Originally Posted by Qbranch (Post 736002)
How does your guys' gripper function exactly? I've watched the videos on your site, but it's still kind of far away.

Thanks,

-q

Here's a picture of the bot for reference:
http://uberbots.org/2008/media.php?m=658
Here's a top view of the gripper (it's folded in):
http://uberbots.org/2008/media.php?m=678
Here's a side view with the ball:
http://uberbots.org/2008/media.php?m=658

This is kind of complicated to explain without having the robot here to point to etc, so I'm sorry if it sounds convoluted:

We have an arm with four aluminum "fingers" coming out of it. Coming down perpendicular to the arm is a stationary tube with a pneumatic cylinder inside. From each finger there is a fiberglass driveway reflector coming out at an angle. This makes them want to stick out at an angle. However, we have a stationary cord that connects all of them together, pulling them towards each other. At each end of this cord, there is more cord that goes up into the stationary tube where they are connected to the cylinder. This completes the rounded shape of the reflectors. By using the cylinder, we can adjust the length of the cord to be longer or shorter- this makes the radius of the gripper larger or smaller. To pick up the ball, we open the gripper, place it over the ball, and then close it around it. The red thing is a piece of fabric which has elastic such that it is taut when it is holding a ball, but not floppy otherwise. It helps to maintain ball control, and in the event of the fiberglass snapping (which it hasn't yet in competition), it will hold it in and prevent entanglement/violation of the 80" rule.

ttldomination 13-04-2008 15:47

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AHHHHHHHH...

Three days away not counting today...boy am I pumped. I hope i can go on Friday...
Speculations are great but no one really knows for sure. It'll be fun on competition day.

smurfgirl 13-04-2008 15:55

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Originally Posted by ttldomination (Post 736023)
AHHHHHHHH...

Three days away not counting today...boy am I pumped. I hope i can go on Friday...
Speculations are great but no one really knows for sure. It'll be fun on competition day.

Speculations are perfect for occuping the three days standing between us and Archimedes!

Uberbots 13-04-2008 16:35

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Originally Posted by Qbranch (Post 736002)
How does your guys' gripper function exactly? I've watched the videos on your site, but it's still kind of far away.

Thanks,

-q

the four reflector tubes are all connected together with a peice of wire, which is tightened/loosened by a pneumatic cylinder that is stationed in the static aluminum 'thumb'.

actuating the cylinder will sort of 'winch' the string, which will tighten the fingers over the ball into an iron, easily undone, grip.

Danny McC 13-04-2008 16:35

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Everyone has been focusing on the competition. What I wanna know is does anyone wanna hang at the Finale? Every year I hang with only my team, they are cool and all but I would love to hang with new people at the Finale.

Chaos Marine 13-04-2008 16:36

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Originally Posted by Danny McC (Post 735870)
I am sure I will be thinking of one on my 14 hour drive down there. 2 days until I leave. 3 days until everyone gets there. The anticipation is killing me. ha.

We are in the same boat as you guys. i hate driving to Atl. this may sound like a lame pun but we all prefer to fly.

Uberbots 13-04-2008 16:37

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Originally Posted by Danny McC (Post 736046)
Everyone has been focusing on the competition. What I wanna know is does anyone wanna hang at the Finale? Every year I hang with only my team, they are cool and all but I would love to hang with new people at the Finale.

come hang with 1124 (=
its kinda hard to miss our UberShirts


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