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How many teams from Archimedes are going to the Braves game Fri night? If you aren't going to the game, what is your team going to do?
I have another question---what type of recording system do you use to record the video from the field? We usually bring a VCR, but it is a hassle to get the VCR set up with out a monitor--I don't know if it is on the correct channel, what speed the tape is set, etc. I'm not up to date on digital recording devices. Some advice would be appreciated. |
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Team 2424 is a rookie team from Bixby, OKlahoma. They are 1 of the 24 rookie teams we started here in Oklahoma.
Only 2 Okie Rookie teams are coming to the Championship. (the other team is 2352 Metal Meyham--they are in another division, and won the Rookie All Star award. 2352 is sponsored by the Chickasaw Nation (the same Native American Nation that Astronaut John Harrington is from) In fact, John was a part of our Regional Planning Committee, and spoke at our September Team Summitt, our Kickoff, and was a judge at our OKC regional. Team 2424 Bixby Robotics is in the Archimedes Division. As all rookies are, they are feeling a little overwhelmed--but very excited. They have a Championship countdown on their website. At the OKC and KC regionals, the veteran teams were placed on the ends of the aisles, and mixed in with the younger teams to provide guidance and help. It also helped the pit area to look more "balanced"--in other words, all the veterans weren't on one end of the pits with the cool pit displays, etc. When visitors/VIP walked thru the pit, it had an even distribution of veterans and rookies. Whoever is near our rookie buddies 2424---they are great folks, get to know them, they are from a small town--look after them for us. We will check on them often too. The really neat thing about them, is that the kids wanted to do FIRST so badly, that they do most of the work. The teacher doesn't have to "herd" them at all--like many rookie teams. Their kids are really awesome--so like I said before--get to know them if you have the chance--they are really cool. They had such an impact on their community that they were awarded the Engineering Inspiration award check out their website http://www.bixbyrobotics.org/ |
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Even if they aren't near us I will still go and get to know them. I know that my teams rookie year we did not have many people that wanted to do things on the robot. And to hear that they want to do things is a great thing. And if they are cool people that's even better I love meeting cool new people. And I will have to thank them for the countdown I couldnt find one before =(. |
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Okay yeah and so we can't forget about the one lone Brazilian team 2575(White Hurricane) on Archimedes! (I think there are 2 more brazilian teams on the Curie division though) So I say we give them a nice FIRST welcome in Atlanta. Plus, I like them already cuz they are representing my home country and state what a combo, w00t.
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TEAM 41 IN THE HIZZZOUSE!
no, but seriously guys. ive been doing some serious scouting, and competition looks mad good. gonna be a SICK competition. see y'all in GA! matt |
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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! |
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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- |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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actuating the cylinder will sort of 'winch' the string, which will tighten the fingers over the ball into an iron, easily undone, grip. |
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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.
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its kinda hard to miss our UberShirts |
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Just send me a PM, and hopefully we'll work out the details. |
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Anyone else wanna trade some shirts? NOTE: MORT UNIFORMS WILL NOT BE TRADED. I HAVE HAD MANY PEOPLE ASK ME. The uniforms are pretty expensive and each student buys their own because they last all 4 years and are personalized. Sorry =/ We have yellow t-shirts this year though. Let me know with your interest and size and what you're willing to offer me;) I will also have just a few MORT bandanas (Rad Rad Robotank ones) from 2006 to trade as well. These things are now rare so you might wanna call dibs. |
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I bought a second 171 shirt this year for purpose of trading so let me know if you are interested. It's an XL.
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Well I don't know if I will be able to trade this years shirt yet. But I do have shirts from almost every year of competition. The orange shirts from our rookie year were the coolest. Its kinda old looking though but if you want it I would be more than willing to trade. If you don't wanna talk out here than PM me.
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Does anyone know if 1771 has joined our division. I think they were on the wait list and they were able to get in...???
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Smurfgirl/Uberbots: Thanks for the Uberexplanation of your Ubermanipulators Uberfunctionality. (don't worry, I'm quite finished :] )
I'll definitely come over and check it out in person, but Smurfgirl I have to say that with the pictures that was an excellent explanation of a complex system. Thank you! :D On the Finale subject, I'd be happy to hang around with you all. I'm sure our respective team members will all figure out quickly who they'd like to hang out with... as I'm sure you all will, I'm going to encourage our (idle) team members to be sociable and wander outside the pit area. See you guys (maybe) Wednesday night! -q |
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and you are welcome for the explanation of the ubergripper (= |
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One more day of school and then its on the plane for 14 hours! BTW, we are being filmed by an independent film company, Fleur De Lis films, for a documentary on the whole experience of FIRST. Its called "the superbowl of smarts". We are one of three teams they've been following this whole year. They've followed us home to interview the families and followed us in SVR with its controversial ending and in Honolulu. There's a chance that teams we partner with, and against, will end up in the final cut which they hope to release at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. Its been an awesome privilege to have this past year documented by a professional crew. You can catch a preview of their video from last year at: http://www.fleurdelisfilms.com/html/Welcome.html
I can't wait to see the final cut! Archimedes teams will be part of the final story so be prepared! Aloha |
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Wow. That's amazing...and great PR. What's the documentary for? Government? News? TV show?
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Awesomely cool though and nice work. |
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Also if any teams are staying at the Sleep Inn Buckhead for Atlanta contact me via PM if you want to talk, play cards, or play ultimate Frisbee against the FEDS there. |
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2 days!!! the tension is building... |
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I leave tommorow and will only be able to be on CD during the night when we stop for the night. Driving there will be a perfect way for me to get my hacky sack skills back.
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(and by excited I mean charged ;) ) I know we've talked about what hotels everybody is going on, but are there any IndianaFIRST teams that are flying on the same flight as us? We have two seperate groups going down, one small group wednesday evening, one large group thursday morning... so, unfortunately I don't have the flight information for the large group... but anyhow: > IND -> ATL: AirTran 195 (departs wednesday, 6:19pm) > ATL -> IND: AirTran 400 (departs saturday, 10:59pm) -q |
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One thing I wanted to throw out there based on the comments I've been seeing.
Remember when it comes to the Championship after alliance selection what really determines the winner in many ways is reliability. Quick math for everyone to remind you: 7 qualifying matches Min 6 divisional elim matches Max 9 divisional elim matches Min 4 Einstien matches for a Champ Max 6 Einstien matches for a Champ That means you have to run 17-22 matches to win the Championship. 10-15 of which are Saturday afternoon eliminations. Just something to keep in mind when you select alliances. Edit: IMO 2 of the Uberbots, High Rollers and Rush will be allied and win the division barring a mechanical/bad luck incident. Uberbots were a hair away from Einstin last year so they can taste it and High Rollers and RUSh both Have Championship credentials. |
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I may have missed it during my quick skim through the 8 pages of posts that occurred while I was a camping over the weekend if I did I am sorry but...
Do we know who our Emcee and Announcer are yet? |
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He always does Galileo. |
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Most already know about the current PBS show that is also being filmed by Story House Productions this year. The "Superbowl OF Smarts" film should be a very complimentary piece that is going after a different audience. The PBS piece will be shown exclusively on PBS broadcast television, and the "Superbowl Of Smarts" film is targeted at theatrical release, to be shown at independent movie theatres and film festivals. Together they will reach a broader audience than either effort would alone, and help tell the "FIRST story" to a much larger portion of the public. Team 116 and NASA are funding a bit chunk of the production as part of our outreach efforts. Based on some of the B-roll footage and very early cuts that I have seen so far, the film will do a lot to show off the talents and skills of all the participating teams. But more important, it should be a great tool to have when we are all trying to answer the question "so what is FIRST all about, anyway?" -dave . |
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Theres been talk of dream alliances... IMHO 1024,2024, & 2424 would be nutz!
Think I'm going to play a 2/4 daily double today :rolleyes: (thats a horse racing bet for those that don't play the ponies ) :cool: -p |
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:( You guys definitely deserved to get to einstein more than us though... just look what happened (=. And 1592's arm rested on our camera last year, which broke our autonomous. |
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COOL>>>>>I'm excited...only 2 more days to go not counting today. man...i wish we could stay in a hotel and do fun team stuff...but nah..we're at home...we'll be driving up every morning.
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The Queen of Cool Chiniqua Gallop is the MC for Archie, and the incomparable Don Knight will be your Game Announcer. |
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Seriously, last year in atlanta i cracked a component that holds the screen on, and so one day the screen just FELL OFF. )= 1 more day of school for the UberBots!! |
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W00t. Today was my last day of school. Now I just have to sit here til around four when my dad gets here to get the stuff we are taking down. I am really pretty excited for Atlanta. Our division this year seems like it has some of the coolest people in FIRST. I had two extra team shirts but two people claimed them already.
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That's a lot of 24's. Maybe we can make an awesome 4-team alliance and add 1124 in the mix, just to get another 24 in there. |
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no problemo Dave! It was great seeing you all over the Hawaii Regional...thanks for all your support! We'll be bringing our 1 cubic inch and cubic centimeter robot to Atlanta if anyone wants to stop by our pit and see them. We competed in Japan in November at the International Microbot contest. Imagine how it feels to pull your robots out of a mayo jar.....awesome!
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Hey! Team 223 in the curie division and are looking to align with a team from each division for scouting. With a small group like ours, it is difficult to scout in all four divisions.
With a team in each division, we can all share our scouting information when it comes time for pairings. If your team is interested or has further questions, feel free to e-mail me at kazzykaty@aol.com. |
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Umm just out of curiousity why would you need other divisions scouting info unless you get on Einstein? You're welcome to use 816's if you can find me though. |
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Two more days everyone... and remember: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...248#post736248 -q :D |
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WOOT...Team 1261 has to go to school all the way up until Thursday...and part of our team has to stay in school until Friday...
It all goes well..i should be welcoming people to our pits on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. For ur scouting sheets, I just returned from a practice session and Team 1261 can easily do 2 laps in hybrid and if we can get our controller working then we should be able to get both balls off. |
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That is awesome news Peachtree Ridge.
By the way...team 1771 is officially in the Archimedes division. Anyone that wants to see what our robot is all about can check out the video in my signature. Needless to say we are much faster than that now. We were averaging 5 hurdles in eliminations and had one match with 7. |
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That's awesome 1771 I hope get to compete with you in some of the qualifications (hopefully on the same side);) .
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Thanks lilstogi. That means a lot coming from a team as good as yours. Hopefully we can impress a lot of people.
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Team 1261 calls dibs....:D we liked them FIRST...pun intended...
But seriously...when i heard that 1771 was using a suction cup..i was like pfft..but then i saw it at scrimmage and i was like...man..that thing's gonna pwn. |
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Wow guys thank you so much. It would be so cool to team up with 1124 and 1261. This division is gonna be so awesome.
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It's probably how they have a custom designed sucking system In a side note, if anyone has any little creatures from their team we may put them on our robot, if you look at our robot in our pit you will see little things like a chicken from 217 and a shark (forget where it came from) on our robot. You will need to contact me in order to do this though. |
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O don't worry it definitely works and works well. We also have increased the strength of our shooter and we have a new method to remove the ball.
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Is there any video of you guys in competition? Our scouts have been through a lot of video, but have nothing to look at for you guys. :confused: |
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It definitely has a lot to do with our custom suction device. The funnel is 21" diameter and we use a modified shop vac impeller assembly run off of 2 fisher price motors. We hold the ball with over 400lb of force so there is no way we're ever losing a ball from our grasp.
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I love how all teams talk about teams in their areas (most of the time), like I'm hoping to be on an alliance with 27 and 1024 because I know their skills. It will be interesting at the competition when people see teams who they never knew about before that are kicking their butts (I am included in that group)
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What is the webhug? I have heard about it but don't know what it is, and seeing I'm the only one from my team who posts here I don't think they would know. EDIT: Nevermind I found out, and I'm totally going! |
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Yeah I would love to play with so many teams in this division it's just not fair. Theres not enough matches. haha. I would love to meet all of you guys from here. We should come up with a way to know who we are.
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Hey, seeing that there are so many bots that are amazing at this regional...I'm sure we'll get a chance to play with most people...but that also means that we will get a chance to play *against* good teams too....it'll be tough and fun and same time...crying and laughing...hot and cold...i'm gonna stop now.
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lol, forgot that MORT shirts have names on them already. Mine will have Akash Rastogi on it and obviously we're the bright yellow and black. |
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But nametags are a must |
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Not sure how this is going to work but just curious how many people
are using the robo coach. Are you using standard remotes or heavily modified ( lots of ir leds ). Since there are so many robots doing killer autonomous it cold be an IR TRAFFIC JAM if everyone does it at once. Anyone already have this happen? How did you resolve it? |
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