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Alex Dinsmoor 17-04-2008 20:46

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After day 1 of Atlanta I myself have made some observations of some specific teams. These are not for the FEDS as a team, just Alex Dinsmoor.

987 - I counted 32 pts. in Hybrid and 5 hurdles and one place, that's some major pointage.

1024 - You are getting better (you were already great), your throwing is really cool

1124 - I see how you are 14-0, your an amazing robot that picks up the ball easily

27 - You guys were simply amazing, one of the best in our division, your picking up mechanism is really cool and reliable, and you throw elegantly

365 - You pick it up great and throw it great, what else can I say.

And the greatest robot of them all is the microbots of team 2024, they are so small and 1st place winners! I will post photos later (when I get my camera), they are the greatest robot I have ever seen.

Qbranch 17-04-2008 23:04

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Really awesome FIRST day for the World Championships everyone!

By now, it seems most people have shaken off most of their robot's jet lag. Also, I like all the cool new additions to robots I've seen. Thanks everybody for making Archemedes awesome to take a walk around in (my sore ankles can attest to that :] ).

At 1024, we were excited to see our robot use it's brand new hybrid ball knock-off code for the very first time, especially since many of the distances and other settings were educated guesses! :ahh:

Our robot is ready to play again, and we look forward to seeing you all tomorrow! GO TEAMS!

AR-CHE-ME-DES! :D

-q

Alex Dinsmoor 17-04-2008 23:12

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Hey q, what is that display on the back of your robot do? It's always flashing random numbers...

Qbranch 17-04-2008 23:20

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex Dinsmoor (Post 738619)
Hey q, what is that display on the back of your robot do? It's always flashing random numbers...

They aren't random... though I must admit at present one of the segments finally quit on it, if I have time I'll look into why.

Anyhow, during autonomous mode it reads out the bearing of the robot relative to it's start in tenths of a degree. In the teleoperated mode it reads out the speed of the robot in ft/sec. Remember there is a decimel point in the middle, so if the display says "12.75" it means 12.75ft/sec.

-q

Alex Dinsmoor 17-04-2008 23:25

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Qbranch (Post 738623)
They aren't random... though I must admit at present one of the segments finally quit on it, if I have time I'll look into why.

Anyhow, during autonomous mode it reads out the bearing of the robot relative to it's start in tenths of a degree. In the teleoperated mode it reads out the speed of the robot in ft/sec. Remember there is a decimel point in the middle, so if the display says "12.75" it means 12.75ft/sec.

-q

Cool, I wish we had one of those! So wait, does it measure of how far you've gone...

Qbranch 17-04-2008 23:35

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex Dinsmoor (Post 738625)
Cool, I wish we had one of those! So wait, does it measure of how far you've gone...

I don't want to cluter up this thread too much, so if you have any further questions just come by tomorrow.

Anyways, the display itself is just a display. I have four shift registers in series to run the 32 leds that make up the display... it doesn't actually measure anything itself... the only knowledge it has is that it takes a serial line of data and uses that to figure the state of the 32 output lines.

We can show data for any of the sensors on the robot using buttons on the OI panel, though we almost never do that on the field, it's more of a pit debug thing. Yes, it can show the counts on either encoder among other things.

Thanks for your curiosity! :)

See you tomorrow,

-q

sdcantrell56 18-04-2008 00:23

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Can anyone post a match list or perhaps tell me our first match. That would be greatly appreciated.

Protronie 18-04-2008 08:24

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http://www2.usfirst.org/2008comp/eve...edulequal.html

Theres the list for AR CHI ME DES! :cool:

Richard Wallace 18-04-2008 12:46

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Well, I guess we all expected the level of play to kick up a notch or two at the Championship.

I just noticed Q-20 on Archimedes, in which 71/228/190 put up 100 points, ... AND LOST to 525/2472/401! :eek:

[edit] ... and over on Newton, Q-16 had 968/20/692 beating 329/39/175, 120-114. Lots of great hurdlers down in ATL.[/edit]

xcentrix 18-04-2008 15:32

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Protronie (Post 736545)
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

OMG, match 67 is just this Alliance!!! How cool is that! And I'm stuck at work in a no webcast fly zone! :ahh: This is torture!

Someone please, please, please :o record this match and post it on Youtube or whereever plz!!!! so I can watch when I go to lunch (we're 6 hours behind Atl).

Protronie 18-04-2008 17:56

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Quote:

Originally Posted by xcentrix (Post 738790)
OMG, match 67 is just this Alliance!!! How cool is that! And I'm stuck at work in a no webcast fly zone! :ahh: This is torture!

Someone please, please, please :o record this match and post it on Youtube or whereever plz!!!! so I can watch when I go to lunch (we're 6 hours behind Atl).

Missed it myself! ARRGGGG!
I hope someone got that!
Anyhow... 2024,1024,& 2424 topped 1646,752, & 1218 with a score of
56 to 136 :eek:

Glad to see 1024 making a comeback! First two games had me freaking!

In all the matches and action have been off the hook!

ARCHI-

xcentrix 18-04-2008 19:24

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Protronie (Post 738802)
Missed it myself! ARRGGGG!
I hope someone got that!
Anyhow... 2024,1024,& 2424 topped 1646,752, & 1218 with a score of
56 to 136 :eek:

Glad to see 1024 making a comeback! First two games had me freaking!

In all the matches and action have been off the hook!

So I'm on the phone with my mother, who is at home in ** New Jersey **, explaining what an awesome alliance this is and I tell her, "if you really loved me, you'd record the match on your phone and send it to me."

So picture this: My mother (AJ's GRANDMOTHER), holding up her cell phone to her computer monitor recording the match to send to me. Now she's watched both SVR and HAWAII Reginal so she knows the game and she's cheering on 2024, and really gets into it and drops the phone and LOOSES the flix! :eek:

** so at the end of the match she calls me and says, "Boy, you were right, that really was a fantastic match. Too bad you missed it." **:o


MEDES!

sdcantrell56 18-04-2008 19:56

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Competition has really increased for sure. There are definitely some great robots here.

We were just talking about alliance picking during the car ride back to the house and came up with this epiphany. If the picking team already has a great hybrid ( 4+ lines and both balls every time) what good does it do to pick another robot with the same great autonomous capability. All that can come out of both teams having that autonomous is confusion and possibly collisions.

So say the picking team is a decent or good shooter and has the "great" hybrid would it not be the most beneficial to pick an excellent pure shooter that has a lesser hybrid (2-4 lines and no balls)? With this pairing you would get the awesome hybrid points (50+) per match without the risk of collisions and such. Also by picking the great shooter then the amount of hurdles per match will increase greatly, much more so than if the picked team could complete one more line. Finally, if the great hybrid robot knocks off both balls and the great shooter has a lesser autonomous, they will end up with the knocked off balls on the ground in front of them ready to pick up and shoot right away.

Sorry everyone for the rant but we just had this epiphany on the car ride back and I had to get it out.

Good Luck everyone tomorrow!!

Tottanka 18-04-2008 21:13

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Quote:

Originally Posted by sdcantrell56 (Post 738824)
Competition has really increased for sure. There are definitely some great robots here.

We were just talking about alliance picking during the car ride back to the house and came up with this epiphany. If the picking team already has a great hybrid ( 4+ lines and both balls every time) what good does it do to pick another robot with the same great autonomous capability. All that can come out of both teams having that autonomous is confusion and possibly collisions.

So say the picking team is a decent or good shooter and has the "great" hybrid would it not be the most beneficial to pick an excellent pure shooter that has a lesser hybrid (2-4 lines and no balls)? With this pairing you would get the awesome hybrid points (50+) per match without the risk of collisions and such. Also by picking the great shooter then the amount of hurdles per match will increase greatly, much more so than if the picked team could complete one more line. Finally, if the great hybrid robot knocks off both balls and the great shooter has a lesser autonomous, they will end up with the knocked off balls on the ground in front of them ready to pick up and shoot right away.

Sorry everyone for the rant but we just had this epiphany on the car ride back and I had to get it out.

Good Luck everyone tomorrow!!

i totally agree =]

Vikesrock 19-04-2008 12:09

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Alliances
11-71-2166
525-27-93
1124-1024-177
987-365-842
2081-1218-2335
816-555-386
292-41-201
122-1598-1771


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