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Qbranch 24-04-2008 16:49

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FIRST off, sorry about the double post. :o

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Originally Posted by Protronie (Post 740656)
Ummmm
Just one question.... what was all that again... in english?
So thats what you got the award for... and I thought it was for just the fancy speedo on the back.
After re-reading your description again... I think instead of a award they should have just given you a job!

Protronie, if you want the really basic explanation, it made the robot drive really good without me bothering it. :D

On the whole job thing... well I did get an offer from Allison Transmission yesterday to give a 30 minute presentation of my control system as well as for a job... :yikes:

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Originally Posted by Alex Dinsmoor (Post 740668)
Speaking about jobs where are you going to college and what are you majoring in Alex?

I'm going to the University of Illionis at Urbana-Champaign (anybody else?) and majoring in Electrical Engineering.

...Amazing how far you can get with some software that makes a robot do some tricks for 15 seconds... ;)

Thanks everybody for a great season, and thanks to 1024 for building a great machine... without the rest of the robot all my software would have done is spin some motors real nice. :o

-q

smurfgirl 24-04-2008 16:51

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Originally Posted by thefro526 (Post 741095)
Also sorry to anyone who I said I would meet up with, I was plagued with a Fever and Throat issues throughout the weekend and really didn't have much energy to do anything except go out to matches. Anyone try to be an alliance captain when you're half awake, it's not one of my fonder memories of FIRST. LOL


Wow... I know how you feel on that one. I was blessed with a sore throat Tuesday morning, so I stayed home from school to keep everyone else on the team healthy and recover a bit before we left Wednesday. I had a swollen throat for basically all of the competition, and it left me with a very scratchy voice that was very audible. Try being a coach and an alliance captain with no voice... My team members were great though, I had a lot of fun overall, and I did regain most of my voice by alliance selections. Somehow multiple key people on my team manage to get sick during every competition we go to, and recover just around when it ends. :rolleyes:

Akash Rastogi 24-04-2008 18:54

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Hope to see and work with a lot more of you next year. Please come to MORT's home at the NJ regional. It is one of the best regionals in FIRST and more people should come and enjoy it. You will meet amazing teams like 103, 25, 75, and so many more and I just want to see everyone again next year.:)

davidmedeiros 24-04-2008 20:49

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Ahh I've finally had the time to get back to this thread...

WOW That was an amazing time at Championships.
I was a runner so I was dead tired half of the time, but all of the people I got to meet were great!
Thanks to the High Rollers, 987, for the opportunity you guys gave us in the alliance selection, and thanks to MOE, 365, for being our other alliance partners! I'd say we did very well though we lost, it was an awesome time!
Congrats to 1124, 1024 and 177. It was a well deserved win!

Hopefully I'll have the privilege of seeing you all next year at Nationals!

Alex Dinsmoor 24-04-2008 21:14

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Originally Posted by Qbranch (Post 742258)
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I'm going to the University of Illionis at Urbana-Champaign (anybody else?) and majoring in Electrical Engineering.

...Amazing how far you can get with some software that makes a robot do some tricks for 15 seconds... ;)
-q

That's cool, and for a code like yours it's easy to see how far it could take you. Have fun at college next year!

Uberbots 24-04-2008 23:11

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Thats a pretty fancy system you have in there q. id like to see the formula you used in the curve interpolation- it sounds pretty neat (=

we used essentially the same thing for our autonomous control, with the PID speed controllers and the heading system. I guess the only difference is that we didnt use an interpolator for the arcs (really only a dead-reckoning thing on the turns), and our driving was ultrasonic based rather than encoder based.

zivo123 25-04-2008 18:14

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hey everyone!
i wanted to tell you all that our team had a great time playin with you on archimedes :)
weve learned a lot playing with you and hopefully we will come improved next year instead of tipping over four times..

anyway, i need your help- i need to contact anyone from team 1474, however, their team has no updated website and none of them have accounts on cheifdelphi...
so i was wondering if maybe someone here has a way of contacting any student of the team?
Thanks a lot, Ziv.

Alex Dinsmoor 26-04-2008 15:09

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Contact Nancy O., she was making a list of student emails from every team, she may have one from team 1474. Hope you can find one!

zivo123 26-04-2008 17:18

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Thanks!

Mike Schreiber 26-04-2008 18:02

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Originally Posted by ktbcantrell (Post 740979)
Yeah... i wish i could still be eligable driving the robot in the competitions next year but the rules say pre-college student... But, dont worry 1771 will show up to competition with some fresh new divers come '09.

Can't you just skip college, go the year after next, then you're still a pre-college student and can still drive...just a thought, besides which do you think you'll learn more from FIRST or college? haha

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Originally Posted by Gmitevski (Post 740789)
Next I want to thank our opponents 27, 525, and 93. You guys had a great team and it was very fun playing against you guys even though we couldn't pull off the upset.

27-I can honestly say that you were my favorite robot and I liked you design very much. Its unfortunate that you guys had to go out like that with problems with your robot.

Thanks! You guys scared the crap out of me in the quarter finals, I thought you had us in that tied match by penalties...guess we lucked out :D. You were high on our list and definitely had a solid robot...you're just never left for us to pair up with. I remember the same thing happening in '06 when you guys made it to Einstein by 1 point in the third match against us in Galileo:(.

Thank you to 525 for picking us, and to 93 for being awesome as well. We made a good run.

Congrats to our division champs, and of course to the SimChicken Wranglers, who we all knew were going to take it after week 1...

On a personal note, Q it was pretty sweet talking to you, your pretty amazing at what you do, and even better at explaining it, congrats to you and your team on the award.

Alex Dinsmoor 26-04-2008 21:33

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Originally Posted by ICanCountTo19 (Post 743135)
Thanks! You guys scared the crap out of me in the quarter finals, I thought you had us in that tied match by penalties...guess we lucked out :D. You were high on our list and definitely had a solid robot...you're just never left for us to pair up with. I remember the same thing happening in '06 when you guys made it to Einstein by 1 point in the third match against us in Galileo:(.

Haha, that was a very tense 4 matches I predicted you guys beating us but I hoped it wouldn't go that way. I keep watching the videos and looking at "Oh, if I did this different we could've won" and stuff like that.

As you guys know most of our team liked your robot more than our own (I mean how can you not like your robot, it was amazing), and we were happy to see you guys do good at GLR and Archimedes.

Sean Schuff 26-04-2008 21:52

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Originally Posted by Bruce Newendorp (Post 740865)
We were very happy to be able to ask Team 93 N.E.W. Apple Corps to join us on Saturday afternoon. We worked well together in Minnesota so we knew we would here also.

Thanks Bruce!! Once we saw 525 paired up with 27 we were all hoping you would consider us to round out your alliance. Once you picked us we thought we had the "team to beat" going into elims. I guess it just wasn't to be.

You've got a great team in the SwartDogs and it was fantastic getting to know and work (play!) with your team. We all look forward to our paths crossing again in the future.

Thanks again for a great season!!

Sean

Carol 28-04-2008 13:07

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Originally Posted by ICanCountTo19 (Post 743135)
Can't you just skip college, go the year after next, then you're still a pre-college student and can still drive...just a thought, besides which do you think you'll learn more from FIRST or college? haha
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I'm not sure where it is specified, but I'm fairly certain that the definition of a pre-college student is one who has not graduated high school.

Alex Dinsmoor 28-04-2008 14:56

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Originally Posted by Carol (Post 743624)
I'm not sure where it is specified, but I'm fairly certain that the definition of a pre-college student is one who has not graduated high school.

You could just not graduate year after year, but it may not be worth it...

smurfgirl 28-04-2008 16:04

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How long are you guys going to keep this thread alive? This just enforces the fact that Archimedes officially had the most spirited and energetics group of people of all the divisions. (-:


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