Detroit District 2010
 

Who is excited? :D

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Hoping that we dont have the communications issue that plagued us the entire time at Traverse City. From there we just have to work out all of the bugs or see what we can do this week in our 6 hours of practice! What I am looking forward to the most is see how far we can actually kick it in a match. My guess is we might be able to kick from wall to wall in the air if we really try.

Good Luck to all other teams!

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Hopefully you guys can drive down there on thursday to try and get your wireless working with the DET field :)

And if you can kick that far, I would say you would make a pretty good alliance partner!

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548 is Excited! And I'm looking forward to seeing the Feds (who I have been able to penalize already this year :yikes: ) and the Armadillos (who not only have I not seen this year but the fire ants who eat baby armadillos have run them out of Texas so I don't even get to see real ones anymore :-( ).

Look for the hat in the queing line (since I am not reffing this one) and I will try to get you a prime position to rest through the field faults! :yikes:

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This event list looks similar to the one I saw at Kettering. Hopefully its just as exciting. I just want to make one request. Teams stop shooting soccer balls at my face!! :p

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I'm pumped! Hopefully our robot will be operational too, unlike at Traverse City. The drivetrain bugs should all be fixed now, and we were swerving happily around the shop last night. I'm really looking forward to seeing if we'll actually have an opportunity to hang during a match :P

As always, I'll be around somewhere if you look hard enough, so please come find me if you get the chance! Shortish dark brown french braids, bright yellow bandanna covering them, bright yellow eyeshadow, and an aluminum tetris T-block dangling from my neck (you get a physical description, you see, because I tend to be everywhere at once during competitions...try the pit first).

Good luck everyone!

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Well we somehow worked for about half of our second to last match and kicked the ball two zones without a full windup twice. Now we just have to find out why we lose comm so we run full matches. Our plan is to get down there and inspected ASAP so we can get onto the field to see if we are going to have issues or not.

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That's exactly what I thought! Although if you look closely only 11 awesome teams (:P) are attending both. I don't mind though, I like seeing new teams :D

Although it doesn't really matter, what I really find interesting is that out of the 10 lowest numbered teams that attended Kettering, 7 of them are going to Detroit.

Another thing is the lack of teams in the 2000's that are attending Detroit as compared to Kettering.

Just a few things that I noticed while looking at both team lists side to side.

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I'm not a programmer/electrical kind of person, but you might want to double-check (because I'm sure you've checked it a lot already) to make sure your radio is functioning properly, especially if you're using the same one from last year. Our radio from last year was having problems with losing comm any time it was jostled, which we figured out in week 4, so we ordered a replacement and haven't had any comm problems since.

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What Karibou said. Also, be sure your radio isn't mounted to something too rigid. There are some parts in the radio that don't stand up well to shock loads. We try to mount it to something that flexes so even when our robot gets a jolt, the jolt isn't directly translated into the radio. This year we have our radio mounted to one of our 1/8" sheets of lexan. There were a couple of teams last year that were breaking radios frequently. We convinced one of them to change the radio mounting and that solved the problem.

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Without getting into to much details we tried a lot of things up at Traverse City (including loaned radios and more), there are some other threads that discussed if full. The programming guys think it might be the USB power issue so getting something together for that. We will be down there Thursday from 4-10 so plenty of time to test.

Thanks for the input guys. Feel free to stop on by and check us out, hopefully fully working. Cant wait, should be a great competitive event!

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In case you did not get the update, they changed the start time on Thursday from 4pm to 6pm.

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Today was a great day.

I want to give a special thanks from team 2620 to team 51 (The new Chief Delphi team)


On match 46 they broke our loosing streak of like 4. It was ridiculous. We were in 2nd place for a while then dropped, and dropped and dropped to like 14th place, our last match brought us to 8th. Then the final matches after that brought us to 10th. Havnt checked since we left today. I think tomorrow will decide it. We need to get our timing right for the autonomous in the zone with 3 balls then our bot will be pretty amazing. I made 6 points today and i didnt touch the field >.< Autonomous is awesome ;D

Anyways, so those teams that are there, youll see us on the practice field in the morning probably working out our timing.

EDIT:: Also, team 51 members, where did you guys get another cRio from? o.0 you went threw 2 today didnt you? Frying 2 i mean. Or just 1? And thats odd, i havnt heaerd of people drying there cRio unless it was wired incorrectly. The power that is.

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We only "broke" one cRIO today. We got a loner, but we couldn't get that one to image. Therefore, we needed to get a 2nd one. It just took us about an hour to do the fix since the first loner didn't work.

(BTW: we got the loners from spare parts or pit admin. I'm not sure which. Our young guns did a good job of tracking down the spares - and fixing the robot. I'm really proud of our students today. They worked amazingly, especially considering the pressure. I hate that we missed a match, but I KNOW that the students that were involved in the fix learned a lot of great lessons that this competition can teach.)

Good luck to you guys tomorrow. We'll see you around.

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We also got a spare CRio from the spare parts guys. Usually you just have to sign your life away if you want to get one to make sure you return it, but they only have so many.

Also pumped that we have been working. Had a 40 foot bomb of a kick at one point. Kept it toned down for the most part because there is no need to kick it that far. Who know maybe at some point ...

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Well, you dont learn anything from a good situation. Its the bad ones where you learn the most.

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To quote another mentor "Holy Red Card, Batman!" I counted 7 red cards today. 5 of which were in the eliminations.


But more importantly the teams were playing some real competitive Breakaway!

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There is no GM Industrial Design Award winner at http://www2.usfirst.org/2010comp/events/DT/awards.html, does anyone know who won?

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I'd venture to guess 67 won that award The Autodesk awards aren't given out at districts, I think the two got flipped.

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67 did win the design award..

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Which teams won? 1st, 2nd, 3rd?

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District Champions:

67, 51, 1023

District Finalists:

27, 201, 1

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#1- 67/51/1023 Winners
#2- 27/201/1 Finals
#3- 70/245/2834 Semis
#4- 247/815/2175 Quarters
#5- 123/1528/818 Semis
#6- 3096/494/2851 Quarters
#7- 2620/903/440 Quarters
#8- 3115/1025/548 Quarters

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Better known as team Hot Wings Express! For 1023 it was the first time we have ever won a competition, getting that banner was amazing. When we were selected it took it a good 15 minutes before it actually sunk in that we were in an alliance with HOT and Wings of Fire, and when we won we just stood there staring at the scoreboard for a couple of minutes. Our team was going crazy, it was a really good day. Thank you HOT and Wings of Fire for picking us as the third member of your alliance.

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This event was EXTREMELY competitive. I was incredibly impressed with the competition, and there were some extremely close matches. I feel like there were more than 7 red cards, though..."Holy Red Card, Batman!" indeed!

Congratulations 67, 51, and 1023, and also to finalists 27, 201, and 1! Also, congratulations to Chairman's recipient 27! Oh, and Rookie All-Star/Highest Rookie Seed winner 3175 (I'm proud of you, Knight Vision!)!

I had an ongoing "teams that are awesome" list going in my pit so that I would remember to thank all of them for the help (in advice, physical objects, spirit, and any other kind of help) that we received over the course of the event, but I didn't add anyone for today (I forgot :/) So from Thursday and Friday, I've got 201, 247, 3096, 3175, 1025, 313, 67 and 2851. Thank you all so much [:

Is there a list of the Woodie Flowers and Dean's List nominees floating around anywhere?

"Hey Detroittttttt..."

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Hey What? :P

And your welcome :) The FEDS are always here for you!

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This event was a blast. Our team had a lot of fun and were glad 123 and 1528 picked us for a partner. We put up a good fight in the elimination rounds, but facing 67, 51, and 1023 in the semis was hard. It was a lot of fun to watch that finals. Hoping that finish was enough to get us to States. Also thanks team 548 for the Most Kickin' Robot award.

Just glad we figured out all of our issues and even got an autonomous going. It was fun to blast the balls across the entire field a couple of times.

After this event cant wait to see States!

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Would you mind sharing what that problems were, so we can all learn from them? I know you were saying you had a lot of communication problems in the previous district, so I would love to hear what was the problem and the solution.

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I was watching some of the webcast and thought there was a bot that had an active mechanism. I'm sorry i don't know the number but the top was yellow i think and it looked like a diving board that just keep bouncing up and down. I was hoping someone could clarify how that was legal. Could it be that the bounce was only 3 inches? Just saw a picture of bot -2834-in detroit news.

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It was just a board on a spring that was used to deflect balls coming down from the tower. It seemed to be on the spring because it would allow them to go under the tower if need be.

And I'm pretty sure it was only 3 inches after looking at it closely at the competitions.

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I wasn't directly involved with both problems, but this is what I understand/think.

1) We would lose comm from the autonomous to tele switch. We finally just tried a clean code that we knew worked and it seemed to clear it up. I believe there was just some underlying thing in out LabView code that was off and causing errors.

2) Randomly lose comm during a match. We did not hook the receiver to a regulated 12 volt source. Once and a while we might drop below 12 volts, then we would instantly lose comm and not be able to get it back.

I believe it was mostly problem 1 we had at Traverse City. Then the few times we would drive I think problem 2 would sometimes take effect and stop us during the match. Sorry, was on a time constraint and couldnt type it in the last post.

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Bit of a thread resurrection... but this was my first district ever and apparently it made quite an impression:

I was driving in Myrtle Beach this weekend and saw a sign that brought back some good memories. I just had to snap a pic!

(I did not, however, stop in for a bite to eat, sorry Adam.)



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