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Originally Posted by DavidGitz
I would like to be involved with this outstanding effort. I have been in FIRST a long time now (9+ years) and I would like myself and my company, FAST Robotics which makes Quadrotor UAV's to be involved. Who should I approach for this?
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Thanks for your interest, I passed your message along to the other members of the game design committee and I hope they'll get back to you shortly. Renee Becker, who posted earlier in this thread, would be a good person to contact. She has done much of the fund raising and coordination of our demo. Otherwise, I would be happy to talk with you. My email is fairbanksd at msoe.edu
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Hi all, this is Keith, the team leader from Pace's robotics team. If you don't remember, we're the ones that didn't really get anything accomplished and I had some questions I was hoping the other teams could answer.
-How did you guys finance your projects? How did you find benefactors? Our quad budget was around $500-$600 which meant no backup parts and cheap construction to begin with... This is what killed us since, after we crashed it, we had to poke around trying to figure out what was wrong with it (props to Platteville for all the help).
-What majors were your team members? I imagine most of you all were engineering majors? Any CS?
Those were the main two questions I had. Also, have you guys already started working on newer/better revisions? Do we have any idea what future competitions will be?
Thanks in advance
EDIT: Also, how many members did you guys have?
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1) Finding sponsors was incredibly difficult for us. We got promptly started by a donation by my father, but we were left without much money to start building robots. Our faculty adviser made a donation, which allowed us to finally get started. Eventually, I had a break with IEEE Milwaukee Chapter, where I wowed them with my professionalism and preparedness. IEEE is a good match for us because they do not sponsor FRC teams because there are too many in the Milwaukee area. IEEE was also looking for a way to support FIRST! We also had to collect a large sum from every team mate who wanted to come with us to the competition, and luckily most of the team members were able to pay it. MSOE helped us with transportation and some of the hotel cost. Our total budget resulted at around $5,000 but we could have done it with much less. We did not have any spare quad parts, not even props, and the GV was made with primarily borrowed parts.
2) Our team is mostly CE/SE with a couple EE, ME, and business students. 12 of our members came to St. Louis, and we had about 15 active members total.
3) New revisions of the quad are in the plan. The GV will hopefully be prettied up and put on display on campus.
The GDC hasn't had an official meeting or conference call since the event (that I know of??), however I may or may not have started writing up a proposal for next year's game/s
