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Re: Dealing with robotics regrets
2014 NE Champs quarterfinals. We were the first pick of the #8 seed, with 172 the Northern Force and 2067 Apple Pi. Our first matchup: the robot decreed to be the best in New England in 195, the CyberKnights, assisted by 558 the RoboSquad and 5122 the RoboTies.
QF1 we had the only Anderson connector failure in our team's history. 172 and 2067 put up a valiant fight but lost. QF2 we took and forced the rubber match. In QF3, both us and 2067 took hard hits to our internals that knocked our compressor and Apple Pi's drive Talons, respectively. Our crippled alliance just couldn't finish it.
A win there would have, in all likelihood, sent our team to St. Louis, something I really felt the students had earned.
We learned that even though the robot was built like a truck full of trains, it wasn't impervious to little tiny failures that could create big problems.
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This is our Robot. There are many like it, but this one is ours.
Measure twice, cut once, curse, buy more, and cut again.
2014- Excellence in Engineering (UNH), District Chairman's Award (NU), #8 Quarterfinalist (NECMP), Winner (Mainely Spirit)
2013- Semifinalists (Battlecry@WPI) Winner (Mainely Spirit)
2012- Regional Chairman's (GSR), Finalists as the #11 Alliance Captain (Battlecry@WPI)
2011-Xerox Creativity Award (GSR), Semifinalists (GSR) Innovation in Control (Virginia)
2010-Champion (GSR), Undefeated (Chesapeake), Coopertition Award (Chesapeake), Quarterfinalists (Galileo) 8th AC (IRI)
2008-Undefeated (GSR), Xerox Creativity Award (GSR)
Last edited by Brandon Zalinsky : 28-08-2015 at 00:48.
Reason: 195 and 501 are the same team right?
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