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Re: 2007 Israel GM/Technion Regional
I've spoke to the FIRST Israel managers and they said they weren't able to get it ready.
Anyway, I'd like to tell how it went for our team this day:
We came early in the morning with all our equipment, we were between the first to get inside, probably the first to be set to work with our robot.
We wnet straight after our personal inspection(unoffical to FIRST), we went to the practice area to see that all the systems work.
Well, they all did, until we reached our robot lifting. For some reason, one of the Jack motors didn't work at all while raising the robot. We've tried to get some time to fix it, but untill then, we were called to play our first practice match which we didn't want to miss.
We forogt to go over our inspection list and to remember to connect the backup battery and therfore we didn't do anything in the autonomous time. Not that we had a fully functional autonomous code, but we knew the robot would atleast move to it's position if the backup battery would've been connected.
We were able to put 2 tubes on the rack, in on of the rounds making a row of 3 with our fellow practice alliance teams. Because we had problems with the lifting, we didn't want to try it on the alliance robots at that time for saftey reasons. We tried going on the other robot's ramps, but we figured our robot doesn't fit the ramp's size, so we don't have the abilty to drive up thier ramp.
We had a good practice after all. After the match, we went staright to our pit to get the lifting working. The whole process took us the rest of the day and the other 4 matches that we were supposed to practice. In the end, we finished with the problem with the jack unsolved and one of the jacks, after accidently pulling some PWM cables and putting them back, went way too far from it's limit and we broke the "nut"(Is that the right word?). All the small marbles or jooles droped and we broke on of the jacks.
To assist the major failure, we recieved a no go from our sponsor, our school, to bring out a project we had planned in order to really knock down the judges and receive the Rookie All Star. We've ended up funding the broken jack and the project by ourselves.
The project and the jacks will come by tommorow. We didn't have time this day to work on the autonomous, but we're hoping that untill our new jack arrives, we'll be able atleast to have our autonomous code working properlly.
I'll be summerizing each day of the competition from our team's side.
I hope it will interest you and we hope that mabye issues that might come up could be solved with your help.
Good luck to all the competing teams this week!
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