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Re: After Coming Back From The LA Regional: My Thoughts On FIRST
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Originally Posted by davidthefat
My team gave out little tridents in the competition this year... we made like 300 of those... Im thinking of making an app or game for the iPhone or Android (or both) and selling it. May be Xbob Live even
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I saw a bunch of kids (of ALL ages) playing with those tridents...very cool.
BTW, our robot driver from the Arizona Regional was unable to compete in LA, so the guy who was operating the kicker became the robot driver and a new student jumped in on kicker/roller control. The new robot driver literally drove the wheels off of our 2008 robot getting some practice since AZ. By time Sat afternoon came around, the robot driving was vastly improved.
As far as controllers and communications, this is the second year FRC is using the cRIO and the 5 GHz gaming adapter. FIRST doesn't have the resources for R&D of a major manufacturer of video games, still they put a sophisticated, high bandwidth communications architecture with a substantial amount of processing power in each robot. It will take time to work through all the bugs, with a lot of the "testing" occurring at the events. By finding and reporting problems, you are part of the solution. Over time, it will all get better.
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2003 AZ: Semifinals, Motorola Quality; SoCal: Q-finals, Xerox Creativity; IRI: Q-finals
2004 AZ: Semifinals, GM Industrial Design; SoCal: Winners, Leadership in Controls; Championship: Galileo #2 seed, Q-finals; IRI: Champions
2005 AZ: #1 Seed, Xerox Creativity; SoCal: Finalist, RadioShack Controls; SVR: Winners, Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technologies"; Championship: Archimedes Semifinals; IRI: Finalist
2007 LA: Finalist; San Diego: Q-finals; CalGames: Finalist || 2008 San Diego: Q-finals; LA: Winners; CalGames: Finalist || 2009 LA: Semifinals; Las Vegas: Q-finals; IRI: #1 Seed, Finalist
2010 AZ: Motorola Quality; LA: Finalist || 2011 SD: Q-finals; LA: Q-finals || 2013 LA: Xerox Creativity, WFFA, Dean's List Finalist || 2014 IE: Q-finals, LA: Finalist, Dean's List Finalist
2016 Ventura: Q-finals, WFFA, Engineering Inspiration
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