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Re: 2007 New Hampshire Regional (BAE SYSTEMS Granite State Regional)
Who's gearing up for New England's first regional of the season? I'll be coaching for 1276.
Did anyone take a camera to BAE's robot revealing deal? Or are those teams trying to keep their robots a secret? Last year BAE hosted pictures of it on their site, but this year there is no such gallery. On the subject of those doing scouting before the regional, if you're interested... 1276 4 ft 120 lbs 6wd (all of which are tread covered) 3 speeds (4fps, 10fps, 15fps) Tube scoring on all levels Spoiler removal on all levels Pickup from the floor only Capable of climbing steep ramps, providing you don't have have high guide rails on the inside edge EG We can climb a ramp like this |_____ _____| But not like this |______| |_____| (unless the inside rails are shorter than 1.5") Ramps and Autonomous: Ask me Friday morning. |
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Re: 2007 New Hampshire Regional (BAE SYSTEMS Granite State Regional)
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I'm assuming you're talking about Unveiling. I don't know about pictures from BAE, but we have a mentor who takes pictures non-stop so I'll post some of the team's pictures here. I don't see a reason to keep robots a secret. If anyone has any serious problems, then just PM me or something and I can get rid of the picture. 131 More of 131 I'm assuming this is 134. 151 40 166's Magnificent Robot 238 241 811 1073 1277 1519 (there's another ramp that was deployed earlier) 1721 That's what I've got. Sorry about the lack of chassis pictures, but our photographer was sitting close to the stage. |
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Re: 2007 New Hampshire Regional (BAE SYSTEMS Granite State Regional)
I will be there on Friday and Saturday getting footage for The Blue Alliance. Can't wait!
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Re: 2007 New Hampshire Regional (BAE SYSTEMS Granite State Regional)
Chickenman from 229 is coming friday and possiblt saturday, I cant wait, it was my rookie year competition so it should be cool to return to the venue again as my last year on 229
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We have concepts for making our ramp interferences less of a problem. |
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Re: 2007 New Hampshire Regional (BAE SYSTEMS Granite State Regional)
is BAE being webcasted? if so where is the link?
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Re: 2007 New Hampshire Regional (BAE SYSTEMS Granite State Regional)
I don't believe it is being web-casted... but I am recording the regional and will be uploading it all to the SOAP archives early next week. I may be wrong, but I don't remember it being on the webcast schedule.
My team, team 610, will be traveling down to BAE for the first time, joining 296 as the Canadian contingent down there. I think you'll be seeing alot of the Canadian flag this weekend . Here are some specs on our robot:- 6 wheel drive - 2 speed AndyMark Gearbox's - Turreted arm - Two joints on the arm, main joint and manipulator joint - The upper portion of the arm also extends out - here is a pic: http://img47.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0035ch6.jpg |
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Re: 2007 New Hampshire Regional (BAE SYSTEMS Granite State Regional)
So after a day of watching this game, here are a couple of observations:
With defense, it becomes very difficult to score, and if a robot of the opposing alliance is between you and the end zone, you aren't getting home. While today seemed promising that high scores would happen (there were several instances of a row of 8), I don't see that happening tommorow. Also, there needs to be a ramp graveyard. Several teams removed them. Also, although ramps are few and far between, they are a match swinger, assuming you get robots up them. No Bumpers?!?! In our row of the pits, which is about 1/3 of the 46 teams at the regional, there are about 3 robots with full bumpers. Just plain double ramp bots will be at a premium. This game is all about teamwork. You must work with your alliance partners, and follow your strategy to the end. We scored much better in our practice matches when we had a plan then when all just tried to score as much as possible. |
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There are a couple of ramps, but none of them look really promising. We tried to get up one, but we ran out of time. Teams would seriously have to get back really early on in hopes of getting up a ramp. A forklift design might be different, but ramps definately provide some trouble. The rack does really swing around. There were many many instances when a team would place a tube on the goal and try to back away without letting go of the tube. The rack proceded to shake violently and I actually did see a couple teams miss putting rings on while the goal while it was swinging. Not many human players scored on the rack. One of our mentors (who is actually a field resetter for this event) said she counted four tubes scored by human players. One of those was scored by our human player. ![]() As far as I know, only one team (Buzz 175) was able to score in autonomous. I saw a couple of very good scorers. I see most of the time between scoring tubes is taken up by actually picking up the tube. It takes some time to line up, actually grab it, and all that. That's my overview of just what happened during practice matches. Last edited by Dan Petrovic : 01-03-2007 at 21:34. |
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Re: 2007 New Hampshire Regional (BAE SYSTEMS Granite State Regional)
Any robot pictures taken today that you can upload?
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Thats what I learned today. I hope that teams realize that 30-60 points a round might be worth sacrificing those little pool noodles for a round or two. |
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Re: 2007 New Hampshire Regional (BAE SYSTEMS Granite State Regional)
Modifying your robot to "fix" another team's design flaw = Bad, period.
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Re: 2007 New Hampshire Regional (BAE SYSTEMS Granite State Regional)
Andy, that last match together, that team couldn't get up your ramps b/c they were on backwards and scraping on the ground... I did tell them to turn around to their other end and it would have worked.
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Re: 2007 New Hampshire Regional (BAE SYSTEMS Granite State Regional)
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It wasn't my intention to single out any teams in that statment. I think its just a fact of life...bumpers make it more difficult to climb ramps. I think you guys would have been fine climbing on top of us. In response to Tom, you are partially right...its not necessarily fair for teams to have to pull off bumpers to climb another robot...but when the robots that dictate whether or not you might win a round or the championship need these little tweaks, it might be a risk worth taking. Also note that in the matches I watched at the scrimmage et al, there must have been ALOT of design flaws. I dont know if I saw a bumpered robot sucessfully climb a ramp bot all day at the scrimmage. I couldn't tell you how many did or not yesterday because I wasn't watching. My conclusion...not necessarily a design flaw, but more envelope dictating ramp. We shall see though. |
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Have fun with the delay today, see you around 1 pm Mr. Grady. |
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