2011 Peachtree Regional

[HarveyAce]

Gonna be at the Regional around 10-11 oclock thursday! have to travel 5-6 hrs to get there by bus! Also have to give the team a debrief as a lot of them haven't even seen the bot! Super excited though, and its gonna be fun working with Circuit Runners, Kell, Walton, and the Flying Platipy on the Peachtree Scouting Alliance!

[Shmee]

One more day!

Anyways, just some stuff from 2415:

1) This announcement was in the team email, but just a reminder: if you guys have any old tools (that still work of course), please bring them to Peachtree for our tool drive! These tools will be used to help rookie teams get started next year so we'd really appreciate it. We'll have some sort of box or crate hopefully near pit admin for them.

Also, bring your batteries and other recyclables! As always.

2) For the second year, we will be launching our Internship Linking Service, after some technical difficulties last year. Sorry out-of-state teams, it's only for Georgia kids right now, but to any Georgia kids: if you're interested in having a STEM-related internship over the summer, sign up on one of our computers which will be at the Technology Associates of Georgia (which consists of over 50 companies) table near Scholarship Row. We will have people there to explain more details and flyers and whatnot, but just a heads up. It doesn't take long at all for the initial sign-up, and we'll follow up with interested kids after Peachtree.

3) Don't forget about our Adopt-a-Tree program! We have new applications and our trees have arrived, so offset your carbon emissions and join the Green Alliance (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...reen+alliance), all by planting some trees

Best of luck! See you guys at the competition!

[ttldomination]

Originally Posted by Shmee

2) For the second year, we will be launching our Internship Linking Service, after some technical difficulties last year. Sorry out-of-state teams, it's only for Georgia kids right now, but to any Georgia kids: if you're interested in having a STEM-related internship over the summer, sign up on one of our computers which will be at the Technology Associates of Georgia (which consists of over 50 companies) table near Scholarship Row. We will have people there to explain more details and flyers and whatnot, but just a heads up. It doesn't take long at all for the initial sign-up, and we'll follow up with interested kids after Peachtree.

Does this apply only to FIRST students or is it open to team alumni as well?

So about 24 hours to go. I think 1261 got our deployment mechanism pat yesterday. All I can say is .

[speedbuggy76]

Some new video of 2415 from the Alamo regional: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJyzZ_qUd4Y

See you all tomorrow!

[ttldomination]

Originally Posted by speedbuggy76

Some new video of 2415 from the Alamo regional: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJyzZ_qUd4Y

See you all tomorrow!

Nice.

I really dig the tension system you guys have for the energy chains for the wires.

- Sunny

[dangerousdave]

Originally Posted by speedbuggy76

Some new video of 2415 from the Alamo regional: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJyzZ_qUd4Y

See you all tomorrow!

Nicely done video. Good to see 2415 in competitive action.
Dave

[Billfred]

I'm up and running here after an....enlightening....night at the hotel. Time for some robots!

[ttldomination]

Hello Everyone,

For those of searching for a webcast, the link is here.

But it doesn't start till tomorrow so awesome stuff.

Enjoy,
Sunny

[nighterfighter]

So I'm NOT liking the so called "practice field".

~1/4th of a full field, one set of peg racks, none of the pegs have reflexite (we had to add 2 of our own reflexite strips to test our autonomous) and it doesn't even have a full plated aluminum backing (for sonar sensor reflection). And it is so tiny that you can only fit 1 robot at a time.

Other than that, it has been going great so far. Only saw a few field connection issues, but they seemed to have been solved by lunch time.

[ttldomination]

Originally Posted by nighterfighter

~1/4th of a full field, one set of peg racks, none of the pegs have reflexite (we had to add 2 of our own reflexite strips to test our autonomous) and it doesn't even have a full plated aluminum backing (for sonar sensor reflection). And it is so tiny that you can only fit 1 robot at a time. .

0_o What are they doing with all of that open space then?

- Sunny

[Vikesrock]

Practice day seemed to run pretty smoothly from the bits and pieces I saw.

3573 was a little ugly in our practice matches, but we dialed in our arm automation in the last hour or so of pit time which should allow much better floor pickup and hopefully bring us from 1-2 tubes to 3+.

Our minibot is getting a complete overhaul and will hopefully up and running in the morning.

Looking forward to seeing everybody bright and early tomorrow morning.

Also a huge thanks to NASA MSFC for the webcast!

[Billfred]

Hoo boy, nothing like a day like today to shake any rust out of you. (I think taking last season off from coaching made me a little soft!)

Props to the inspectors for a reasonably painless process, as well as the field crew for staying late to ensure that everyone hooked up with the field.

We didn't get to practice today, as we were chasing a few minor programming bugs, making a go/no-go decision on the minibot (currently a no-go...darn Tetrix motors...) and replacing the axles on our arm. Some dimwit with a business degree thought it was a good idea to use threaded rod there . Of course, the replacement axles that arrived today at lunchtime were a touch oversized and obnoxious to try to take down (sorry, NASA machine shop!). Our hybrid axles (one obnoxious steel axle, one threaded rod axle for our shoulder sprocket, and two big fat 350-pounds-tensile-strength zip ties in between) seem to be holding up decently, so we'll run with them tomorrow and see what happens.

And for those who asked us about the shirts: Tomorrow.

[whackedwatchdog]

Would anyone happen to be able to get up a match schedule for those of us watching from home? I'm stuck at Georgia Tech until around 2, and would like to ignore my professors a bit better!

[Ed Sparks]

Sorry I couldn't be with you all this year. The good news is I'm employed again after 9 months of unemployment. The bad news is I'm employed now with no time off built up. See ya' next year!

[Shmee]

The practice field is said to have been cut because Scholarship Row got moved into the pit area rather than outside in the hall.

Match list is up on usfirst.org (http://www2.usfirst.org/2011comp/eve...edulequal.html)