2011 Peachtree Regional

[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)

[Billfred]

Hoo boy, what a day!

We've been run through the wringer on the field, mostly control system glitches. Just as important, it's never been the same glitch twice:

1) Bridge spontaneously disconnected (we've rechecked all the connections)
2) Joysticks got unhooked (we've taped them into the USB hub
3) Plain wouldn't talk to the FMS (only happened once)
4) Digital sidecar lost power (everything has been replugged)
5) Bypassed right before our bridge connected up (happened before the field crew started having us power up earlier)
6) Banged up our claw at the end of the day (we've got the parts to fix it in the morning)

(Yes, that's six robot mishaps in seven matches. It has been a long, long, long day. )

We believe (hope?) we've shaken out most of the bugs now--we'll see which is the more correct word choice in the morning. Thanks to all the teams who've been helping us out along the way!

[ATannahill]

Did no one submit an animation?

[Jimmy K]

Those were some epic (and mostly lopsided) elimination matches (until the finals). It was totally worth waking up at 6:30 this morning to go see this (even though my own team failed to connect to the field in several matches :facepalm: ). Congrats to both of the top 2 alliances (2415, 1771, 2815) and (3149, 1261, 1648), and good luck at St. Louis.

[Chris is me]

Who won?