2013 Lone Star Webcast

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by geomapguy

I think we'll see this matchup a lot in alliances. From the looks of it, 3847 in theory has one of the most reliable shooters due to their proximity.

I'm hoping they can stand up to the defense that's inevitably going to come down on them. Once teams catch on, they're likely to get pounded as soon as they hit the alliance wall and the lift starts heading up.

[geomapguy]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

I'm hoping they can stand up to the defense that's inevitably going to come down on them. Once teams catch on, they're likely to get pounded as soon as they hit the alliance wall and the lift starts heading up.

It looks like having a larger robot will be an advantage in taking down the smaller robots. We figured out that most of the robots won't be able to block our shooter due to its height.

[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

I'm hoping they can stand up to the defense that's inevitably going to come down on them. Once teams catch on, they're likely to get pounded as soon as they hit the alliance wall and the lift starts heading up.

So are we. We've beat up our practice bot a bit and it seems to still work most of the time. We're still developing a lot of stuff though so we're cautiously optimistic. We're also a little worried about this new low bar situation. Our robot is built to be an 1in under the bar but I've seen reports of the bar being under that at some of the week 1 regionals. We're helping to setup the field tomorrow night so hopefully we can get it closer to the right spec.

It's going to be a very interesting regional. Only two days left. I'm going to get scrap metal from Trident Metals tomorrow for the machine shop and I'm dropping off our pyramid tomorrow afternoon for the shooting practice field.

See everyone Thursday.

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

It's going to be a very interesting regional. Only two days left. I'm going to get scrap metal from Trident Metals tomorrow for the machine shop and I'm dropping off our pyramid tomorrow afternoon for the shooting practice field.

It's looking like the machine shop and spare parts are going to have a half ton of material to work with this year. You're not the only team bring up scrap material, after all.

Now if only we could figure out a way during the 6 weeks to get all this scrap material and expertise together with rookies that need more material and expertise...

[JaneYoung]

I'll be watching as much of the webcast as I can and cheering on my favorite team! And... some of my other favorite teams!

Thank you so much for the great news about the awesome webcast availability and thank you, NASA, for continuing your unwavering support of FIRST.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Jane

[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

It's looking like the machine shop and spare parts are going to have a half ton of material to work with this year. You're not the only team bring up scrap material, after all.

Now if only we could figure out a way during the 6 weeks to get all this scrap material and expertise together with rookies that need more material and expertise...

We sort of tried this with TX/RX Labs (Houston Hackerspace) but almost no teams took advantage of this. We had a few pieces CNC routed for us but I don't know if any other teams used the resources they were providing.

[lmedina]

So, like most of you I would not want to miss 57's unveil at Lone Star so I have traveled the dangerous and mysterious waters of the internet and have been granted permission by the almighty Lucia to run a webcast of the event.

The stream will be available on our website (www.robonauts.org)

Stayed tuned to see interviews of the teams attending, as well as a full view of the field during matches, and a few other surprises.

The stream will be live on Friday and Saturday. You may even get a glimpse of activities as we try and work all of the bugs out on Thursday.

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by lmedina

So, like most of you I would not want to miss 57's unveil at Lone Star so I have traveled the dangerous and mysterious waters of the internet and have been granted permission by the almighty Lucia to run a webcast of the event.

The stream will be available on our website (www.robonauts.org)

Stayed tuned to see interviews of the teams attending, as well as a full view of the field during matches, and a few other surprises.

The stream will be live on Friday and Saturday. You may even get a glimpse of activities as we try and work all of the bugs out on Thursday.

I hope this means there's going to be a nice super wide angle GoPro somewhere watching the whole field. I think the only downside to that style of webcasting as that you lose the scoring overlay. But you gain getting to see everything that's happening instead of the shiny train wreck the event producer is focusing on.

[Pjohn1959]

Helo-cam!

[lhood1]

The Gatorzillas have been working on some social media links for Lonestar Regional that we would like to share.

This one is a Facebook interest list that has the posts from the Lonestar regional teams' facebook pages:
https://www.facebook.com/lists/4837906180298
We have found 27 teams so far.

This one is a list of all of the Lonestar team twitter accounts:
https://twitter.com/lhood1/lonestar-regional-2013
We have found 26 team twitter accounts.

We have also been collecting Lonestar team spec sheets, reveal videos and photos on pinterest:
http://pinterest.com/gatorzillas/201...r-competition/
We have 22 pins so far.

If we have missed your team on any of these please let us know and we will add them as soon as possible.

[lynca]

Let's get a big invite to all your friends on Facebook !

Lone Star Regional Event : https://www.facebook.com/events/229780727157006/
(Webcast attendees can be invited as well )

Like txfirst.org on facebook and twitter as well !

[sergioCorral842]

Originally Posted by midway78224

I was seeing if it is just me or are other people have the same problem as me. The webcast is cutting out after about 10 secs or so. When i relaunch to watch again it does it again. Its been doing it all day. Do you know if this will be fix or just something thats happening to me.

It is happening to me as well. In those 10 seconds, it lags very bad as well.

Edit: Works now

[midway78224]

Originally Posted by sergioCorral842

It is happening to me as well. In those 10 seconds, it lags very bad as well.

Edit: Works now

Try this

The stream will be available on our website (http://ccisdrobonauts.org/?w=1366&h=768&p=streaming)

Its doesnt cut off or lag but it does not have sound.

[joelg236]

Couldn't find a lone star thread, how did this happen? Did 118 die? (I didn't see) http://www.thebluealliance.com/match/2013txho_qm29