Week 1 Event Notice - FIRST Robotics Canada

[Duncan Macdonald]

Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur

Is it possible to have multiple web streams with differing angles, such as 1 full field fisheye and 2 half court fixed traditional feeds where the viewer can decide which angle(s)/feed(s) they wish to view?

My primary focus to this point has been on the scout centre and making that video feed as robust as possible. We are overlaying the scoreboard from the standard feed over fisheye video. Minus the FRC field this setup has been tested and works locally to any computer plugged into the crescent network.

Adam/Watchfirstnow is providing us with 2 streaming setups. One will be playing the traditional overhead feed and one will play the fisheye feed. I would recommend watching the fisheye one because while both webcasts are 720p the input from the traditional feed is 480p.

What you are asking is possible but requires 2 additional cameras, 2 additional capture devices, and additional field-side clutter. (We toyed with the idea of additional cameras and joked about mounting GoPros inside the truss facing each direction.)

[Siri]

Originally Posted by LeelandS

Dang. A couple friends and I were planning a trip up there to see the action and catch up with some friends, but I guess that's on the backburner now

Anyone in this boat - maybe they still need volunteers?

Credit: dawned on me because Koko Ed is synonymous with 'volunteer' in my head.

[Tem1514 Mentor]

Hi John,

We all need to thank 610 for stepping up to the plate and allowing all the local Toronto teams to us the Crecent school venue.

You indicated that the event will run from Friday to SUNDAY, so has the event format changed from the Thursday to Saturday format? Would you please provide more on the schedule if running Fri-Sun.

thanks

[Mr. Lim]

Originally Posted by Tem1514 Mentor

Hi John,

We all need to thank 610 for stepping up to the plate and allowing all the local Toronto teams to us the Crecent school venue.

You indicated that the event will run from Friday to SUNDAY, so has the event format changed from the Thursday to Saturday format? Would you please provide more on the schedule if running Fri-Sun.

thanks

The event agenda can be found here:

http://frclinks.com/e/g/onto2

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by Mr. Lim

The event agenda can be found here:

http://frclinks.com/e/g/onto2

I'm loving that 9am start Friday.

[wendells]

Hats off to Crescent School for hosting the GTA West FRC. l think that Saturday and Sunday are the perfect days for the competition.
Good Luck to all.

[Tem1514 Mentor]

Originally Posted by Gregor

I'm loving that 9am start Friday.

Me too,the 401 can be a real traffic jam in the morning

[hobbins]

Yes, the event has a unique schedule allowing us to start late on Friday and to run through Saturday and Sunday. It will be interesting to see how this plays out, but I suspect that it will be good! We expect the actual event to be amazing

[Mr. Lim]

Thanks everyone who commented in this thread.

Crescent and Team 610 have been working hard with FIRST Robotics Canada to make this event one of the best regionals in all of FIRST.

It was unfortunate that the Hershey Centre was not available to host the GTRW this year, but thanks to the hard work of a lot of people behind the scenes, we were able to find a last-minute alternate venue for the GTRW in our school's Field House.

Although Crescent and Team 610 have a "large" presence in the Robotics community, we are actually a very small school. Our Upper School (Grades 9 to 12) has less than 400 students! Most people are very surprised to hear we are this small.

We are certainly punching well above our weight class in hosting an FRC Regional while still fielding a team to compete in it. But thanks to all the volunteers involved, we know that the event will be one of the best ever.

Speaking of volunteers, we are always looking for more excellent volunteers to help our event run! You can sign up on online via VIMS here:

https://my.usfirst.org/FIRSTPortal/L...IMS_Login.aspx

And in addition, we could always use a few non-event volunteers to help us clear the Field House before the event, and restore it afterwards! We have Crescent teachers who've graciously volunteered to come in between their classes to help do this, but we could always use more hands! More information is available in the link below. Volunteering for clearing or restoring the Field House won't get you in during the event, however - you'll still need to volunteer for an actual EVENT volunteer position above via VIMS if you want to be able to get in to watch the event. Why not volunteer for both?

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=125567

[Bochek]

A live feed of the setup for GTR West has started. It will run today and tomorrow. You can check it out at http://www.watchfirstnow.com/live/3

[Racer26]

Originally Posted by Bochek

A live feed of the setup for GTR West has started. It will run today and tomorrow. You can check it out at http://www.watchfirstnow.com/live/3

Doesn't seem to work, Adam.

[Duncan Macdonald]

We needed to reboot the machine to get other stuff running. Don't worry you didn't miss anything the bleachers still aren't assembled.

[Bochek]

Originally Posted by Racer26

Doesn't seem to work, Adam.

I've left for myrtle beach. Duncan is going to handle the setup of the equipment this weekend. When I left he was working on getting the scouting center feed working. Expect the live broadcast to be up and down over the next couple days.

[Racer26]

Originally Posted by Bochek

I've left for myrtle beach. Duncan is going to handle the setup of the equipment this weekend. When I left he was working on getting the scouting center feed working. Expect the live broadcast to be up and down over the next couple days.

Still not seeing a working stream, Duncan. Is it my internet connection?

[Duncan Macdonald]

No. Moving the internet drop to the scorers table took priority.