Apology from 612 @VCU, & also congrats...

[ggoldman]

Originally posted by LeeD
The Apology...

Did Sparkey have any mechanical problems ya had to fix between fights?
I know our bot, once the wedge was tweaked and working, only really had physical damage to our wire mesh(protecting the electronics), and we had a wire(front left motor wire) that constantly became un-sodered at the end of the later matches due to the heat generated when we were pushing people I think, luckily our back motor's never went out (they are torqued up soo much we wouldnt move, pushed by other robots or pulling of the other motors)




By the way, where is team 384 based?


Great match from Team 612 (Chantilly Academy--Northern Virginia), Wish we could join you all in nationals =)

Firstly... thank you for the kind words on behalf of team 384.

To answer your questions.

1) To the best of my knowledge we did not break any major parts. (i believe the only thing that broke was one of our wings which we stopped using by the third or so match. The only work on the robot was done as preventative measures..
Also, due to our refabricated drive system, or motors and fuses stayed at a moderate temperature.

A side note on flipping...while im here..
We were prepared for robot flipping and our arm was origionally designed only to flip our robot back over if it was flipped. We then found other uses for it..including stacking ironically. Also, we built our robot with a steel base in anticipation of this year's game.

2) Where are we based?
384 hails from J.R.Tucker high school in Richmond,Va (about 15 minutes away from where the regional was held)

again thank you for the kind words and please ask if u have any more..

Congradulations to everyone at VCU for an awesome competition...the best one i've seen in four years of FIRST

Gabe Goldman
FIRST Volunteer
Mentor team 384
ASME/VCU FIRST STUDENT COORDINATOR