Chatsworth Scrimage

[SpaceOsc]

Whose Ready For the Chatsworth Scrimage? Whose going?

[sanddrag]

I'm going!

EDIT: Forgot to add that we will have about 9 students (our whole team), about four college mentors, a couple of adult mentors, and a couple parents.

[Redhead Jokes]

We have 25 people going, 19 are students

[Matt Leese]

Assuming we have a working robot, we'll be there (we're hoping our wheels get delivered today).

Matt

[Redhead Jokes]

Originally Posted by Matt Leese

Assuming we have a working robot, we'll be there (we're hoping our wheels get delivered today).

Working or not all teams are strongly encouraged to attend. There will be lots of help to get you up to speed.

[ChrisH]

Originally Posted by Matt Leese

Assuming we have a working robot, we'll be there (we're hoping our wheels get delivered today).

Matt

But Matt,

It's a Shmoebotics tradition to wire the whole robot at the scrimage!

The Scrimmage is a great place to continue working on your robot. More than one non-functioning robot turned into a working one last year. There are lots of experts around at all sorts of things, at least some of them won't be working on thier robot so they have time to help with yours.

Think of it as a regional without the pressure.

BTW the BeachBots will be there, those of us who aren't in the machine shop frantically building parts anyway.

[Yan Wang]

Will the hosts of this scrimmage provide a webcast for all interested FIRST folks?

[Matt Leese]

Originally Posted by ChrisH

But Matt,

It's a Shmoebotics tradition to wire the whole robot at the scrimage!

The Scrimmage is a great place to continue working on your robot. More than one non-functioning robot turned into a working one last year. There are lots of experts around at all sorts of things, at least some of them won't be working on thier robot so they have time to help with yours.

Think of it as a regional without the pressure.

BTW the BeachBots will be there, those of us who aren't in the machine shop frantically building parts anyway.

But it's a Matt tradition to frantically wire the robot the night before the scrimmage.

I think we'll be done in time. The only concern I have at the moment is getting the drive train installed and we should be doing that the next couple days (again, assuming are wheels actually arrive today).

Our issue isn't skilled people at the moment. Our issue is just getting it done. So we may need help with testing but I don't think we'll need it with assembly.

Matt

[Ken Leung]

Originally Posted by Matt Leese

But it's a Matt tradition to frantically wire the robot the night before the scrimmage.

I think we'll be done in time. The only concern I have at the moment is getting the drive train installed and we should be doing that the next couple days (again, assuming are wheels actually arrive today).

Our issue isn't skilled people at the moment. Our issue is just getting it done. So we may need help with testing but I don't think we'll need it with assembly.

Matt

Hey Matt (and others),

I will be in town this weekend visitng friends at UCLA. I think I am going to drop by at the scrimmage to see the robots. Even if you don't have a robot to bring to this scrimmage, you can still drop by for a chat ;-).

[SpaceOsc]

Originally Posted by Ken Leung

Hey Matt (and others),

I will be in town this weekend visitng friends at UCLA. I think I am going to drop by at the scrimmage to see the robots. Even if you don't have a robot to bring to this scrimmage, you can still drop by for a chat ;-).

thats awesome makes me wanna come by just to see the Great Ken Leung

[Matt Leese]

Originally Posted by SpaceOsc

thats awesome makes me wanna come by just to see the Great Ken Leung

I suppose this is the difference between Ken and me: people show up just to meet him.

I'm pretty sure we'll be at the scrimmage. Whether or not I'll have slept the past two days is undetermined but I think we'll be there.

Matt

[sanddrag]

In 2002 we worked until 7 AM before the scrimmage and then went, played once and fatally broke the drive system. In 2003, we worked until 2AM before the scrimmage, then went, played two good matches, won one, lost the other, then went back to school because we had to tear down the whole robot for lightening and replacing a bunch of parts.

This year, we are at Beach Cities right now (Friday Night), we will be tearing down the robot tomorrow morning to lighten, once lightened (by lunch), we will reassemble (after lunch), add finishing touches, and do a little programming testing. Once we get some code that works (around 4:30 hopefully), we will spend about an hour buffing and polishing all the aluminum to a mirror finish. We already spent four hours buffing and polishing previously on the frame so it should be quick for the rest of the stuff. We might not do a full four step (mirror finish) polish on the arm since it has so much surface area and the aluminum is pretty dark. We'll probably at least brighten it up though.

Anyway, then we will have dinner from 5:30-6:30 with our sponsors and parents and mentors and everyone. Then we will clean up, and leave at 7PM.

This is our pre-scrimmage plan, who knows if it will work. I sure hope the guys down at Beach cities tonight don't break my drivetrain (or any other part for that matter)

After the scrimmage, we will make our cost list, shipping crate, and robot cart. Then if we have time, we will make the robot look even cooler with a special colored substance.

[sanddrag]

I want everyone on CD who is going to come look for me. Ask anyone with 696 if Dave is around, that's me. I will be wearing a FIRST-SME card/leash with lots of buttons.

[Penny]

Originally Posted by Matt Leese

But it's a Matt tradition to frantically wire the robot the night before the scrimmage.

I think we'll be done in time. The only concern I have at the moment is getting the drive train installed and we should be doing that the next couple days (again, assuming are wheels actually arrive today).

Our issue isn't skilled people at the moment. Our issue is just getting it done. So we may need help with testing but I don't think we'll need it with assembly.

Matt

For us Southern Californians, let me clue you in. Matt has, as much if not more, FIRST experience than any of us -- he's been involved in Maryland and New York and is now on a co-op here in LA and started helping a team within a few days of landing! He's being very modest. I suspect that it will not be us helping him on Sunday, but rather he will be helping all the rest of us!

Ken, hope to see you at Chatsworth!

Penny (better known on CD as Joe's mom and/or Greg's wife)

[CharlieWilken]

Team 634 Van Nuys High School will be there. Without this event we would never stop trying to improve our robot. This gives the students a long period of time to practice. It gives us a temporal sense of completion for one day that amplifies our weakness and causes even more modifications. This year we will try and build a second similar robot for the students to practice on after we send the first one in. There never is enough practice time for the drivers!!!