2004 Survey

1)Team Name: Newport Robotics Group
2)Team Number: 948

3)How many people on the team? ~30

4)How many guys? ~27
5)How Many girls? 3
6)What does everyone do PR team, Animation Team, Build/Design Team, Web Site Team

Design Questions
1) How long does it take to design various things on your robot (hours, days) Design takes about 2 days. Final designs are often "just-in-time" designed.

2) Do you prototype first? Very rarely.

3) How many people design things? A few

4) How many people build things? About 10

5) How many hours a day do people put in towards the robot? "Core" team puts in around more than 16 hours a week.

6) Do you get professional engineers to help your team, or is it all teachers and students?

Yes, we have professional engineers. We have two professional programmers, and two who own a machine shop.


Strategy Questions

1) How much experience do your drivers have? (years) 3 years

2) How much experience did your drivers get with the robot? 1 week max.

3) Do you design to do everything well, or do you design to do one specific task extraordinarily?

We design to do everything well, but we go to competition and find out what two things we do best, and actually do only those things.

4) Do you have a very special thing on your robot, some cool design or whatnot? and If so what is it. Please describe it.

After the first day of practice on Thursday at PNWR, we found out our winch motor could get backdriven and let out robot glide down to the floor from the hook. So we used a dremel and hacksaw and created notches on our winch drum and created a ratchet using a servo, a paper clip, and a randomly shaped piece of scrap metal.


5) How much work did you put into the autonomous mode?
1 week

6) What does your autonomous do?
2 modes: ram our goal under opponent's ball release; block opponents ball tee from being triggered


Other information
Speed (fps)
don't know! medium-high
Robustness (1-10) (10 being highest)
9.5
Agility (1-10)
8

During the competition, did you feel that your alliance partner let your team down in some way?
no.
Did you let your alliance partner down in any way?
no.
Where were you seeded before the finals round started (at the end of the qualification matches?)
4th seed
Did you win any awards during the competition (spirit, leadership in control, etc.?)
n/a

Personal Info

What is your name?
[removed]
Age?
11th grade
How long have you been on the team?
3 years (since team creation)
What was your role on the team?
student leader, programmer, webmaster, ...

[Nate Edwards]

1)Team Name WATSON Robotics

2)Team Number 957

3)How many people on the team?25

4)How many guys?19

5)How Many girls?6

6)What does everyone do Options for teams include Pit Crew, Drive Team, chariman's, Scrapbooking and Programming. All members do Fundraising.

Design Questions
1) How long does it take to design various things on your robot (hours, days) 6 weeks... each part is different

2) Do you prototype first?yes

3) How many people design things?8

4) How many people build things?10

5) How many hours a day do people put in towards the robot?6

6) Do you get professional engineers to help your team, or is it all teachers and students? Yes some Engineers, Teachers and Students

Strategy Questions

1) How much experience do your drivers have? (years) 2

2) How much experience did your drivers get with the robot? A couple of weeks

3) Do you design to do everything well, or do you design to do one specific task extraordinarily?

Everything

4) Do you have a very special thing on your robot, some cool design or whatnot? and If so what is it. Please describe it.

We have a Frying Pan on our robot which is pretty cool. It is used to pick up the 2x ball like a suction cup.


5) How much work did you put into the autonomous mode? A few weeks

6) What does your autonomous do? Can just go Straight, Go Straight and turn or follow line


Other information
Speed (fps) not sure top speed in high gear is near 20 MPH

Robustness (1-10) (10 being highest) 8

Agility (1-10) 8


During the competition, did you feel that your alliance partner let your team down in some way? yes, our alliance partners hurt us in the qualification rounds... but during the elimination rounds we couldn't have had a better alliance. Since we won. But its all good, sometimes you have good luck and sometimes you have bad luck its just the luck of the draw.

Did you let your alliance partner down in any way? Probaly, because we flipped over a couple of times when we shouldn't have, and had a couple of mechanical failures but we fixed most of our problems.

Where were you seeded before the finals round started (at the end of the qualification matches?)

Did you win any awards during the competition (spirit, leadership in control, etc.?) We won the Regional and we won the Sportsmanship Award. We also won a couple team awards.

Personal Info

What is your name? Nate Edwards

Age? 17

How long have you been on the team? 3 years

What was your role on the team? Chair #2(Vice President), Drive Team Practice Supervisor, Scarpbooker, Programming Team Captian, Fundraising machine, Sponsor, Lego League Mentor...