"Regional Competition Edition" of Fresh From the Forum

[Ken Leung]

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II. Online Sources for this year’s competition
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A lot of people worked really hard to provide us information of competitions and robots from across the country. To name a few, “Search Out Alliance Possibilities” started by team 108 archived all matches of the KSC southeast regional (March 7th~9th) and allowed everyone to download them, Jason Rudolph started an impressive online gallery that collected all the robots’ picture he can find on web pages (a collection of 225 robots as of now), the KSC website with pictures of all the KSC regional robots and match results, NASA archived the 2 Lone Star Championship and Buckeye Match 74 matches, and posters who posted details of their robots in the chief Delphi forum. Great Thanks to everyone for their effort!

Also, I’ve managed to archive the Cleveland regional webcast on Saturday. Even though it doesn’t have sound, it should be pretty good for those of you who are interested in scouting the robots in that regional. They are posted on www.firstrobotics.net . Make sure you have Divx 4 codec to watch the video files.

So, for those of you who missed out on the action, here is your chance to look at them. If you are eager of look at the Chief’s robot, check out Match 74 in the NASA archive, and the Cleveland archive.


Check out this list of sources of online robot resources this year:

SOAP 108’s archive of KSC regional: http://www.soap108.com/2002/events/fl/movies/

Jason Rudolph’s online gallery: http://www.firstrobotics.net

KSC regional website with team list and photo: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/robotics/

Lone Star Championship Matches and Buckeye Match 74 Archive: http://robotics.nasa.gov/events/webcasts/lonestar.htm
http://robotics.nasa.gov/archive/webcasts.htm

Chief Delphi forum gallery: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pictures.php?s=

Team 188’s NASA TV links: http://www.team188.com/2002/videos/nasatv.shtml

Index of posts of teams sharing info about their robot: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...&threadid=3174


After seeing how many teams are willing to share information of their robots, I asked a lot of teams: “Are you willing to let others take picture of your robot?” and got a lot of “yes!” replies. A lot of people have some good points about sharing robot designs, and I thought they are worth sharing with everyone. Take a look at the thread @ http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...&threadid=2855

So, I really do encourage teams to share their ideas of the robot. After all, this competition is really about learning from each other, and inspiration of science and technology. Don’t be afraid to upload pictures to these online sources, or look at pictures of other robots and use ideas they have. We are better off if everyone learn more in this competition, as participants in this FIRST robotics competition, or as scientist and engineers in this society.
And hopefully when I go near your pit area to take pictures, I will be greeted with a friendly "Hi!", instead of getting kicked out of teams' pit area and be warned "DON'T YOU EVER COME CLOSE TO OUR ROBOT AGAIN!"

Go to the Chief Delphi forum gallery upload page @ http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...ion=uploadform


Or visit http://www.firstrobotics.net to share pictures of your robot. Mean while, if you went to a regional competition this year, please take as many pictures as possible, and show the rest of us across the country what your competition look like.

Go to the Robot Showcase forum to show off your robot @
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/fo...?s=&forumid=58


Please Send me an e-mail if I missed out any online sources for competition/robots information.