2004 Survey

[Billfred]

1)Team Name: d5robotics

2)Team Number 1293

3)How many people on the team? 30ish

4)How many guys? 27ish

5)How Many girls? 3

6)What does everyone do? Everything--this particular year, we weren't too particularly organized, although we had more build-oriented people and fundraising-oriented people.

Design Questions
1) How long does it take to design various things on your robot (hours, days) We usually haggle over it for a few hours, maybe over a day or two, before it hits.

2) Do you prototype first? Not this year.

3) How many people design things? I recall at least ten warm bodies designing this or that.

4) How many people build things? Nearly everyone built something--more of the building fell onto about five or six folks.

5) How many hours a day do people put in towards the robot? Two hours on a Tuesday night, plus all day saturday--about ten hours a week this year.

6) Do you get professional engineers to help your team, or is it all teachers and students? We've got two.

Strategy Questions

1) How much experience do your drivers have? (years) 0

2) How much experience did your drivers get with the robot? Functionally 0.

3) Do you design to do everything well, or do you design to do one specific task extraordinarily? One task extraordinarily--or so we thought.

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. If I was fond of one thing on our robot, it would be our numbers. The Thursday at Palmetto, our fundraising/artsy coach didn't have the numbers that we'd done up all nice-like. So we did them in electrical tape. And it worked.

5) How much work did you put into the autonomous mode? Enough to get it just shy of hitting the ball.

6) What does your autonomous do? Get to the ten-point ball--whether it hits or not tends to be an issue of aim.


Other information
Speed (fps) Slow--like four to six. (We had window motors.)

Robustness (1-10) (10 being highest) 11. We were taking some serious checks in the sides from other robots, and we didn't have a ding.

Agility (1-10) 7. We couldn't screech out of somewhere, but we could move.

During the competition, did you feel that your alliance partner let your team down in some way? Not that I saw.

Did you let your alliance partner down in any way? We rocked as hard as we could--there was little to nothing else we could've done during the regional.

Where were you seeded before the finals round started (at the end of the qualification matches?) 27/42

Did you win any awards during the competition (spirit, leadership in control, etc.?) None.

Personal Info

What is your name? William Leverette

Age? 18, 17 during the season.

How long have you been on the team? 1 year

What was your role on the team? Miscellaneous student, fumble-through-the-dark scout, robot tackling dummy, occasional fabricator, and off-season pesterer.

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