Green Machine Competition!

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1511 is in!! Our application was accepted. We actually have a mentor who took some coursework recently in FuelCells for work, so we just need to free him of his real work duties so he can come mentor our kids all the time!! lol.

This is going to be so cool... I think some of our mentors are actually more excited than some of the students! lol.

Originally Posted by RAWRimaPANDA

Build Season for the project overlaps FRC Build Season for about a month or so, what are your teams planning to do during that time? Do you have a group for FRC and another group for this?

We havent lain a solid plan, but the majority of the group interested in the fuel cell project is our electrical team. While some of them will have to work double duty, it is nice that it doesnt completely overlap build season. They can get some of their preliminary work done before fuel cell gets hectic in the last few weeks, skip out on us for two weeks, and then rejoin us once the final submission is in.

Plus I dont know if we plan on killing ourselves over it... it is a pilot program, and we are more in it for the chance to play with the cool new technology than to win anything.

All that said, it is a little easier for our team as 90% of our mentors are electrical or programming by trade. (go figure, software defined radios??)

Anyways, good luck to everyone else!!

On a similar note, would anyone be interested in sharing/discussing on CD? ie should we ask for our own Board (like the NI Labview board?)