2007 Boilermaker Regional!!!

[yoshi1319]

I see Team 1319 on there, So I'm guessing that we're PLANNING to go. Gotta do a little Fundraising though ^^;; Annnd. It'll be awesome becasue if we do go, It'll be on my Birthday! ^_^ ((March 16)) The big 1-6 Baby! ((Just so y'all know)) Oh! And good luck Everyone that's going!

**Edit** I see she posted something already saying we're going. lol. Woo! Can't Wait then! ^_^

-Nick ((1319 Flash))

[Wayne Doenges]

Team 1501 wil definitely be there. There is nothing that can keep us away.
Well, maybe a major snow storm

Will someone who is on the Boilermaker regional planning board please contact me off list. My e-mail is: rcwarthog@comcast.net

Thanks

[AmyPrib]

Hay all,
If you are attending BMR, student or adult, please go to our website and register for your name badge. If you are planning to attend the social activities after the dinner Friday, it will be required.

http://first.purdue.org/boilermakerregional/

Since we have gotten several inquiries so far, we are in fact planning to host campus and facility tours as we have in the past. Details are not yet finalized, but hope to be soon.

Thanks,

[RedHeadRobotics]

Team 2081 is registered and ready to go!!!!

Hope to see you all there

[Curt Henderson]

So with the robots shipped and the attending team list pretty much complete, what is this regional going to be known as...... a ringer based or lifter based competition? Let hear some strategies!


With our strategy being an end game lifter, should the majority of the teams be doing the same, the importance of each lift will become critcal. It will make each lift so important for score ratings.

[efoote868]

We'll be using St. Louis as a practice to BMR, so by then we should be fine tuned and primed to go.

Our strategy is solely placing tubes. We'll be the team to get up your ramp.

[Taylor]

Indy rampees unite! We also will be driving upon our alliance partners after two minutes of ringer-placing excitement.

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by boiler

Indy rampees unite! We also will be driving upon our alliance partners after two minutes of ringer-placing excitement.

We will se if we keep our ramps or not after St. Louis.

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by IndySam

We will se if we keep our ramps or not after St. Louis.

You guys are gonna need those ramps... 45 is another tube-bot. No ramps here.

AB

[Goober!!!]

it looks so far that BMR is going to be an arm regional!!!

good for 1501!!!

[Qbranch]

1024... if you've seen, has an elevator mounted manipulator with several degrees of freedom, capable of scoring on all three levels and changing the orientation of the tube within its gripper. It can also remove tubes from the rack. Nice speedy drivetrain too... software's coming along so multi-mode autonomous as well.

Depending on how many helium baloons we can find (or how good we get at carbon fiber n such), one or two full width ramps....

Pics without the bumpers on: Mast Up Mast Down Shot

-q

[Protronie]

At first when I saw the other pics I thought that gripper might have been too large to be any good but with a tube that gripper doesn't look so oversize.
I like the idea of using the wheels on the end of the fingers... shouldn't have to worry much about popping a tube.

Wish you guys were coming to Palmetto Regional in South Carolina... would like to see that gripper in action.

Well Good Luck and Have FUN!

Originally Posted by Qbranch

1024... if you've seen, has an elevator mounted manipulator with several degrees of freedom, capable of scoring on all three levels and changing the orientation of the tube within its gripper. It can also remove tubes from the rack. Nice speedy drivetrain too... software's coming along so multi-mode autonomous as well.

Depending on how many helium baloons we can find (or how good we get at carbon fiber n such), one or two full width ramps....

Pics without the bumpers on: Mast Up Mast Down Shot

-q

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by Andy Baker

You guys are gonna need those ramps... 45 is another tube-bot. No ramps here.

AB

well then depending on how things go we may ditch the manipulator and extend the ramps. Those build windows may be fun.

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by Andy Baker

You guys are gonna need those ramps... 45 is another tube-bot. No ramps here.
AB

Heh... we definitely got to know those ramps in St. Louis, as we got on them in 6 out of 6 matches in the finals.

Kudos to the Digital Goats! The rest of you have to check out this ingenious design, that 829 has put together. I really didn't understand this cam lifting mechanism until I saw it lift our robot. See you at the Armory!

Andy B.

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by Andy Baker

Heh... we definitely got to know those ramps in St. Louis, as we got on them in 6 out of 6 matches in the finals.

Kudos to the Digital Goats! The rest of you have to check out this ingenious design, that 829 has put together. I really didn't understand this cam lifting mechanism until I saw it lift our robot. See you at the Armory!

Andy B.

All through the qualifying matches we never had two robots in our alliance capable of climbing a ramp, even one that was only 18 degrees like ours. I was wondering if our design was ever going to get a chance to be tested in battle. When you and 1444 climbed our ramp in that first quarter final match and our robot wouldn’t move, my heart sank. In the video you can see me looking down at the wheels to see if they were turning (and trying to figure out how to blame the AM transmissions for the failure) when the guy from IFI came over and reset our controller and up she went! I almost jumped out of my shoes I was so happy.

Thanks for finally showing that we weren’t crazy.