2007 Arizona Regional

[Don Knight]

Thu
Mar 8 Sunny
83°/58°

Fri
Mar 9 Mostly Sunny
84°/59°

Sat
Mar 10 Mostly Sunny
87°/58°

Teams don't forget to attend the Team Social at the Arizona Science Center Friday Evening.

Also there is a good chance that the Arizona Regional will be webcast thanks to NASA

Looking forward to hosting a great competition.

[Mark Pierce]

Originally Posted by Don Knight

Sunny 83°/58° ... Mostly Sunny 84°/59° ... Mostly Sunny 87°/58°

That sounds so much better than lows below zero in West Michigan! Although I'll be there without my team, I'm looking forward to cheering on 1164 and all the other teams. It will be good to see some of my family and explore Arizona also.

[Ken Loyd]

Hey Don,

You forgot to tell our out of state visitors to pack a sweater. It might get chilly at night (like mid 50's.) Team #39 is looking forward to seeing everyone. If there is anything we can do to help you or your team, please stop by our pit.

To those of you who have not heard Don's announcing, he is one of the best in FIRST! Ian Lao, the head referee, is outstanding. Everyone involved with the Arizona Regional are top notch, which is why the Arizona Regional is one of the top FIRST Regionals. Three days and holding our breaths.

Ken

[Donut]

I look forward to Arizona being awesome, as always. I don't think we'll have Mark at MC again this year (I'm guessing he'll be at LA), but we always seem to get a good MC regardless.

And we've got Don Knight at announcer. That in itself makes the regional good.

A reminder to all teams attending; team 498 will be making DVDs again this year of all matches at the regional, as well as most (or all) of the opening/closing ceremonies and the awards presentations. We have been giving these out to teams for the past 2 years now, and I hope we can get it to even more of the teams attending this year (I think we managed to get them to about 2/3 of all teams attending last year, I want to beat that this time!). We'll likely be having a list go around with our team for people to sign up for them at the Regional.

[mormannoob]

Originally Posted by Donut

I look forward to Arizona being awesome, as always. I don't think we'll have Mark at MC again this year (I'm guessing he'll be at LA), but we always seem to get a good MC regardless.
.

hey Don, if Mark isnt the MC do you know who is

[Don Knight]

Originally Posted by mormannoob

hey Don, if Mark isnt the MC do you know who is

Yeah, Our Emcee this year is Jeff Seaton, he's awesome. He did the VCU regional last week, he's doing ours and I think one other regional, and of course he'll be at the Championships again this year.

I had the pleasure of being a play-by-play announcer for him the last couple of years at the Championships as we all rotated fields, Arizona is in for another treat.

[Ken Loyd]

Jeff is OUTSTANDING! I am pretty sure he has been the "gala.....layo" guy for years at the championships. There are none better!

Ken

[Donut]

Sounds like AZ will be great again this year! Alot of surprises robot wise, I've seen virtually no pictures from Arizona teams of their robots, so I really don't know what to expect when I get there Thursday.

I think the venue must have the cables to get the feed out, NASA webcasted the regional last year (the feed got messed up on Saturday from the weather, but it still happened).

The AZ teams who are on CD: do any of you have (or plan to have) autonomous modes for the Regional? It seems like every year auto is really boring at the regional with relatively few teams ever attempting it.

[MrForbes]

1726 has parts of autonomous working...but not the whole thing...hopefully Kevin will get it sorted out by Saturday!

by the time it went in the crate, it could drive forward and stop, all by itself.

[Ken Loyd]

Team #39 was very close to having the camera programed for the middle spider legs when we shipped the robot. We hope to finish the process at the Arizona Regional. It should be working by Las Vegas.

Ken

[mormannoob]

http://robotics.arc.nasa.gov/events/...onals_2007.php

we arent listed yet

whats the deal

[Donut]

Originally Posted by mormannoob

http://robotics.arc.nasa.gov/events/...onals_2007.php

we arent listed yet

whats the deal

NASA only lists Regionals they know are being webcasted. New Jersey wasn't up there until they got the stream working on Thursday, for example.

I hope you guys can get autonomous working! If you need help (especially with the camera), stop by our pit and ask for me (Andrew). So far we've gotten autonomous turning to and driving a distance from the light, and we've got our arm moving automatically with pots. We would like to use the encoder and gyro for additional turns/drives, but if not we can at least get the arms facing our side of the field.

Regional is tommorow, I can't think about anything else.

[Don Knight]

Originally Posted by mormannoob

http://robotics.arc.nasa.gov/events/...onals_2007.php

we arent listed yet

whats the deal

Double check now, Arizona Regional Webcast is now listed on the NASA webcast page.

Special thanks goes out to Jeff Seaton and the entire NASA team that made this possible.

By the way the high temperature today was 89. Glad they got the air conditioning working at the venue.

So teams remember next year if you looking for a great place to that get your team out of the cold put "Arizona" on your regional selection list!

[MrForbes]

Originally Posted by Donut

Sounds like AZ will be great again this year! Alot of surprises robot wise, I've seen virtually no pictures from Arizona teams of their robots, so I really don't know what to expect when I get there Thursday.

Nice to meet you today, Donut!

I took pics of almost all the robots today...enjoy....(yeah, I need to get some better pics tomorrow)

http://www.selectric.org/nerds/competitions/2007az/

[Donut]

It's so nice to meet people from ChiefDelphi in person, not something I'm used to.

Hope today turns out well, there were alot of teams missing practice matches yesterday but I think everything should be good for today!