2007 Arizona Regional

[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.

[s_forbes]

Originally Posted by Donut

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.

Can't wait to see it!


I can get out of my thursday and friday classes this week, so I will be attending the whole regional (yes!). It looks to be awesome, I can't wait!

[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!

[MrForbes]

Originally Posted by Donut

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

here's your new avatar picture

[Donut]

Originally Posted by squirrel

here's your new avatar picture

Yay for meeting people on CD in person!

I'll put it up tommorow or Sunday, I just need time to relax for now.

[s_forbes]

Arizona was awesome! Congratulations to teams 39, 60, and 1013! It was fun to go against you guys in the finals, and I think you definately deserved the win. It was great to see team 60 get their robot up and running on the last day to become the first pick for alliances.

I think our team did extremely well and learned a lot about the game this year. Watch out Davis, expect to see an even faster and more reliable scorer coming to your regional.

[Ken Loyd]

Originally Posted by s_forbes

Arizona was awesome! Congratulations to teams 39, 60, and 1013! It was fun to go against you guys in the finals, and I think you definately deserved the win. It was great to see team 60 get their robot up and running on the last day to become the first pick for alliances.

I think our team did extremely well and learned a lot about the game this year. Watch out Davis, expect to see an even faster and more reliable scorer coming to your regional.

For what it is worth...you were our first choice until the next to last qualifying match. You are a "CLASS ACT" from robot to students to mentors! Thank you for the kind words about our robot. Luck was on our side yesterday. I worried most about facing you guys.

I don't think...I know...your robot did extremely well in Phoenix. You will do well in Davis.

Ken