Robots: Behind the Design Who is submitting?

[Vogel648]

We will be submitting for the Innovation in Control award

[Dan Zollman]

I don't know if we'll have time to put together a submission.

Originally Posted by bcieslak

You mean their going make $39 a book after they charge us six grand or more to take part in the competition?

Why not give us free food at competitions? Why not put $39 more in materials in the kit? Why not make Championship free?

There is nothing wrong with selling a book.

Originally Posted by bcieslak

Magazines like SERVO and ROBOT are always looking for good robotics articles and will actually pay you very well if they like what you submitted.

Check out their websites for author guidelines.

Why give all your hard work away for free? Think twice before signing away your publishing rights.

This book will provide publicity to more teams. Perhaps more teams will see the book than see the magazine, or this book will reach a different audience. It would be nice to have a section about our robot in a nice, hardcover book after we put so much work into the robot. Why not make a submission for the book AND write an article for a magazine?

[MGoelz]

We will be submitting for the GM Industrial Design Award.

[=Martin=Taylor=]

We're putting together a submission for our "sucker," which won the General Motors Industrial Design award. We've got about half of it done, and that’s on top of all the other stuff we're doing. Hopefully it will be done by tomorrow...

If it isn't done in time we'll just edit some things and put in our submission for the Motorola Quality Award - which we also won with the "sucker"

Originally Posted by bcieslak

You mean their going make $39 a book after they charge us six grand or more to take part in the competition?

Magazines like SERVO and ROBOT are always looking for good robotics articles and will actually pay you very well if they like what you submitted.

Check out their websites for author guidelines.

Why give all your hard work away for free? Think twice before signing away your publishing rights.


BC
Autoflex Artilce Mar 2006 Servo

I believe Twain once said something about books winding up on shelves...
and magazines on the bottom of bird cages...

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Does anyone know how to find out the resolution of an image? I'm using The GIMP if that helps any.

[Alan8or]

Originally Posted by Budda648

Does anyone know how to find out the resolution of an image? I'm using The GIMP if that helps any.

I'm not sure if this is helpful, but if you go to Image -> Scale Image, it has X and Y resolutions. Other than that, I don't know.

Anyways, 418 plans to submit for their Innovation in Control Award at LSR. At least, I think that's the plan.

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Alan8or

Anyways, 418 plans to submit for their Innovation in Control Award at LSR. At least, I think that's the plan.

That's the plan, you guys just have to get it done.

[RoboMom]

Could somebody please post the links to the information for these submissions for THIS year-2007? (Not for the 2006 year).

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by RoboMom

Could somebody please post the links to the information for these submissions for THIS year-2007? (Not for the 2006 year).

http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedFiles..._Published.pdf

[Storcky]

Team 1629 finished their submission for the Innovation in Control Award after 4 hours the night before it was due.

Just out of curiosity
Which teams who were in the book last year are elligible again this year?

[Kristian Calhoun]

Originally Posted by Storcky

Just out of curiosity
Which teams who were in the book last year are elligible again this year?

The teams in bold are those that qualify again this year.

16
25
33
86
100
111
121
123
141
190
191
207
225
237
293
294
322
330
357
384
418
467
494
694
1024
1114
1319
1501
1510
1629

Edit: The team information on FIRST's website has not been update for every team. If your team hasn't been bolded, and qualifies to be in the book again, send me a quick message, and I'll make the correction.

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by Kristian Calhoun

The teams in bold are those that qualify again this year.

190 qualified as well with the Motorola Quality Award.

[Kristian Calhoun]

Originally Posted by Nuttyman54

190 qualified as well with the Motorola Quality Award.

Oops! Sorry about that - I began checking for the awards by going through the team information supplied by FIRST (which doesn't list the award) and then halfway through began checking the data against 1114's scouting database, and must have missed it.

[DanDon]

Team 375 was eligible to submit last year, we didn't, however we are eligibible again this year, a few times over actually. We will be submitting under our Championship Delphi Driving Tomorrow's Technology award.

[Ben Martin]

We won the Motorola Quality Award at the Championship, so we'll be submitting an entry for that award as well.