Vote for the Autodesk Inventor award!

[JasJ002]

I don't know exactly how many parts 103 had, but I do know that it was enough to "blue screen crash" a 7 processor super computer when trying to render the full robot (reason why we don't have a full rendered robot)

[Michael Leicht]

Originally Posted by JasJ002

I don't know exactly how many parts 103 had, but I do know that it was enough to "blue screen crash" a 7 processor super computer when trying to render the full robot (reason why we don't have a full rendered robot)

i was talking to rob about this and they were missing 3 bolts, take a look at their camera i heard it is the best.

good luck to the top 5

[Evenstar_342]

JasJ002, crashing a supercomputer can't be fun! I totally sympathize. This picture alone took 15 minutes:

http://academics.tridenttech.edu/tea.../07_robot.html

(BTW, here's our camera, http://academics.tridenttech.edu/tea...n_assembly.jpg
Does 103 have a pic they'd like to post?)

Out of curiosity, is Autodesk going to provide a voting booth at nationals? Has FIRST sent out any info about the voting? From e-mailing teams, it seems most are unaware of the process.

[Dan Zollman]

I'm pretty sure that the voting was only specifically mentioned in a regular Update, when the said that voting would occur on FIRSTbase. Particulars weren't given.

[Michael Leicht]

http://www.cybersonics.org/Cybersoni...mera_mount.jpg


there is the camera.

[Sean Marks]

hey i have a quick question is there an inventor people meeting at Atlanta??
If so when, im very interesting in meeting all the other inventors out there.

[Evenstar_342]

Originally Posted by Sean Marks

hey i have a quick question is there an inventor people meeting at Atlanta??
If so when, im very interesting in meeting all the other inventors out there.

I think on Thursday or Friday afternoon, there's going to be a luncheon hosted by Autodesk for all FIRST students on teams who submitted for the Inventor and Visualization awards. I know I got an e-mail about that from my subteam mentor, you might want to contact yours.

[Dan Zollman]

Originally Posted by Evenstar_342

I think on Thursday or Friday afternoon, there's going to be a luncheon hosted by Autodesk for all FIRST students on teams who submitted for the Inventor and Visualization awards. I know I got an e-mail about that from my subteam mentor, you might want to contact yours.

Isn't that just for the 5 finalists for each award?

[Evenstar_342]

Uh, check with Autodesk? As a college student all I saw was "free lunch" and said, sure I'll go!

[mrs. z]

The luncheon is by invitation only for the 5 finalist teams.

Mrs. Z.

[Evenstar_342]

Why don't Inventor students get together Thursday? Maybe in the afternoon, on one of the outside halls and then we can either go outside in one of the park areas, or stay in one of the upstairs halls?

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by JasJ002

I don't know exactly how many parts 103 had, but I do know that it was enough to "blue screen crash" a 7 processor super computer when trying to render the full robot (reason why we don't have a full rendered robot)

Is the Inventor Studio rendering process multithreaded? Because if it isn't, will only take advantage of one processor at a time (for the main thread, which usually does all of the work).

I wonder how the award judges balance super-detailed entries (which can take several minutes to load, and several seconds to redraw), with the ones that are highly accurate in terms of constraints, dimensions and parametrization, but which omit high-overhead/low-return details like gear teeth or IC legs.

[Evenstar_342]

What can YOU do to be more involved in FIRST?

VOTE!!!

Register with your team password at:

www.autodesk.com/firstbase

and vote for the Autodesk Inventor entry of your choice.

Tell all your fellow FIRST students, don't let our competition go unnoticed.

Good luck to all of the top 5!!!!