2008 Las Vegas Regional

[BornaE]

Only 2 days left .................................................. .................
1 more school day

[falconmaster]

We are going to be there! Can't wait! We have a three line autonomous, We have a shooter and ball remover, have greatly improved the performance. We really want to be with 60 and 39. With us three, I don't think that we will be easy to beat at all. Both these teams have inspired us to make modifications that are working well.

[AdamHeard]

973 used the fixit window's nicely, made some vast improvements.

Also, anyone running sundial?

[Guy Davidson]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

Also, anyone running sundial?

It seems that FIRST has been requesting people to not run Sundial due to concerns about field interruption. See: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...7&postcount=77

[KF987]

Some of the team members and i will be heading down to the Thomas & Mack soon to help set up the event. FIRST only provided a 27ft roll of carpet for the practice field so we are bring a 50ft roll down for all of the teams to use, unfortunatley it is not the same material as the playing field... we figured it would help teams out more to have a 50ft run instead of a 27ft run...
See you all tomorrow!
Good luck to all
-Keaton

[MrForbes]

If you can get some walls up around that carpet and a center divider, I'm sure many teams will thank you! Sure would have helped us do hybrid programming if we had had it at AZ or LA

[KF987]

Originally Posted by squirrel

If you can get some walls up around that carpet and a center divider, I'm sure many teams will thank you! Sure would have helped us do hybrid programming if we had had it at AZ or LA

The good news is that we were able to find a piece of competition carpet longer than 27ft for practice... but there is not center divider. We just got home from setting up the field... man that's a chore... when we left the FTA guys were doing a systems check on the scoring program and driver station walls. Everything is set up and ready to go tomorrow! This will be an awsome regional...

Oo the competiton carpet is brand new as well we pulled it right out of the plastic...

-Keaton

[Guy Davidson]

Originally Posted by KF987

The good news is that we were able to find a piece of competition carpet longer than 27ft for practice... but there is not center divider. We just got home from setting up the field... man that's a chore... when we left the FTA guys were doing a systems check on the scoring program and driver station walls. Everything is set up and ready to go tomorrow! This will be an awsome regional...

Oo the competiton carpet is brand new as well we pulled it right out of the plastic...

-Keaton

Awesome, we get to brake in some new carpet

Maybe we can set something up as somewhat of a center divider? Two poles with some tape between them or something similar could give a similar effect and help us out.

[987HighRoller]

There is only a stretch of carpet leading up to an overpass and about six feet of carpet after the overpass. The carpet is only as wide as the half of the overpass, so a robot could only cross the first line while testing hyrbrid.

[Guy Davidson]

Ahh. Thanks, good to know.

Can't wait to see everyone tomorrow! Vegas is gonna be awesome.

[CzarValvador]

Hm, I am interested in this one.

[ChrisH]

Originally Posted by sumadin

It seems that FIRST has been requesting people to not run Sundial due to concerns about field interruption. See: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...7&postcount=77

Actually that isn't quite true. Sundial can run connected to the Field Management System, in which case it automatically picks up the start of a match. It can also run without being connected, but the match starts and team pairings have to be input manually.

FTAs were asked not to allow Sundial to be connected to the network that runs the FMS. If some team wants to set up their own wireless network for other teams to use and input the match schedules themselves, that is OK.

The concern was for potential interference between Sundial and the FMS and lack of time/resources to verify compatibility. FMS is hard wired so wireless networks nearby should not be an issue.

In Los Angeles Team 1138 was running Sundial on a local wireless network. I had Sundial displayed on an isolated laptop on the Scoring table to help with time management. It helped the Announcer to see how far off we were and to predict an end time to help with other festivities, alliance picking, etc.