Kettering Results from Week 2

[R3P0]

Originally Posted by Tom Line

As a follow up to my first post:

On the practice field, there was a single 110 extension cord and no splitter. So only one team could use the field at a time (no DS power) until we supplied our own 4 way splitter for people to use. Might want to consider a powerstrip there fastened to the extension cord so people can utilize the field a bit more.

We are going to fix that by bringing our test battery and an inverter with our robot cart.

Also the Allen Bradley yellow light does not allow spectators to know which color (side red or blue) the robots are on. VERy hard to keep them straight when viewing. Even worse trying to sort it out on the webcast.

Props to the Safety glasses people. #1 best effort ever I have seen in First in % years of going to competitions. Should be a model for all other first competitions.

Props to teams 1025 and 910 great alliance partners

noise in arena areas=.failCurrent Path: /

- by the end of friday the music, announcer, and pit announcer were very loud and made communication very difficult in pits. ( SAFETY hazard).
- speakers for pits should be on stands on ground, with treble normalized for surroundings This allows the voice to travel over the heads of people in pits. Teh sound was bouncing off floor and cieling and back further making hearing in pits almost impossibe. To note is as volume rises so do peoples voices etc further leading to louder everything.

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by R3P0

Also the Allen Bradley yellow light does not allow spectators to know which color (side red or blue) the robots are on. VERy hard to keep them straight when viewing. Even worse trying to sort it out on the webcast.

Slightly off-topic, but that's what the trailer is for. Look at the color of the bumpers on the trailer to identify which alliance a robot is on.