FIRST Robots: Behind the Design - Lunacy

[sloteera]

Cephatron did for this year a little book contenting all informations about our robot.

We gave this book for the judges and for some teams in LA regional.
At the moment, I haven't it in .pdf, but I'm trying to contact the responsable by your edition in order to achieve an .pdf file of it.

I took a picture of the book and as soon as possible I will post all content.

The pic is attached!

[sloteera]

At the moment, the list of teams that won awards related to the robot is below:
Of these teams, which would like to provide their information's robot?

BAE Granite State:

Imagery : #175
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control: #166
Xerox Creativity: #811
Delphi Driving Tomorrows: #1073
General Motors Industrial Design: #121
Motorola Quality #20

Buckeye

Imagery : #63
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control: #2051
Xerox Creativity: #1787
Delphi Driving Tomorrows: #2399
General Motors Industrial Design: #1038
Motorola Quality #1319

Greater Kansas City

Imagery : #1986
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control: #1764
Xerox Creativity: #1108
Delphi Driving Tomorrows: #1448
General Motors Industrial Design: #1806
Motorola Quality #935

Midwest

Imagery : #1024
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control: #217
Xerox Creativity: #2358
Delphi Driving Tomorrows: #1732
General Motors Industrial Design: #1114
Motorola Quality #111

New Jersey

Imagery : #816
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control: #41
Xerox Creativity: #708
Delphi Driving Tomorrows: #293
General Motors Industrial Design: #1218
Motorola Quality #422

Oklahoma

Imagery : #2352
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control: #1742
Xerox Creativity: #2354
Delphi Driving Tomorrows: #2165
General Motors Industrial Design: #1742
Motorola Quality #2773

Washington DC

Imagery : #2068
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control: #234
Xerox Creativity: #1731
Delphi Driving Tomorrows: #339
General Motors Industrial Design: #45
Motorola Quality #118

Boston

Imagery : #155
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control: #157
Xerox Creativity: #2079
Delphi Driving Tomorrows: #125
General Motors Industrial Design: #190
Motorola Quality #1153

Finger Lakes

Imagery : #522
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control: #188
Xerox Creativity: #378
Delphi Driving Tomorrows: #174
General Motors Industrial Design: #1507
Motorola Quality #610

Oregon

Imagery : #2517
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control: #192
Xerox Creativity: #2046
Delphi Driving Tomorrows: #1983
General Motors Industrial Design: #2471
Motorola Quality #2122

San Diego

Imagery : #2029
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control: #1011
Xerox Creativity: #1527
Delphi Driving Tomorrows: #1388
General Motors Industrial Design: #968
Motorola Quality #1622


New York City

Imagery : #354
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control: #1155
Xerox Creativity: #271
Delphi Driving Tomorrows: #237
General Motors Industrial Design: #2753
Motorola Quality #56

Dallas

Imagery : #2352
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control: #1817
Xerox Creativity: #2468
Delphi Driving Tomorrows: #476
General Motors Industrial Design: #704
Motorola Quality #148

Florida

Imagery : #1885
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control: #1557
Xerox Creativity: #2425
Delphi Driving Tomorrows: #25
General Motors Industrial Design: #1144
Motorola Quality #79

Los Angeles

Imagery : #399
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control: #1860
Xerox Cretivity: #1388
Delphi Driving Tomorrows: #1726
General Motors Industrial Design: #1717
Motorola Quality #207

Peachtree

Imagery : #900
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control: #1771
Xerox Cretivity: #343
Delphi Driving Tomorrows: #1746
General Motors Industrial Design: #342
Motorola Quality #1319

Pittsburgh

Imagery : #379
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control: #2614
Xerox Cretivity: #1629
Delphi Driving Tomorrows: #1218
General Motors Industrial Design: #2399
Motorola Quality #291

Silicon Valley

Imagery : #1280
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control: #1458
Xerox Cretivity: #1700
Delphi Driving Tomorrows: #604
General Motors Industrial Design: #192
Motorola Quality #254

Wisconsin

Imagery : #2116
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control: #269
Xerox Cretivity: #1024
Delphi Driving Tomorrows: #141
General Motors Industrial Design: #2970
Motorola Quality #2062

[basicxman]

I have tons of time, have written with SERVO Magazine (and have contacts in there still!) and know how to put up a website. We could organize a team and start the Behind The Design project all up again, eBook style (or maybe even write summaries for an article or two in SERVO Magazine).

[Eric O]

Originally Posted by basicxman

I have tons of time, have written with SERVO Magazine (and have contacts in there still!) and know how to put up a website. We could organize a team and start the Behind The Design project all up again, eBook style (or maybe even write summaries for an article or two in SERVO Magazine).

Your magazine comments lead me to this. I think this could work best for a magazine to pick up the publication. Every month there would be a FIRST Robot featured, with a write up similar to the way the book was done. For the magazine, you would have a bunch of FIRSTers subscribing to see who the next robot would be, and for FIRST it would be promoting the program to technical professionals that receive the magazine. Seems like a win win to me.

The question is, which magazine would be best?

[gorrilla]

Originally Posted by Eric O

Your magazine comments lead me to this. I think this could work best for a magazine to pick up the publication. Every month there would be a FIRST Robot featured, with a write up similar to the way the book was done. For the magazine, you would have a bunch of FIRSTers subscribing to see who the next robot would be, and for FIRST it would be promoting the program to technical professionals that receive the magazine. Seems like a win win to me.

The question is, which magazine would be best?

popular mechanics...
has done a couple of articles featuring FIRST robots....

[Greg Peshek]

Originally Posted by Eric O

Your magazine comments lead me to this. I think this could work best for a magazine to pick up the publication. Every month there would be a FIRST Robot featured, with a write up similar to the way the book was done. For the magazine, you would have a bunch of FIRSTers subscribing to see who the next robot would be, and for FIRST it would be promoting the program to technical professionals that receive the magazine. Seems like a win win to me.

The question is, which magazine would be best?

SERVO has done a few articles on FIRST robots.. back after the 07 championship I believe they did a feature article on 190? Or one of the championship teams that year. Robot is also a good magazine.. but it only comes out bi-monthly. Personally I like SERVO more and think there is a bigger base there.

[ATannahill]

Team 79 would be happy to tell about our robot if we can get something worked out.

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by Eric O

Your magazine comments lead me to this. I think this could work best for a magazine to pick up the publication. Every month there would be a FIRST Robot featured, with a write up similar to the way the book was done. For the magazine, you would have a bunch of FIRSTers subscribing to see who the next robot would be, and for FIRST it would be promoting the program to technical professionals that receive the magazine. Seems like a win win to me.

The question is, which magazine would be best?

That sounds like a great idea. I'd guess Robot or SERVO would be a good start.

Who knows, maybe if Robot starts getting enough material they can switch to a monthly publication?

[ChristinaR]

There's always the possibility to look into print-to-order services, like Lulu or Xlibris. I'm not very familiar with them, but if a couple people could design a book and get all the teams involved, those who are interested could purchase it online. No idea on things like prices, though. Also, any money made could be donated.

[sloteera]

I think that, the most important at the moment would be the effort of each team in contribute with their content's robot.
Would be nice if we build an model of how each team should post your content?

[robodude03]

I would definitely like to help out in this project. What if we had an online article featuring a robot every week? We could have our own place online that would serve as a hub for information regarding team robots. I would gladly help in purchasing web space and help develop an online community for showcasing robots and the latest in FIRST technology. What do you guys think?