2009 IRI- Who has applied?

[Travis Hoffman]

Although the information is usually duplicated on the IRI website, a reminder to all invitees to check your spam email filters for IRI communications - our invite email was devoured by my work spam filter.

[dwaynetrip3119]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

Congratulations to your team, Dwayne. It has been fun but also knuckle-biting, reading your excited and anxious posts. Good luck at IRI!

Jane

Thanks! Ive been sitting here in class just waiting for the announcement. Since we were not able to pay for atl in time, we really wanted to compete at IRI to really show what we are made of and show how gracious our team is toward others and more. I gave it all i had in that application and it turned out to be a winner!!

[Andy Baker]

Here is what is being sent out to the teams:

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We have invited 82 teams to the 2009 Indiana Robotics Invitational. Below are the teams, in team number order. Please doublecheck the list for your team number. The first 72 teams to complete the registration process and send payment will be accepted. The IRI invitation acceptance form will be avalable online at 11:59pm on May 12. If there are several invitation acceptances completed on the same day, the field may be expanded slightly above 72.

Please mail your check to: **Note this is a different name than 2008**

Indiana Robotics Invitational
Attn: Lloyd Gough
Perry Meridian High School
401 West Meridian School Road
Indianapolis, IN 46217

Checks should made payable to Perry Meridian High School
Credit cards will NOT be accepted

16 Bomb Squad
27 Team RUSH
33 Killer Bees
39 The 39th Aero Squadron
45 TechnoKats
47 Chief Delphi
48 Delphi E.L.I.T.E.
67 Heroes of Tomorrow
68 Truck Town Thunder
70 More Martians
71 Team Hammond
79 Krunch
101 Striker
107 Team R.O.B.O.T.I.C.S
111 Wildstang
116 Epsilon Delta
118 The Robonauts
135 Black Knights
148 Robowranglers
179 Children of the Swamp
217 ThunderChickens
222 Tigertrons
233 The Pink Team
234 Cyber Blue
245 Adambots
254 The Cheesy Poofs
269 CooneyTech Robotics
292 PantherTech
330 Beach Bots
341 Miss Daisy
365 Miracle Workerz/MOE
393 Full Metal Jackets
399 Eagle Robotics
447 Team Roboto
461 Westside Boiler Invasion
469 Las Guerrillas
503 Frog Force
829 The Digital Goats
830 Rat Pack
832 Chimera
868 TechHOUNDS
888 Robotiators
910 The Foley Freeze
973 Greyhound Robotics
980 ThunderBots
1000 Cybearcats
1008 Team Lugnut
1018 RoboDevils
1024 Kil-A-Bytes
1038 Thunderhawks
1108 Panther Robotics
1114 Simbotics
1155 Sciborgs
1327 SBotz
1501 Team THRUST
1503 Spartonics
1507 Warlocks
1529 CyberCards
1538 The Holy Cows
1622 Team Spyder
1625 Winnovation
1646 Boiler Precision Guessworks
1649 EMS
1675 Ultimate Protection Squad
1714 More Robotics
1720 PhyXTGears
1741 Red Alert Robotics
1747 HBR
1760 Robo-Titans
1771 North Gwinnett Robotics
1884 The Griffins
1902 Exploding Bacon
1923 The MidKnight Inventors
2039 Rockford Robotics
2056 OP Robotics
2194 Fondy Fire
2199 Robo-Lions
2753 Team Overdrive
2775 Liberty-DeWALT Robotics
2826 Wave Robotics
2970 eSchool eBots
3119 The Rockets


Please contact us if you have any questions at pc-at-indianaroboticsinvitational.org.


Thank you,
IRI Planning Committee

[robodude03]

All right, we made it in! I am really looking forward to this since this will be our first time.

[Libby K]

1923 is looking forward to the IRI. I've gone, personally, every year, but this is the first time for the team. Can't wait!

[Magnechu]

Predictions, go.

[Meredith Novak]

Originally Posted by Greg Needel

2775 is converting our practice bot to a co-axial swerve drive. Based on testing at our site and pending acceptance to IRI, we will decide which one to bring.

So you weren't kidding when you said there was not much to do in Jackson...let us know when you start running "simulation mode."

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[dwaynetrip3119]

im so nervous!!!! only a few days to go to they announce. If we do get invited though, I hope that we go with a design that was idealized by a close friend of 3119.

[Collin Fultz]

Originally Posted by Andy Baker

Sure!

Here is the list of applied teams, as of yesterday (May 7th):

...

Of that list only 56 of those teams were on the initial invite list last year. I'm not sure of those who were on the wait list ended up coming.

[VEN]

Hey, can someone tell me when IRI is?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by VEN

Hey, can someone tell me when IRI is?

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/event/countdown? says it's 7/31-8/1.

[VEN]

Awesome, thanks! I looked around but couldn't find it.

[OZ_341]

This message is for any mentors, volunteers, or chaperoned students that may be traveling to IRI from Eastern PA, NJ, NY, MD or DE.

Teams 341 and 365 are sharing a 47 passenger coach bus to IRI and we have about 5 or 6 seats left. If you want to join us, the cost is about $85 round trip. The bus will leave on July 30th at 5 AM from Ambler, PA and return by the early evening on August 2nd. (Ambler is about 30 minutes north of Philadelphia)

If you are interested, please send me a PM.

Thanks!

Al Ostrow

[Chris is me]

1714's been playing with our robot a lot at demos and stuff, and we're making some changes for IRI. Since we're such a highly anticipated team and all But we have a little of a dilemma.

We have a Long Range Mode now for firing the Empty Cell 6 feet away, so we don't leave ourselves vulnerable for a pin by slamming against the Fueling Station. (We could take off a transmission on a CIM and go 12, but then we overshoot on dumps)

Removing the camera will let us hold 1-2 more balls, so we're doing that as like many other teams we never actually used it. We now have a human loading autonomous bringing us from an initial load of 7 balls to 12, and it's fast enough that we can sometimes snag and hold a robot down with it (and hey, balls in the trailer of the opponent by the HP are just as many points as if they were in our robot, right?).

The tricky part for us is figuring out how to increase the capacity of our robot even further, in under 6 pounds. The rough idea being thrown around was to make the front "diverter" bay wider, but to do that we'd have to use another motor to make a magic ball unjammer (not too big a deal if we can design it) and cut off signatures by Dean Kamen and Woodie Flowers (much bigger deal, but at least Dave Lavery's is safe! ).

What changes are you expecting to see robots make at IRI? What are you making? and do you have any advice for us if you know our robot? (personally I bet more than half the teams will autoload)

[Raumiester2010]

We auto load

we haven't made many changes in our system, just sped everything up so we can be even more lethal.

it is also fun to look at the team listings too to see who is represented, Michigan is represented well just glancing, i managed to count at least 12 MI teams. that is 1/6 the field coming from the Great Lakes State ^-^