Kansas City Regional - 2010

[Tarzan19]

I know what you mean about them going over the bump, it scares the crap out of me too. They have been doing decent, except one or two that they flipped all the way over.

KC has made its self out to be a really tight competition this year. Really excited to see how it all plays out tommorrow.

[funggiss]

it will be great to see the semi's and finals and who on who's alliance I hope 1625 picks us

[sparrowkc]

Originally Posted by Tarzan19

I know what you mean about them going over the bump, it scares the crap out of me too. They have been doing decent, except one or two that they flipped all the way over...

We flipped during our first two matches because a sensor got unplugged. The problem has been resolved.

We have an autopilot program that reliable finesses our robot over the bump. The gyro sensor that it uses to do this happens to be mounted on a surface that the drive team was picking up the robot by. Our first two matches were played with the gyro unplugged.

We now have a guard around the gyro sensor and are lifting the robot with different surfaces.

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by sparrowkc

We flipped during our first two matches because a sensor got unplugged. The problem has been resolved.

We have an autopilot program that reliable finesses our robot over the bump. The gyro sensor that it uses to do this happens to be mounted on a surface that the drive team was picking up the robot by. Our first two matches were played with the gyro unplugged.

We now have a guard around the gyro sensor and are lifting the robot with different surfaces.

I'm more scared that if you were on my alliance and someone from either side accidentally or intentionally bumped into you, rolling all the way over could happen. Now go out there and prove me wrong.

[jspatz1]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

I'm more scared that if you were on my alliance and someone from either side accidentally or intentionally bumped into you, rolling all the way over could happen. Now go out there and prove me wrong.

The tipping was entirely the result of the unplugged gyro that manages our decent. We have never had that happen before or since. We were stable in many crossings the rest of the tournament. I can't really envision a situation where a bump from another robot could cause it. It was the result of too much speed on the down side of the bump, and another robot would have to be pushing us from behind on the down side of the bump, which would be both difficult and penalized. Any contact from in front of us would only make it less likely. We don't foresee this ever happening again.

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by jspatz1

The tipping was entirely the result of the unplugged gyro that manages our decent. We have never had that happen before or since. We were stable in many crossings the rest of the tournament. I can't really envision a situation where a bump from another robot could cause it. It was the result of too much speed on the down side of the bump, and another robot would have to be pushing us from behind on the down side of the bump, which would be both difficult and penalized. Any contact from in front of us would only make it less likely. We don't foresee this ever happening again.

Good to hear. Excellent job at the event, you guys are going to rock North Star. Way to show how a line of code can fix almost anything

[Bruce Newendorp]

Team 525 Swartdogs would like to thank everyone who organized and volunteered for the Greater Kansas City Regional. It takes a lot of effort to make these events happen and we appreciate the time and energy you put into it.

We also want to thank team 2345 for making us their alliance selection and 931 for joining us. We made a great team and had some exciting matches on Saturday afternoon. The finals matches with 1625, 16, and 2410 were were exciting all the way to the last seconds of the third match.

Thanks to all the teams at the GKC Regional for making this a great event. Everyone should be going home happy as Woodie asked us to do.

[Mr.D]

Congratulations to:
CyberBlue 234 for winning the Entrepreneurship Award
and
TechHounds 868 for winning the Innovation in Control and Website Awards

[Aren_Hill]

Originally Posted by Mr.D

Congratulations to:
CyberBlue 234 for winning the Engineering Excellence Award

We received this award, funnily enough a chunk of the crew was at the practice field still tweaking the bot and was notified later.

I'm quite happy with the turnaround our team had from missing all practice matches and a very rough start friday morning to ending as Finalists by 2 points.

Congrats to the victors, you guys earned it

I'm also proud of everyone on our teams mentality after the finals loss of "what did we learn from this, and how are we going to fix it."
Midwest will be fun, though people may not visually see our robot thursday through a blob of people

(back to school mode for a week bleh)

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by Mr.D

Congratulations to:
CyberBlue 234 for winning the Engineering Excellence Award
and
TechHounds 868 for winning the Innovation Control and Website awards

You mean Entrepreneurship Award for 234.

Congrats all.

[efoote868]

Originally Posted by Mr.D

TechHounds 868 for winning the Innovation Control and Website awards

thank you. Looking forward to competing with you at BMR.

[1986titans]

The KC Star had a picture in the paper Friday from the regional, and said to check online for more. I was surprised to find that they had 173 pictures in one place.... er, make that two galleries.

The regional was also featured on:
FOX4
KMBC