Dallas regional 2010

[LLM]

1108 is anxious to head south! Bus departs 5AM wednesday! Our bot, Scherman, is pictured on our website, pantherrobotics.com, and I will ask one of the team to post a pic here tomorrow if I can make it into the shop. We are looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones! Come by the pit if you have a free minute. Yes, I know....what IS a free minute??!

[JaneYoung]

Just got word that 418 passed inspection and is in the queue. How's everyone else doing?

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

Just got word that 418 passed inspection and is in the queue. How's everyone else doing?

*mock horror* 2:30 and they just now passed inspection? Well I hope they're a little more prompt than that at Lone Star. I'm kinda counting on them and a few other vets to breeze through and leave my afternoon open for all the rookies....

[JaneYoung]

Hi Kevin,
Not sure when they passed, actually.

I'm in Austin and won't be making the trip. Every so often, I'll brave contacting them (at the risk of grumbles), to see how they're doing.

We'll do our best for you at Lone Star.

Jane

[JVN]

Our "fixit" crew reported helping 35 different teams pass inspection. 148 was out in full force today helping some of the more inexperienced Texas teams hit the ground running.

Everyone is looking forward to tomorrow.

-John

[Justin Montois]

Originally Posted by JVN

Our "fixit" crew reported helping 35 different teams pass inspection. 148 was out in full force today helping some of the more inexperienced Texas teams hit the ground running.

Everyone is looking forward to tomorrow.

-John

You guys are an inspiration. Can't wait to watch this weekend, good luck!

[Danny Diaz]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

*mock horror* 2:30 and they just now passed inspection?

Nah, we replaced several systems on our robot (from the 65lb allotment) and got through technical inspection easily in the first try fairly early in the day (it was very simple). We spent most of our time afterwards with bad encryption on our radio (updated with the wrong type of encryption for the event) and we had a lot of trouble connecting with the FMS. After several reboots of our Driver Station PC we got things moving, and we've been working through gremlins in the 65lb allotment parts... can't have our modifications (cake) and use (eat) them (it) too, now can we?!?!

Eh, we expect to have a great Friday no matter what! Of course, our head coach Bertucci is sick as a dog in the hotel room, so we're doing as well as we can with just a code/electronics mentor at the helm (me).

-Danny

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Danny Diaz

Of course, our head coach Bertucci is sick as a dog in the hotel room, so we're doing as well as we can with just a code/electronics mentor at the helm (me).

-Danny

You'll be fine.
Bertucci isn't supposed to get sick until - after - the regional. He's early. Rock on 418.

[JaneYoung]

Webcast is shut down. Lunch break? Anyone know?

Thank you for the webcast, it is awesome!

Jane

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

Webcast is shut down. Lunch break? Anyone know?

Thank you for the webcast, it is awesome!

Jane

I would believe so, it is 1PM and it is a waste of disk space to be recording the powerpoint.

[Ricky Q.]

Just went into lunch here.

[Ricky Q.]

Rolling along here through the afternoon.

Webcast is on here: http://dallasfirstvideo.com/

Ricky

[Pjohn1959]

148 is truly a beast! It is amazing to watch it in action, standing right next to the field.

Undefeated today, and I don't see any way to stop them.

[JohnSchneider]

We over at 3310 are having a BLAST at regional. Being a rookie team, we've been making all the rookie mistakes (Not checking all our power cords, no mounting the bridge all the way, and forgetting about that stupid autonomous code that comes stock on the robot)

By round 6 we were all fixed up, everything worked, and we showed what we could do. DEFENSE. I don't know how many people actually scout rookie teams, but we're extremely large. Even when we flipped over we were still blocking the other team. With three more rounds to go, we home to show that our incline, and kicker also do as they should and hope to show everyone that we can play some "D".

Come stop bye and say hi tomorrow, were the big wedge shaped robot with the "H" on the hood. We love chatting with veteran teams, and really hope to show that now (Since were all fixed up) we can actually play this game competitively.

GOOD LUCK!

[ttldomination]

Originally Posted by animenerdjohn

We over at 3310 are having a BLAST at regional. Being a rookie team, we've been making all the rookie mistakes (Not checking all our power cords, no mounting the bridge all the way, and forgetting about that stupid autonomous code that comes stock on the robot)

By round 6 we were all fixed up, everything worked, and we showed what we could do. DEFENSE. I don't know how many people actually scout rookie teams, but we're extremely large. Even when we flipped over we were still blocking the other team. With three more rounds to go, we home to show that our incline, and kicker also do as they should and hope to show everyone that we can play some "D".

Come stop bye and say hi tomorrow, were the big wedge shaped robot with the "H" on the hood. We love chatting with veteran teams, and really hope to show that now (Since were all fixed up) we can actually play this game competitively.

GOOD LUCK!

Let me tell ya, you guys have the perfect makings of a second pick.

Not to mention yall's enthusiasm and positive are definitely things that can be helpful on an alliance.