JVN Challenge: Record your Season!

[czeke]

John, Team 1091, will happily take you up on the challenge, as best we can, and would like to share it publicly. Isn't this the meaning of gracious professionalism ? Since we are far from being a powerhouse team, and with limited resources, the best we can contribute is our student's and mentor's ideas and opinions. Due to an extremely limited time allowance, in our school's tech-ed department, we're leaning towards using bamboo, which is lightweight and easily machinable, for our chassis and whatever mechanism we need to build.

[Chris is me]

Way ahead of you.

In all seriousness, thanks for doing such a cool project in 2010; your whitepaper definitely inspired me and Shaker Robotics.

[synth3tk]

We're in. As soon as I renew our domain, I'll get a blog up-and-running.

[Joe G.]

The level to which I will be working with my team(s) is completely up in the air at this point, and could range from more than ever to none at all this year. But if I am significantly involved, I will certainly take a shot at this.

[Brandon Holley]

I will commit to doing this on behalf of team 125.

I'll update this post with where the best place to follow it will be. Most likely it will be via the nutrons twitter (@nutrons) and my own (@brandonholley).

-Brando

[AdamHeard]

973 is in.

[Zholl]

does it have to be a mentor? I was already planning on setting up something to this effect with our website, so would I have to have a mentor do it or can I

[Ian Curtis]

I know people will probably want to to this their own way, but would it be possible to have a "Build Log" subforum, where teams could keep their logs? This would keep some of them all in one place. Some other technical forums have similar forums that keep the build logs in one place, like this.

Looking forward to reading them!

[Billfred]

I'm down.

[thefro526]

Another reason to use Wordpress?

816 is in.

[lynca]

The DiscoBots are all about video logs. We have always kept a weekly media log ( http://2010.discobots.org/node/16 ). We will take the JVN challenge and move up to daily twitter updates this year.

http://twitter.com/discobots

[JesseK]

I'm in, though there will probably be some rants and ravings about my grad class sprinkled in as well. I wound up pulling a A- in the hardest math class I've ever taken, yet this coming math class (non-linear programming) is [scary math]^2.

[SavtaKenneth]

I'll bring this up in my team. Worst case scenario I'll document the season and upload it afterwards.

[BrendanRadabaug]

i try to take pictures of the build process robot wise and then post them all to facebook. this year was kind of tough, we worked at Lockheed and they did not like the idea of me taking photos with my iphone in the building and posting them. thus no public record of this years build unless we were off property. we try to get the students to blog, some have, most dont have the time when they are face first in to the robot.

[BigJ]

On page 15/55 of Jim's journal and really liking it. I like the glimpses of the control systems development.

If I am still with my team next year I am going to attempt to do a control systems side-of-things season journal, which with our team usually lasts long after build season