Newton 2012!

[1629GaCo]

1629 GaCO would love to shoot hoops with all of these teams!!!! Good luck to everyone, see ya next week!

[Peyton Yeung]

Team 45 Technokats would love to rumble with all the great teams in this division

wide base (37" not including bumpers)
6 wheel center drop with 6' colson wheels
AM SuperShifters
bridge lowering arm (lowers and raises from the front and sides)
Firing range of ~50' using 2 recurve bow limbs
Can shoot 2 points from the fender at about 95%
Can shoot from far side of the field and score
Front and back ball pickup
Triple balanced 3 times in the elims of Queen City

[eaglesfan51520]

Should be a great division! I am very excited to compete against all these great teams!

[Debbie]

BX 1023 is anxious to play with old friends and meet new friends! Glad we get to play with MOE - Your team was a huge factor in influencing our FLL kids to start an FRC team many years ago at Disney! Very excited for next week! Good luck Newton!

[loyal]

Team 4055 is pumped for getting to play in the big league with such great robots and show off some rookie team spirit!

[z_beeblebrox]

4183 Bit Buckets is excited to be there and see the other awesome teams. (Especially you, 842) Hopefully we'll learn a lot at our first Championships.

[tylerobot]

The Power Hawks are excited to be part of Newton this year!

Hopefully we will be able to form an alliance of 11 (MORT), 111 (WildStang), and 1111 (Power Hawks). How cool would that be?!?!

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Originally Posted by tylerobot

Hopefully we will be able to form an alliance of 11 (MORT), 111 (WildStang), and 1111 (Power Hawks).

That would really confuse the opposition wouldn't it? A sea of 1111111111's.

[JakeD]

Originally Posted by princessnatalie

Team 2471 Mean Machine is looking foward to playing with many of our PNW Friends, 360, 488, 1983, 1540, 2517, 4043 and 4089 (:

Oh and Kirstie and Natalie are excited to meet you Justin ;D

I have to include Team Tators (2122) in the PNW too. Looking at the OPR data 4 of the top 12 are PNW teams.

#3 1983
#5 2122
#11 488
#12 1540

Can't wait to see the scores any of these teams together can put up. Add in 469, 1717, plus the fact that the entire Division OPR average is a point and a half higher then any other division and there will be lots of baskets being scored.

[falconmaster]

Ok Lets roll! Its nice to finally find out who is in Newton!

Just like to add here that Newton also has something the other divisions do not have. Some one in Time's Top 100 most influential people in the world! She will be attending the championships!

http://www.time.com/time/specials/pa...112161,00.html

[JV2073]

Good luck to all the teams in the Newton Divison.
-JV (2073)

[Grim Tuesday]

The pit map is out! Let's just say that Newton is closest to the bathrooms.

[Bjenks548]

Where did you find the pit map?

[vikesrock777]

Originally Posted by Bjenks548

Where did you find the pit map?

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...hreadid=105928

From what other people have been saying, it's only been released on the app, but has been posed in that forum for convenience.

[Ken Streeter]

Team 1519 (Mechanical Mayhem, from Milford, New Hampshire) Robot Info:

• Wide orientation robot
• Drive: 8 WD, 6" Pneumatic Wheels (extremely grippy on bridge and carpet)
• 2-speed transmissions; very low gear (~2fps) for fine control on bridge
  
• Bridge Balance Assist: no specific mechanism; however, we designed our entire robot to optimize balancing. Can hang end wheels off of bridge with exceptional stability (see video below) so that only 17.5" of our frame is over the bridge surface. As seen in the video, extremely low gearing effectively serves as a drivetrain brake.
• Bridge Balancing Experience: Don't just take our word for it -- see 1114's scouting database which lists us as the #1 balancer at both GSR and NCR. Performed more co-opitition balances at both regionals (GSR and NCR) than any other team there. Fast double-balances in all of our elimination matches (except GSR finals where robot failure took our partner away!)
• Bridge Tipper: tip down on one side (normal approach); can also use robot to flip bridge up for partner on opposite side
• Ball Intake: Two-sided (front and back), each 21.5" wide
• Ball Storage: Three balls, controlled by sensors to avoid pickup of 4th ball
• Ball Shooter: Single axle, camera-processed PID controls of shooter wheel speed, shooter exit angle (elevation) and turret direction to increase shot accuracy (recent software tuning has increased our accuracy since NCR)
  
• Autonomous:
  • Tip co-op bridge w/ball pickup to score up to 5 high baskets. (Normally only balls available for 4 high baskets.)
  • Tip own alliance bridge if an alliance member has autonomous which can score balls from co-op bridge
  • Configurable shot times to avoid ball congestion with partners. (Two balls shot 1-2 seconds apart, with time of first shot varying from 2-13 seconds into hybrid.)
  • "Sit and Score" including "A-Bomb" modes (send or receive)
• Other Capabilities:
  • Barrier crossing
  • Defense: High-traction drivebase for pushing (used this to great advantage during GSR elimination matches - yes we were the defensive robot!)
• 2012 Tournament Performance:
  • GSR (Week 1): Finalists. #7 seed, most co-op balances of regional. Selected alliance partners of 885 and 2791. Went 5-0 in first five elimination matches against #2, #3, #1 seeds before catastrophic failure of alliance partner in 2nd finals match reduced our alliance to 2 robots.
  • NCR (Week 6): Winners. #1 seed, most co-op balances of regional. Selected alliance partners of 1311 and 2642.
• 2012 Robot Video:
  • Bridge Hang-off Demo: Our practice robot hanging off bridge, showing dynamic stability of the robot -- we can hang 10" off a moving bridge without danger of tipping. http://youtu.be/j0xDC5w6mzc
  • NCR Finals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tZXspeCOAM with teams 1311 and 2642.