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[BB] Announcing the Beta Testers
Good Morning Teams,
Thank you to everyone who applied to be a Beta Test Team. There were a lot of strong candidates; unfortunately, we weren’t able to accommodate all of you. Emails were sent this morning to everyone who applied, now I can share the list with you. Testing C/C++ 151 Tough Techs 179 The Children of the Swamp 188 Woburn Robotics 1158 Eagle Corps 1334 Red Devils 1511 Rolling Thunder 1714 MORE Robotics 1730 Team Driven 1816 The Green Machine 1946 AFR Testing Java 20 The Rocketeers 67 HOT Team 294 Beach Cities Robotics 339 Kilroy 341 Miss Daisy 399 Eagle Robotics 624 CRyptonite 811 The Cardinals 957 SWARM 1073 The Force Team 1089 Team Mercury 1123 Autodidactic Intelligent Minors (AIM) 1160 FireBird Robotics 1279 ColdFusion 1421 Team Chaos 1557 12 Volt Bolt 1777 Viking Robotics 1852 Amore 2974 Team WALT 3006 West High FIRST Robotics Testing LabVIEW 45 TechnoKats Robotics Team 103 Cybersonics 115 Monta Vista Robotics Team 122 Nasa Knights 330 BeachBot 441 Devil Dogs 488 Team Xbot 812 The Midnight Mechanics 1577 SteamPunk 1629 GaCo 1718 The Fighting Pi 1746 Forsyth Alliance 1912 Team Combustion The Beta teams will receive directions and copies of the new software once they sign the 2010 Disclosure agreements. Some of these Beta teams will be tapped to test hardware as soon as the elements become available. You can follow the Beta Teams’ progress and ask questions here. 127 days until the 2010 Kickoff See you there! |
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Re: [BB] Announcing the Beta Testers
Congrats to those on the list!
Sigh. 2502 nowhere to be seen. At least 1816 is close by! |
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Re: [BB] Announcing the Beta Testers
Interesting ... that was posted to the blog before the email was sent out (which I just got 10 seconds ago...)
Congrats to the teams. Glad to see alot of last year's Beta testers return. |
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Re: [BB] Announcing the Beta Testers
Wohoo. Nice to see 1746 got the beta this year.
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Re: **FRC EMAIL**/Announcing Beta Test Teams
Team 1816 is very excited to be a Beta Test Team again this year! Good luck to all the Beta testers!
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Re: **FRC EMAIL**/Announcing Beta Test Teams
I created a map that shows the approximate location of all the beta test teams.
The closest teams seem to be 151, 811, and 1073. 330 and 294 are also very close, and there are 3 other beta test teams within a 2 hour drive. There are also 4 teams pretty close in eastern PA and NJ. California has the most teams, 6, followed by New Hampshire and Virginia, 3. Only 3 of the teams have won the championship chairmans award, down from 6 last year. Last edited by Joe Ross : 04-09-2009 at 23:21. |
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Re: **FRC EMAIL**/Announcing Beta Test Teams
Joe, that map is really interesting. The "greens" (Java) seem to be east and west coast, while "blues" (C++) seem more concentrated in the upper mid-section (only US analysis). Wonder why that trend is? (I'm sure it's based on who applied for what, but it's interesting...)
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Re: **FRC EMAIL**/Announcing Beta Test Teams
Hello from Team 115, many of us are actually really surprised we got it but nevertheless, we'll help FIRST to the best of our abilities.
It's also weird we're the only NorCal team for beta testing... Good luck to all teams !! |
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Re: **FRC EMAIL**/Announcing Beta Test Teams
Now, which teams get to beta test the hardware?
How many devices will be distributed to the beta teams? |
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Re: **FRC EMAIL**/Announcing Beta Test Teams
All of them.
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I believe this will be different then last year. Teams already have a cRIO and all the required hardware. Some teams will be asked to test any new hardware (classmate PC, and anything else), and some will only be testing software. They have not said yet how the teams that will test hardware will be selected. |
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Re: **FRC EMAIL**/Announcing Beta Test Teams
*notes down that post as my Bi-Weekly Chief Delphi Mistake*
I'm wondering exactly what software wise we could test without an (accurate) DS for C++ that we otherwise wouldn't know from 2009 build. That is, unless they activate stuff we didn't have access to on the cRIO last year... ![]() I guess that means my team's spare cRIO will be shared between a swerve chassis group and a beta group then. |
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if not, then a trip to the closest team with the new DS may be in order |
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Re: **FRC EMAIL**/Announcing Beta Test Teams
A couple of thoughts:
This year Beta test teams won't have much to test in the way of new hardware, and will be mostly concerned with making sure new and existing libraries work appropriately. I was a bit disappointed with the fact that FRC expects teams to recycle the cRIO--while understandable because of its enormous cost, it will incapacitate older robots which veteran teams like to maintain for demonstration purposes. Also, unlike last year's beta test, this year the Java Beta test involves software that is entirely opensource, and can actually be acquired by anyone at this point in time, should you know where to look. Sure they are prerelease, but I can confirm that they work. At the very least having the documentation available to all teams as it is(once again, loook around carefully--its easier to find than the source), should give everyone interested in using java plenty of opportunity to train on the system. |
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I would also like to see how they mapped out the teams. In Texas we have two teams from Houston as Beta testers.
Has anyone made a map of all the different Beta teams ? Random sidenote: The DiscoBots (2587) applied but were not accepted. I believe this is because the high # teams get much less respect in FIRST. I would be interested in the number of +2000 number teams that applied for Beta. |
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