Open Practice Field In New Jersey

[thefro526]

As some of you may or may not know, we've been lucky enough to have a full practice field setup at our school since 2009. We're going to open it up again to anyone who would like to use it Starting the week of January 31st. Hours will be from ~4pm-9pm Monday-Thursday, ~4pm-5:30pm Fridays, and 8am-2:30pm on Saturdays.

Our field is a full sized field, fully carpeted, with 4 towers, two full peg structures and 4 Feeding Slots. It's built to the "low cost" field drawings, but it works well enough to get an idea for the real field. As of right now, I'm still working on getting the appropriate tape for line tracking, and possibly the reflective material for some of the pegs to allow for Camera Tuning.

Only thing we like to ask is that you bring your own game pieces, once AM has them for sale we plan on purchasing at least 3 more of each, but until that happens, we'd like to attempt to keep our only 3 in decent shape. Also, Bumpers are not mandatory - but if you think that your robot might damage something without them on then we suggest you bring a set.

Address:

Burlington County Institute of Technology, 695 Woodlane Road, Westampton, NJ

If anyone has any questions or would like to come by feel free to contact me at thefro526(at)yahoo.com or via PM here. E-Mail is probably the most direct form of communication since it goes to my phone.

[staplemonx]

Thanks for the opportunity. we may tak you up on that. We are from South Philly highschool. http://southphilly-rambots.com/

[staplemonx]

Team 3553 out of Philly is going to try and make it up there Feb 5th. is that cool?

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by staplemonx

Team 3553 out of Philly is going to try and make it up there Feb 5th. is that cool?

That should be fine. Can you send me an E-Mail with your information?

My email is thefro526(at)yahoo.com

[Akash Rastogi]

Any update on if you have the reflective tape and the tracking tape for the carpet?

[liam.larkin]

816

As always your are so very gracious. I will pass on this most excellent news to my team and let you know.

Team
272

[John Delaney]

Team 293 would love to come by again this year, last years visit allowed us to learn about some limitations that we didn't consider.
I will get back to you later, first we need to build a bot.

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

Any update on if you have the reflective tape and the tracking tape for the carpet?

Stogi, the Carpet on our Practice field is tan, not dark grey like the competition field. I'm currently working on a solution to allow for line tracking - but it might end up being a separate piece of carpet with it's own pegs to allow teams to test tracking.

Originally Posted by liam.larkin

816

As always your are so very gracious. I will pass on this most excellent news to my team and let you know.

Team
272

Thanks! We'd love it if 272 stopped by!

Originally Posted by John Delaney

Team 293 would love to come by again this year, last years visit allowed us to learn about some limitations that we didn't consider.
I will get back to you later, first we need to build a bot.

Cool, you guys are welcome anytime!

[thefro526]

Here's a picture to give everyone an idea of the field, and it also shows the color of the carpet:



The Pegs, Feeder Slots and Lines were not in place last weekend when I took this picture so I'll try to take one tonight if our meeting isn't canceled.

I'm still unsure of line tracking on our Carpet, we haven't gotten our sensors hooked up to the robot yet, but once we do, we'll see it it works. I'd imagine it would, but I just want to make sure.

[thefro526]

As build season comes to a close, I just wanted to remind everyone that our Practice field is open. Looks like we've got a few teams planning on stopping by during the week as well as a few teams on Saturday.

If you're interested in coming, please PM or E-Mail me at thefro526(at)yahoo.com. We'd like to ask that you try to schedule at least one Day in Advance.

As of right now, for the rest of the week, the field will be available from 5pm-~9pm Monday through Friday, 11am-3pm on Saturday and ~9am-3pm on Sunday.

Again, we ask that you bring some form of bumpers, either complete or incomplete so that if your robot should hit the field walls, or another robot, we can minimize damage. Also, if you can bring your own tubes, that would be good as well, right now we have 4 of each tube, in addition to 2 or 3 uber tubes.

[thefro526]

Update: We're no longer allowed to Practice Friday Evening or Sunday.

Monday for most of the day, we should be open. If anyone is interested in coming please shoot me an email and we'll figure out times.