I'll admit that the events at Epcot were pretty nice, but they too had their problems. . . You were at the mercy of the weather, and Disney hasn't figured out how to control that yet. - Kevin Sevcik [more]
This is the written entry for the 2004 Regional Chairman's Award made by RAGE Team 173 to the UTC New England Regional. We did not win the award, but learned a lot in the process!
This is a Power Point presentation of the Design Review process developed by Cyber Blue 234. It is modeled after processes used by our major sponsors. This process was used for the 2004 season and is posted here for any team to adapt or adopt for their program.
Here is a dashboard Control for the people still using visual basic 6 because they arnt on XP. It parses the WHOLE packet and is very fast. Also included is the source and an example app.
On our 2004 robot we utilize, not one, but two gyros. Our horizontally mounted gyro is employed to compute our robot’s heading, both relative and absolute, while our vertically mounted gyro is used to detect x-axis tilt.
Code samples will be provided throughout this paper to explain our programm...
This brochure is a guide for FIRST competitions. It outlines how Team 217 members should act when participating in a competition, and describes what attitude one should have to maximize the FIRST experience at competitions.
This is a simple scouting sheet for those who are delegated the task of "the hunt." This sheet has basic information on it, like team number, W-L-T, can it hang?, etc... Also assigns numbers to strategy used, and effective counter-strategies.
I began building this database for 179 and 180. it is however incomplete but it has all the teams listed and has the infustructure to enter data quickley and be used univsally.
Wish I had made this before the regional. I think this will help teams out that like to do scouting and see what other teams they should look out for. Great for making strategy with or against each team.
It has spaces for Auto, Movable Goal, Stationary Goal, and Bar; every feature I could think...
This is a program that i wrote based on our team's scouting sheet. It takes an input of the regional competition you are attending from a file, and allows you to rank each team in terms of mobility, function, autonomous operation, human player, and overall opinion. The teams can then be sorted by a...
This is the first half of Team 810's unique C++/Flash MX Dashboard. This C++ backend reads in data from the serial port and saves it to a data file. The Flash MX frontend then reads that data file and updates itself.
This is a VC++.net solution, I'm not very familiar with VS.net, but I believ...
After watching the webcasts of the VCU comp, I noticed how important the penalties are to the game, so, I've ADDED a penalty column to my spreadsheet. ALSO- I recently bought a PocketPC, so, I've made an Excel spreadsheet that is a little more compact so it fits easily on a PDA screen. Both file...
We bought a button maker from Dr Don's buttons www.buttonsonline.com/
who includes with button parts stickers custom made for the back of the buttons. The stickers have our web, and 3 main sponsors' web addresses.
It gave us the idea to make stickers for the skateboard keyrings we're handing...
as long as were all honoring Andy, i thought it was time to relace this drawing of the front plate of our control box. its 1/2 scale so it would be 12" in reality
I'll admit that the events at Epcot were pretty nice, but they too had their problems. . . You were at the mercy of the weather, and Disney hasn't figured out how to control that yet. - Kevin Sevcik [more] 
