So I looked through and through, and could find no thread about SVR '07. So I decided to make one.
As usual, Paly Robotics will be at SVR. We hope to get a more operational robot than last year, and we definitely hope to have some fun and kick some $@#$@#$@#.
What about you? Will you be there?
Yup. I misspelled silicone. Well, the material silicone is spelled with an e. The valley isn’t. Failure on my behalf.
Team 675 Represent 
114 will be there in full force. Can’t wait to see everyone there. We’ll be entering our animation into the silicon valley regional, so you all better be ready for some stiff animation competition (I’m looking at you 192 
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And since I know everyone from the Silicon Valley area will be reading this thread, I was wondering if anyone would be willing trade their 2007 CMU camera for some motors or something. We have project we’re working on, and we need another 2007 camera for it to be legal. If anyone out there is willing to trade us for something, shoot me a PM.
Thanks, and I look forward to seeing you all in a month and a half (so soon!)
Mike C.
beware the goat
MVRT team 115 will be there, ready to Rack N’ Roll!
Hope everyone is surviving build ! Only 3 weeks left!
See you all at SVR!
(team 114 - WOW two cameras! nice)
We’re looking forward to competing down in the Bay Area this season.
Can anyone suggest some things that our team may be able to see after the event on Sunday? Our flight doesn’t leave until 8:30 PM Sunday night, so we’ve got all day Sunday for sight-seeing and such. We’d planned to go to Great America, but its season doesn’t begin until the following weekend.
We’re also considering trying to take a train to San Francisco for the day, but I’m worried that it’ll take far too long. What else is there to see in the San Jose area besides the Tech Museum and, say, the Winchester Mystery House?
If you like hockey and the Sharks are in town, that’s an option. Otherwise, I would definitely recommend taking the Caltrain up to San Francisco. It’s an hour and a half each way, and $13.50 a person for a day pass. Go ride the street cars, hang out at Pier 39… it’s a lot of fun. San Jose is a nice place, but as far as having stuff to do, I’ve found it to be pretty limiting, particularly with Great America being closed. </twocents>
Team 668 will be there. You guys better be ready!
The Tech Museum is always nice. Down the street and around the corner is the California Theater, which sometimes shows old movies, complete with pre-show cartoons, newsreel and the mighty Wurlitzer organ. If there’s a show while you’re in town, I highly recommend it. A little farther north, in Mountain View, is the Computer History Museum.
Team 766 will be there again. Hopefully one of the teams this year can dethrone 254 and their dominance of SVR (thanks for picking us last year!).
I have to second the Tech, aka Tech Museum of Innovation. Pretty darrn cool place, especially for robotics people. Otherwise, you could go up to San Fran, though it’s a pretty long ride each way, or the Computer History Museum (also mentioned here before).
-Guy
Everyone enjoying their build season I hope…
368 will be there once again - gotta see our hero Mark Leon of course! :yikes:
I noticed that many teams in other areas hold organized scrimmages on their practice fields. Does anyone in our area do it? We’d love to come somewhere and get some practice with more than a few robots.
-Guy
254 usually has their practice field open to all teams to use, and have held scrimmages in the past. I’d contact them and see what’s up.
I don’t know if my team will be there, but I might go check it out!
Here are some websites that might help you out.
http://www.artsopolis.com/index.php
http://siliconvalley.citysearch.com/
http://sanjose.org/visitors/thingstodo/main.php
One thing in particular I plan to check out, as soon as we get through the build, is the MC Escher exhibit at the San Jose Museum of Art. It will be running through April 22nd.
Hope that helps,
Dennis
We may or may not be opening our field to everyone this year. We’d definitely like to, but as of now we will not be setting up a secondary field like last year. We do not have enough manpower to setup a field at a secondary location from our lab, nor enough mentors to supervise it.
Due to both teams being extremely behind, we will probably also not be able to let teams come in and use the playing field in our lab. We’d have to limit it to only one team at a time, if we could even find enough supervision to have that many people in our lab, and it would be unfair to all the local teams to not allow everyone in here to practice.
If we are able to let teams come over and practice, we’ll let everyone know. If anyone is making a practice robot, you’ll be welcome to come over after ship and practice on the field in our lab.
ARC (852) will be there in full force! I look forward to seeing ya’ll!
only 3 weeks before 766 repeats at SVR 
does anyone know if there’s going to be a social this year? It’s not listed on the agenda