Archimedes was super fun this year even for teams who got knocked out like us. I’d like to thank any teams who were partnered with us throughout the day. And a special thanks to 386 for working with us and to 555 for helping us as well (hint to 555, don’t forget to tell the alliance captain that your bot is in the crate). Also sorry to anyone who I said I would meet up with, I was plagued with a Fever and Throat issues throughout the weekend and really didn’t have much energy to do anything except go out to matches. Anyone try to be an alliance captain when you’re half awake, it’s not one of my fonder memories of FIRST. LOL
This was my first time at world.
I had a great time at Archimedes. Much better than going to school…
Hey no problem, it was really cool to have it on the robot. I think it actually made us better on the field. We need another one for next years robot when the time comes around.
Nice to meet you too Wendymom. And, I’m glad to hear you all did get your team award from us.
Sorry we couldn’t present it personally… we went by your pits once when we distributed the other awards… nobody was there.
Then we got into the finals, and I guess we never had a chance to come by and find you guys in your pits again. :o
Congratulations on being Team 1024’s Most Spirited Team award recipient!
OINK OINK BOOM!
-q
FIRST off, sorry about the double post. :o
Protronie, if you want the really basic explanation, it made the robot drive really good without me bothering it.
On the whole job thing… well I did get an offer from Allison Transmission yesterday to give a 30 minute presentation of my control system as well as for a job… :yikes:
I’m going to the University of Illionis at Urbana-Champaign (anybody else?) and majoring in Electrical Engineering.
…Amazing how far you can get with some software that makes a robot do some tricks for 15 seconds… 
Thanks everybody for a great season, and thanks to 1024 for building a great machine… without the rest of the robot all my software would have done is spin some motors real nice. :o
-q
Wow… I know how you feel on that one. I was blessed with a sore throat Tuesday morning, so I stayed home from school to keep everyone else on the team healthy and recover a bit before we left Wednesday. I had a swollen throat for basically all of the competition, and it left me with a very scratchy voice that was very audible. Try being a coach and an alliance captain with no voice… My team members were great though, I had a lot of fun overall, and I did regain most of my voice by alliance selections. Somehow multiple key people on my team manage to get sick during every competition we go to, and recover just around when it ends. :rolleyes:
Hope to see and work with a lot more of you next year. Please come to MORT’s home at the NJ regional. It is one of the best regionals in FIRST and more people should come and enjoy it. You will meet amazing teams like 103, 25, 75, and so many more and I just want to see everyone again next year.
Ahh I’ve finally had the time to get back to this thread…
WOW That was an amazing time at Championships.
I was a runner so I was dead tired half of the time, but all of the people I got to meet were great!
Thanks to the High Rollers, 987, for the opportunity you guys gave us in the alliance selection, and thanks to MOE, 365, for being our other alliance partners! I’d say we did very well though we lost, it was an awesome time!
Congrats to 1124, 1024 and 177. It was a well deserved win!
Hopefully I’ll have the privilege of seeing you all next year at Nationals!
That’s cool, and for a code like yours it’s easy to see how far it could take you. Have fun at college next year!
Thats a pretty fancy system you have in there q. id like to see the formula you used in the curve interpolation- it sounds pretty neat (=
we used essentially the same thing for our autonomous control, with the PID speed controllers and the heading system. I guess the only difference is that we didnt use an interpolator for the arcs (really only a dead-reckoning thing on the turns), and our driving was ultrasonic based rather than encoder based.
hey everyone!
i wanted to tell you all that our team had a great time playin with you on archimedes
weve learned a lot playing with you and hopefully we will come improved next year instead of tipping over four times…
anyway, i need your help- i need to contact anyone from team 1474, however, their team has no updated website and none of them have accounts on cheifdelphi…
so i was wondering if maybe someone here has a way of contacting any student of the team?
Thanks a lot, Ziv.
ContactNancy O., she was making a list of student emails from every team, she may have one from team 1474. Hope you can find one!
Thanks!
Can’t you just skip college, go the year after next, then you’re still a pre-college student and can still drive…just a thought, besides which do you think you’ll learn more from FIRST or college? haha
Thanks! You guys scared the crap out of me in the quarter finals, I thought you had us in that tied match by penalties…guess we lucked out :D. You were high on our list and definitely had a solid robot…you’re just never left for us to pair up with. I remember the same thing happening in '06 when you guys made it to Einstein by 1 point in the third match against us in Galileo:(.
Thank you to 525 for picking us, and to 93 for being awesome as well. We made a good run.
Congrats to our division champs, and of course to the SimChicken Wranglers, who we all knew were going to take it after week 1…
On a personal note, Q it was pretty sweet talking to you, your pretty amazing at what you do, and even better at explaining it, congrats to you and your team on the award.
Haha, that was a very tense 4 matches I predicted you guys beating us but I hoped it wouldn’t go that way. I keep watching the videos and looking at “Oh, if I did this different we could’ve won” and stuff like that.
As you guys know most of our team liked your robot more than our own (I mean how can you not like your robot, it was amazing), and we were happy to see you guys do good at GLR and Archimedes.
Thanks Bruce!! Once we saw 525 paired up with 27 we were all hoping you would consider us to round out your alliance. Once you picked us we thought we had the “team to beat” going into elims. I guess it just wasn’t to be.
You’ve got a great team in the SwartDogs and it was fantastic getting to know and work (play!) with your team. We all look forward to our paths crossing again in the future.
Thanks again for a great season!!
Sean
I’m not sure where it is specified, but I’m fairly certain that the definition of a pre-college student is one who has not graduated high school.
You could just not graduate year after year, but it may not be worth it…
How long are you guys going to keep this thread alive? This just enforces the fact that Archimedes officially had the most spirited and energetics group of people of all the divisions. (-:
Is there a reason not to keep the thread alive? We just like to talk about archi related stuff a lot.