Archive for January 10, 2010
Done with class homework. No m…
Jan 10th
Done with class homework. No more hockey or football to watch. No reason to be awake.
Oh, and playing poker rather t…
Jan 10th
Oh, and playing poker rather than working on homework (class or house). I feel a little guilty.
Drinking Jameson (12 yo), Go I…
Jan 10th
Drinking Jameson (12 yo), Go Irish! Still watching football.
Learning how to use LabVIEW fo…
Jan 10th
Learning how to use LabVIEW for robotics, working on class homework, watching football. Just accidently saw who won last night. Dang.
Soccer playing robots
Jan 10th
FRC 2010 Competition Field
The FRC 2010 kickoff was yesterday with teams learning the competition rules for the season. This year the team will design and build a robot to play the game of Breakaway. There is an animated video produced by the game designers. Each team joins two others to form an alliance to play a match against another alliance. In early rounds, you have random alliance partners. Points are scored for each goal (obviously), and bonus points are awarded at the end of the match for elevating off the ground by grabbing or climbing a tower, or hanging off an alliance robot already on the tower.
In the afternoon, we headed back to ERHS and had a 3 hour design session. If it isn’t obvious, we have a LOT of issues to foresee and resolve while desiging, building, programming, and testing. All in the next 6 weeks; the robot ships to the March 11-13 regional competition in Baltimore on Feb 23rd.