Team 95 Upper Valley Robotics

A FLL comp will be held on Nov. 15 from 9AM-4PM in Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth.

Please come.

Open to all.

-Eric-

Our site was attacked by the Chinese spamer/bot named 200.63.42.13.

If you have any info please contact the site admin (me)

Special thanks to Axel.

-Eric-

That’s right!

We have finished uprading the site to a new look for the 2009 year.

One of the key new aspects is Ad Space for our sponsors.

Enjoy!

-Eric G.-

Here is the FLL Poster.

Criticize and Discuss.

-Eric-

We will be moving the website to my server. This way we can have a faster, cheaper and better controlled site. I have unlimited bandwidth and storage in my plan so I’m happy to share.

We may need to switch to a new platform.

Please decide

http://e107.org/

http://www.xaraya.com/

http://www.phpbb.com/

Thanks,

-Eric-

We now have a great banner to hang around!It’s six by two feet, full color,  and made out of thick vinyl.Hope you can spot this huge banner soon!  -Eric- 

These events are as follows, 

• September 25, 2008: Team 95 Meeting Room 6 In LHS.
• November 15, 2008: Lego Robotics Competition in Thayer.

Thanks!-Eric-  

Now that we all have seen the shooting in the Thayer Atrium, how about a real competition:

Yes, it really went all the way over the other ball.

We were featured on CATV8, the local public access channel in the Upper Valley, and the production made it up on YouTube:

Many thanks to Steve for shooting, editing, and publishing this video!

We got down Thursday and pretty  much had everything (including the knocker) that we had at Manchester fully operational  at 3, so we had 5 hours to get IR receiving working, and we succeeded. Friday morning, some more testing, but after about noon, a curious thing happened — there was nothing for us to do. We, that is the pit crew, basically sat around and tried to fix things that didn’t need fixing, and talking to the hundreds of judges, other team members, and generally curious people who walked by. In fact, after our last match there was so little to do that we started to peel the plastic off the Lexan sheets so our bot became totally see-through (but we didn’t finish the job, because the awards ceremony came up). Saturday morning, we sat around in the pits and had our two matches, afraid to even practice for fear of breaking something (and nobody needed the practice!). After our last match, we were reinspected (there was a slight hiccup with our knocker not being held down, but it ended up working fine) and one of the judges said that his friend (who ended up being the regional director of FIRST) wanted to see the robot in action, so we brought it over to the practice fields and started having problems. First, the compressor fuse blew again (which is an annoying and difficult replacement), then later we pulled out the utube PWM cable and couldn’t pick up balls. In the final matches (quarterfinals), there were numerous scoring confusions over our teams, but it ended up working out in the end. I thought that it was an amazing experience and well worth the long ride — certainly a competition to consider for two years from now (though apparently Blue Man Group plays _live_ at the Boston regional…).