Archive for January 8th, 2007
Monday, January 8th, 2007
2007-The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Hi and welcome to The Blog. My name is Cheyenne Manske and the only thing you really need to know is that there are two types of people in this world…”those who come into a room and say, ‘Here I am!’ and those who come in and say, ‘Ah, there you are!’” I am one […]
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Monday, January 8th, 2007
New Season
After watching the animation for the challenge the season, I was amazed at how many points lifting and stacking another robot was worth. The challenge is very different from last year’s. We are required to place innertubes onto a spider, aligning them as if playing tic tac toe. A difficulty I am expecting we will face is […]
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Monday, January 8th, 2007
“The worst bankrupt in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.” - H. W. Arnold
This is my first year in FIRST and it was two days after kick off and our team is rolling.
And… Whats my job?
Well my “Job” is to document our teams progress and graphic design.
Today was an interesting day for our team because we were looking at the “field” with the large spider structure. It does […]
No Comments » - Posted in Build Season by jjack
Monday, January 8th, 2007
Livin La Vida Rulebook
Today I got appointed the all important rulebook master. So for the next few days I will be spending my time memeorizing countless pages like some kind od wizard studying musty old tomes, with the difference being while the wizard gets magic power I get to learn the game rules. Although right now I’m […]
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Monday, January 8th, 2007
First day of Kickoff
Today, I reviewed the game that which our team will be competing in. In addition from the reviewing we formulated some ideas for the robot that we will be building. Later on today I helped relocate the game element for storage which we will use in the future.
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Monday, January 8th, 2007
Thinking up a design
Today I got to watch the video for the game since I was not at the kickoff to see it. After we watched the movie we went over to the other school where they had a model of the spider thing. To get the rings on to the poles I thought that we should have […]
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Monday, January 8th, 2007
Creative Clutter
With the buzz from he kick off event settling down, the build team has been hard at work discussing the various possibilities of our bot design. What has been decided so far is that we are going to design our robot to stack tubes on the 2 highest spiders; we may or may not have […]
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Monday, January 8th, 2007
Brainstorming
On Saturday, we learned what the game was for this year of FIRST. Once we were done cleaning up after the kickoff, we started coming up with different possible designs for the robot. A few people, including myself, thought that focusing on lifting other robots off the ground at the end of the match would […]
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Monday, January 8th, 2007
2007 electronic parts
We got the new electronic parts. A lot of them are really strange, and far different from the ones we were researching (2005 and 2006). The breaker panels were changed, and they have been made in a way that looks like it will be much harder to wire. There are also two breaker panels now. […]
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Monday, January 8th, 2007
FIRST meeting on Saturday
On Saturday January 6th in the High Tech High International there was a meeting discussing this year’s competition and the game was revealed the. Teams would now have only six weeks to design and build a robot that would pick up rubber tubes and put them on a structure. on each team there are three different teams that have to work […]
