Waiting to start
Can we pick up the bunny?
We were not successful at the Bunnybot competition, but the team learned some valuable information. We build a robot in four weeks and spend two weeks re-engineering it.
We spent the morning working on our manipulator and realized that our arm was too short. The manipulator We spent the morning working on our manipulator and realized that our arm was to short. The manipulator exploded when we tried to pick up a bola.exploded when we tried to pick up a bola. Thanks to Jim Jones for these pictures. You can see more pictures of the Bunnybot competition at http://picasaweb.google.com/imjayro/BunnyBot2009#. Thanks Jason Marr of Boeing for taking the pictures.
On Thursday, April 23rd, Microchip had a take your child to work day. Drake, Joshua, and Kayla took ISTI for the morning. The children of the employees enjoyed driving the robot around. They were able to pick up moon rocks and dump them. Some of them were better at driving the robot than our own drive team.
The parents enjoyed driving the robot also.
Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. The robots had to pick up moon rocks and and place them in the opposing alliance trailers. An empty cell could be picked up and exchange for a super cell. For each moon rock that is placed in an opposing alliance’s trailer, your alliance would receive 2 points. If you were able to score a super cell, you would receive 15 points but these could only enter the playing field during the last 20 seconds of the round.
During the seeding matches, our team finished with a 5-1-1 record for a seventh place finish. During the quarter finals, the team had to win five matches in a best of three because of field malfunctions. The team won two semi-final matches to move onto the finals where they fell in two matches.
