FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC®)

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2012: REBOUND Rumble

FIRST Game Description - REBOUND Rumble

Good looking team aren't they?





We got a call requesting an appearance of our golf playing robot at the 2nd annual SBPLI Golf Fundraiser held July 28 at the Stonebridge Golf Club in Hauppauge. It was a bright hot day with some cooler cloud cover coming in about the time we arrived with five students and an advisor to setup on the putting green and range in the robot on one of the holes. Golfers began drifting in as they finished their rounds and the cocktail hour began about 6 o'clock. Some tried their putting against the robot's and occasionally some golfers placed their balls closer to the hole than the robot, and were awarded raffle tickets as a prize. Most lost as the robot dropped it's putts into the cup.


Central Islip has pulled a rookie team together, so we had the lead teacher over, then began mentor visits once a week. The Islip robotics students drove our 2010 robot in a lap around the school using inside hallways, drawing stares and attracting comments. We left them with the 2010 robot to study and play with and tentatively planned workshops on programming, the kitbot, and electrical/control system. They are also invited to shadow Hauppauge at our off-season competitions. For Deer Park the Regional Director has sent out an appeal for the loan of unused robots.

Manufacturing Symposium - October 21
The day before Homecoming we supported SBPLI by demonstrating LogoMotion at a Manufacturing Symposium held at Suffolk County Community College's Brentwood campus. Three teams were there, Hauppauge, Westhampton Beach, and Bay Shore. We brought our tube rack and lots of tubes, some loaned by Smithtown, and we all just drove about putting tube up on the rack and taking them down again. We were given a large 30x30 carpeted exhibit space right in the center of all. Students spoke to visitors and got to tour the booths talking to industry folks. The college also took us on a tour of their extensive machine shop facility.

The Homecoming parade used the Bosi's trailer and SUV on a bright sunny day. The trailer was decorated, one of the big ball robots was used, gripping and raising the enormous red ball from the Nascar year. We handed out candy as usual, then at the field we had a table and the minibot pole to run robots up. We sold tickets for our pancake breakfast fundraiser at Applebee's and Twizzlers donated by one of the parents.

Safe Halloween was a rainy, blustery day. A lot of children showed up anyway. We used our 2008 robot to catch orbit balls thrown by the trick-or-treaters running through batteries at a fairly regular pace - we'll need to buy more spare batteries this year! The arm broke a shackle by completely bending it out of shape, then after that was replaced we ran a while longer before the pin holding a sprocket to the motor shaft also broke. So for the last half hour or so the robot dodged by driving alone.




Our Fall off-season events are among our favorites. We planned to attend two off-season events this Fall. Unfortunately, Deer Park couldn't get a FIRST field except for one of the SAT Saturdays and the same date as the Brunswick Eruption, one of our other traditional off-season events, so we first decided on a substitute event, but Francis Lewis in Queens had a number of teams drop out at the last minute forcing a late cancellation of the event.
Field setup was Friday night and everything checked out fine. Saturday morning we lost the team lights (not critical), but didn't quite understand why until later. All the field, DJ, team electrical stuff finally overloaded a circuit breaker and we had a power outage (thankfully between matches) during the Elimination rounds. Some quickly rerouted power cables and a reset breaker solved that problem and after 10 nervous minutes (for the field crew) the rest of the event went smoothly. Oh, after rerouting the power cables we also got enough power to get the team lights and field timers back and operating. With a round number of 18 teams our FTA was able to devise an Elimination playoff that left no one out.
Deer Park matches went very smoothly for us (6 wins-2 losses) with a lot of new team members getting an opportunity to drive the robot and experience the demands of competition. We all got eight Qualifying matches, finishing in fourth position. We teamed with Hicksville (1468) and Bay Shore (271) to take home the Finalist trophy. We had a few mishaps of our own fault that were learning experiences: the minibot launch switch was left on causing instant deploy as soon as teleop started, the spring tubing wasn't connected necessary to launch the minibot another time,

We had a fundraiser at Sears Hardware in Hauppauge where we got a % of total sales on Sunday. We took a couple of robots there for display.




Pictures:

• SBPLI golf fundraiser
• Rookie Teams - Central Islip
• Manufacturing Symposium at Suffolk County Community College
• Homecoming Parade
• Safe Halloween
• Deer Park Invitational
• Pre-season
• Oldies Concerts
• Applebee's Pancake Breakfast
• 2012 Kickoff Breakfast
• 2012 Kickoff Field
• The Build Season

General Season Videos

Golf Robot Code (for the Team 358 2010 robot)
Team 358 Tool Inventory (summer 2011)
BAE Grant Application
Special Thanks
Officers
Seniors
Schedule of Events
Work Files