Hello everyone,
I just wanted to let the public know where our team stands. As it sits right now, our team is no longer in existence. Due to the two lead mentors stepping down due to personal reasons. I have not had enough interest from students wishing to get the team back together. If anyone has any questions, please feel free to email me at matt@frostbyte754.com.
Regards,
Mathew Peterson
f you guys haven’t heard, FIRST has teamed up with National Instruments, the folks that make LabView, and are deploying new robot controllers. These new controllers are called “CompactRIO” and are quite an upgrade from the old IFI pic controllers. Here is an excerpt from WPI’s website, link.
“The FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) has adopted the CompactRIO (cRIO) control system for advanced robotics for its 2009 season and beyond. The cRIO from National Instruments can be programmed in LabVIEW or C.
National Instruments (NI) is dedicated to supporting engineering education and today’s students at every level. By supporting hands-on learning combined with cutting edge technology, NI works to provide a fun and engaging environment to get students excited about engineering and science. This approach is a key piece to the puzzle to encourage students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math. Through this partnership with FIRST, products, mentors, and financial support can be provided to help nuture future engineers.”
Here’s a couple of the new improvements:
Here’s a nice picture from WPI’s website
Links for further information:
Videos:
Looks like we have an exciting year ahead of us!!
OK Team,
Great job, as a quick summary for all; at the Wisconsin regional, we competed against 60 robots and finished up 50th. We did not do as well as we would have liked but the competition was stiff out there.
Attached are a few pictures of FROSTBYTE in the arena.
Great job everyone in making this competition a successful event!
Now that we are back, we need to unload the trailer to the M&M plaza today at 4:00 pm and our robot should arrive back in Marinette on Wednesday.
I look forward to seeing everyone.
Hello everyone.
Here is some of the important information from the Milwaukee Regional. If you have questions or want more info, here is the link to the Regional Website: http://www.wisconsinregional.org
The Drive Team and Pit Crew are leaving from the NWTC tomorrow at 5:00 A.M. SHARP. Try to be there 5-10 minutes early.
If you have not filled out a consent form you can download one here.
The above link also contains directions to the Cellular Arena in Milwaukee.
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When you are on site at the Competition, here are some of the rules we have to follow (this is also from the above link):
-Site Restrictions-
Please read the following restrictions and adhere to them in order to promote an orderly, safe, pleasant, and exciting competition. As a group, we all should honor agreements with the venue and help promote the spirit of good partnership.
Please:
1. Do not bring food on the site. If you bring food, do not bring it onto the property.
2. Do not use noisy devices, such as any type of floor stompers, whistles, or air horns.
3. Do not save seats. It is not fair to other teams or to the public guests we hope to interests team sponsors or volunteers.
4. Do not ship robots directly to the site. All shipments go through the Drayage
Company.
5. Do not arrange for Internet access on the site or bring free phone lines for same.
6. Do not sell any products. This includes food, hats, shirts, or any promotional products.
7. Do not give out any free food products, such as candy, water, soft drinks, or fruit. You may trade team pins, however.
8. Do not use helium tanks.
9. Do not bring live bands to play in the audience. This dilutes the presentation on the playing field and is too loud and confusing for the audience.
10. Do not play loud music in the Pit because it interferes with important announcements. If a team receives more than a warning or two, the power to the team’s Pit Station will be shut off and/or the music confiscated.
11. Do not run in the venue.
12. Open-toed shoes are not allowed.
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Here is a schedule from the Regional Website:
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| Thursday, March 13th, 2008 |
| 7:45AM: 3 Team Reps allowed to uncrate 8:30AM: Pits and Machine Shop Open 8:30AM-12:00PM: Registration and Robot Inspection 10:00AM-5:30PM: Practice Rounds 12:00PM-1:00PM: Lunch Break 8:00PM: Pits and Machine Shop Close |
| Friday, March 14th, 2008 |
| 8:00AM: Pits and Machine Shop Open 9:30AM: Opening Ceremonies 9:50AM-4:00PM: Seeding Matches 12:00PM-1:00PM: Lunch Break 4:00PM: Awards Ceremony 5:30PM: Team Social* Opens 6:00PM: Pits and Machine Shops Close |
| Saturday, March 15th, 2008 |
| 8:00AM: Pits and Machine Shop Open 9:30AM: Opening Ceremonies 9:50AM-11:45AM: Seeding Matches 11:45AM-12:00PM: Alliance Selections for Final Rounds 12:00PM-1:00PM: Lunch Break 1:00PM-3:00PM: Final Rounds 3:00PM: Award Ceremony 5:00PM: Pits and Machine Shop Close, Crates must be packed for shipping |
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If you need any more info, please check out the Website.
Go Frostbyte!
-Moises del Real, PR
Hi web viewers! If you are unable to make it to the regional, you can watch it here. Check out the link on the side called “Live Stream”.
