Monday, March 31, 2008

Team Unlimited at NSTA Boston

This past Saturday Team Unlimited was at the NSTA (National Science Teachers Association) Natioanl Convention held in Boston, MA. We were there to help promoted FIRST and all its subsets (FLL, FTC, and FRC).

We meet many teachers who were interested in the FIRST programs. We dealt mainly with the teachers interested in FTC as what was where our experience lies primarily. It was a great convention, we had a great time, and exhibited our robots for demostations.

Pictures will added later as they are processed in photoshop!

Regards,
~Team Unlimited, FTC 1

Thursday, March 27, 2008

A little comedy..

As a fun little project, Team Unlimited filmed a video of us setting up the field. We were a little borred after an 8 hour work session, so we goofed off and did this. It was a lot of fun.

The video was created about a month ago.

Scouting Database

A project that Team Unlimited has been working on is a Scouting Database for the use of all teams in Atlanta.

This project was created in Microsoft Access, and you will not be able to edit the file unless you own this software. We decided on this software as we learned how to compile the data in an efficient manor. We are currently compiling the data of the teams that send data in. We will be posting a .pdf and a Microsoft Access file on our website - http://eaglevex.syraweb.org

The database is currently all done, and we are just awaiting information from team's and a final report will be released about a week or two ahead of the tournament.

Pictures of the working database can be found here - http://picasaweb.google.com/patrick.vex/TeamUnlimitedScoutingDatabaseCaptures

If your team is interested in sending info, please comment to this post with the following info:

TEAM NAME -
TEAM NUMBER -
RING CAPACITY -
SCORE ON SIDE GOAL - y/n
SCORE ON PLATFORM - y/n
SCORE ON SINGLE GOAL - y/n
SCORE ON PAIRED GOAL - y/n
LATCH ONTO GOAL - y/n
AUTONOMOUS - y/n
OVERALL STRATEGY -
OFFENSIVE OR DEFENSE? -
SPEED (1-10) -
MANUVERABILIY (1-10) -
ROBOT DESCRIBTION -
LINK TO PICTURE -
COMMENTS -

Thanks for all the help!

Welcome

Welcome to the blog, we will be trying to have updates periodically for the blog.

As a member of Team Unlimited, I thought that we should get a blog together to document the team better. On this blog activities from Team Unlimited will be posted, new designs, and basically anything we do will be uploaded here.

For those of you who are not familar with Team Unlimited (FTC 1), we are a community run team that follows the principle of F.T.C. (Furthering Technology and Community). We have been a FIRST team for 7 seasons now (3 FLL and 4 FTC), and have enjoyed every moment of it.

Please check out our website at - http://eaglevex.syraweb.org

If you have any questions, please leave them here on the blog, and a member of Team Unlimited will respond to the question.

NOTE: Feel free to comment on anything that you see on this site, but please be advised, if you posts are offensive, rude, advertisting, etc. They will be deleted promptly, we want to keep a clean environment maintained on this blog.