Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Team Unlimited in Atlanta!

Team Unlimited touched down in Atlanta today at about 6:00 pm. It was a lot of fun with all the seating issues ;).

After landing, we had to rush to the Congress Center in order to give our presentation, Founding a Community Based Robotics Program: A Case Study. It was a great success, about 20 people showed up to the presentation. It will be available on our site (http://eaglevex.syraweb.org).

We are looking forward to the competition tomorrow and would like to wish the best of luck to all the teams in competition tomorrow (FLL, FTC, and FRC teams!).

Don't forget to go to the Varsity tomorrow at 7:00 pm. Hopefully we will get a large draw from all the teams! Can't wait to see you all there!

Once again good luck to everyone!

Team Unlimited will be posting information at the end of the day, everyday while in Atlanta. We are going to get information up on the new kit tomorrow as they do a demo of the kit in the pits.

Regards,
~Team Unlimited (FTC #1)

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Your in Atlanta...now what?

This is something that Team Unlimited compiled for use by teams. Its a guide to Atlanta. Through our experiences over the last few years we've seen the good, and the bad of different places to go while in Atlanta.

We thought this would be good for teams who are going there for the first time, and also teams who want to go some place they may not of heard of before.

The link is below; click on "Beyond the Bots - Atlanta 2008":


Another thing for all teams! You have all been invited to a Flash Party (an unofficial party where people all suddenly show up at a place at a specific time) at the Varsity. For those of you who have not been to the Varsity before, it is a classic Atlanta institution that specializes in burgers, hot dogs, etc. Team Unlimited will not be paying for this party, so please bring your own money (about $10 per person). We are trying to get teams together after a day of competition as a way to unwind and relax with other teams.

Invitation:
Spread that word, and I hope that many teams attend this!

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Final design nearing completion!

After much testing, Team Unlimited has been working on our final design. This new design is very similar to our old robot (vertical intake for ring collection and has a linear extender for variable ring scoring to different scoring differences). We will have the design done on Saturday and will have photos and design schematics up for others.

In other robot related news, Alex is working on an animation of our robot in Maya for Atlanta. He will take the robot and make sure everything is modeled in Maya. He will work on the animation so that it will be ready for Atlanta and will be displayed proudly in our pits. Stop by and check it out!

Best of luck to all the teams as they do final changes to their robots and prepare for the internationals!

Regards,
~Team Unlimited, FTC #1

P.S. Photos will be uploaded as soon as the final design is finished!