Today was the kick-off for the 2006 season of the F.I.R.S.T. Robotics Competition. We got our kits, saw the new game... it'll be rather interesting, I think. VERY different from previous seasons.
www.usfirst.org for info about F.I.R.S.T.
http://robotics.nasa.gov/events/2006_kickoff.php to see the kick-off video and game animation.
So, anyone else here involved at all? I mentor my old high school's team, since they have a shortage of experienced programmers, and this year good autonomous programming can make a HUGE difference.
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by al_tyranny on Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:35 am
I was actually going to scrape together a team for this to compete ...
until I read the part where you must send them 6000 USD to get the kit.
Too bad something like that is beyond my means for now ... would have been fun.
until I read the part where you must send them 6000 USD to get the kit.
Too bad something like that is beyond my means for now ... would have been fun.
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by Will on Mon Jan 09, 2006 2:37 am
I was involved a bit with F.I.R.S.T at my old high school, but it didn't really impress me that much. Plus, the kids on the team were assholes.
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by Bugs42 on Mon Jan 09, 2006 4:25 am
nighthawk wrote:Plus, the kids on the team were assholes.
Yeah, seems like there're people on every team who are just there because it looks good for college... there's a couple guys on my team that have damn near destroyed my faith in evolution.
What year(s) were you on a team, nighthawk?
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by Will on Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:14 pm
I did it about two years ago my freshman year.
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by pugrit on Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:58 pm
im pretty interested in the topic, too bad i dont have a subject on that in my course but i saw some displayed projects by the computer engineering students..seems cool.. they attached this doll with a skeleton robot and made it dance
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by thebeast on Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:44 pm
This is cool! I like some robotics but to dumb for eletronics to make somethink like that ;-)
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by Bugs42 on Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:58 am
thebeast wrote:This is cool! I like some robotics but to dumb for eletronics to make somethink like that
Well, that's the great thing about this program... almost everyone goes into it completely ignorant and comes out with a wealth of new knowledge.
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