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Robotics Demonstration

April 16th, 2008

We have been invited to participate in demonstrations before (and maybe during) the River Rats areana football game on Saturday, May 3 at the Civic Center.

Michigan Pictures Posted

April 1st, 2008

Some pictures from the Michigan Regional have been posted. Go check them out. Some videos will be added later when I have more time.
Also, more pictures have been added to the Pittsburgh Regional page.

Michigan: Saturday

March 29th, 2008

Today, the qualification rounds wrapped up. We competed in two matches and did well. However, when it came time to select alliances for the bracket matches, we were not picked.

Michigan: Friday

March 28th, 2008

Today we competed four times today. Our robot performed really well. Our alliance won one or two of those matches. We hurdled and placed the ball on top of the rack multiple times, proving our robot’s capability.

Michigan: Thursday

March 27th, 2008

Today we participated in the practice rounds at the competition in Michigan. Our robot did a decent job and scored some points. The main objective however, was to practice different methods of scoring.

Pittsburgh: Saturday

March 15th, 2008

We arrived early today so that we could start working as soon as the pits opened to fix the problems that we had yesterday.

GP Award

March 15th, 2008

Our team won the Gracious Professionalism (GP) award today at the Pittsburgh Regional competition.

Pittsburgh: Friday

March 14th, 2008

Today we started out with out robot not working no matter what we seemed to do with it. Eventually at the end of the day we found condensation in the motors. Since they were electric motors, that was definitely the problem. So we replaced it and when we tested it after all the matches were [...]

Website Award

March 14th, 2008

The Red Barons won the Website Award at the Pittsburgh Competition.
Congratulations Team 63!

Pittsburgh: Thursday

March 13th, 2008

On Thursday, we started out the day with problems with the robot. At first it wouldn’t even move. We tried many different solutions to it and eventually it improved somewhat. However, we never got it fully functional and didn’t score many points. We went back to the hotel disappointed but hopeful that we would fix [...]

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