Archive for January, 2008

Andy Mark road trip Planning?

Let me or Paul know if your on the mechcanical team and interesting in making a road trip to Kokomo to pick up some gear boxes for the team. Need some student shoppers!…

Andy Mark

Andy Mark Website

Auxillary Lighting on the Robot was Approved

See this Q & A post here by our internal rules team.

Read Ruling Here

Fog Lights

Offbeat: Which is faster SMS Text or Morse Code?

Often times we see students text messaging each other in robotics. Do any of them know morse code? Which do you think is faster to send a message? SMS text or morse code?

Watch the video.

SMS or Morse Code

Team Update #3: Robot Coach Explained

Well, we’ve been confused on rules allowed to communicate with the robot. We actually thought of ways to send the same commands in a “message” format to the robot. With this rule change, the game only allows 4 dedicated commands and no message instructions to the robot. Glad they cleared that up, it was a bit confusing at first. Download here.

TV Remotes

Kokomo Workshop Presentation Downloads

Each year our team travels to Kokomo Workshops hosted by TechnoKats Team 45. All the Indiana teams are part of an organization called Indiana FIRST and either present or makes presentations to other teams throughout Indiana. Here are the power points from a couple of our presentations.

Applied Sensors

Applied Sensors Power Point

Win FIRST Website

FIRST Website Power Point