Archive for March, 2008

Soap Video Archives of Boilermaker 2008

Soap has the video archives up from Boilermaker:

http://www.soap.circuitrunners.com/2008/movies/in/

Our best match was MATCH 44, and the quarter finals

Just to re-cap, we where in the following matches:

MATCH 4
MATCH 11 (robot controller starts to go…)
MATCH 15 (robot controller fails at end of match…)
MATCH 22
MATCH 29
MATCH 38
MATCH 44
MATCH 53 (robot crashed into the back of us an bent our fork)
MATCH 57

QUARTER FINAL #2 MATCH 1 loss
QUARTER FINAL #2 MATCH 2 win
QUARTER FINAL #2 MATCH 3 loss

News Coverage of Boilermaker Regional

From the Herald-Press, 3/17/2008 

Team coaxes dead robot into action
Team THRUST didn’t win the weekend’s big prize, but its members did bring a brainless robot back to life - and impressed judges enough with their reaction to an accident during the initial building process to take home a safety award…
Read the full story with photo >>

Team 1501 Preview Video - Boilermaker Regional