“Unity is strength…when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.” It was the last day of the season. After going through all the struggles, we are finally here. Now it’s the drive team’s turn to start practicing.
“Continuous effort is the key to unlocking our potential.” ‘Picture of the Day’ (Photo Credit: AJ)
Continue reading The Last Day – Progress Report of 18th February
We faced several obstacles, as work towards the completion of our robot. Since last two days, we have been facing some troubles regarding the programming and wiring. Here are some pictures which definitely captures the tension we had in our team. Hope to fix it soon as possible.
“The Day” Mrs. Gonzalez’s little girl peeks through the door as Mr.Gus (mentor) contemplates on the issue.
Continue reading Progress Update for February 15 & 17
Testing the catapult in the school gym. We needed to adjust the angle of the shooter, find the starting point from the target and the height of the shooting target. It worked out pretty good and we made progress at the end of the day. Progress update of 2nd and 5th February.
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress;and working together is success”…..A succesful shot at last.
Continue reading Progress Update of 2nd and 5th February
We already built the prototype robot and are done testing it, it worked pretty good. So now it’s time to modify and make the actual robot. We recently started making our robot’s parts. Again, the pressure is on. One mistake and we are left behind, as the deadline is approaching. We learned from our mistake while building the prototype, so I hope we will build a hell of a robot now. Wish us luck.
Picture of the day, by our own photographer, Intishar
Continue reading Progress Update of 30th January
Progress update of 25th January.
We are working on the robot’s arm. We have the design, just have to mount everything to its place. Easier said than done. Cutting all the pieces precisely and putting them together in the exact points is lot harder than it looks like. Though there’s a lot of pressure, we have Mr.Gus on our back. If one thing goes wrong, the whole thing goes wrong.
“Everything starts from a single point.” Dojo contemplates as he marks the points on the rod.
Continue reading Progress Update of 25th January
Animation describing the 2014 FIRST Robotics Competition game, Aerial Assist. Robots assist each other to move 24-inch game balls down the field and into low or high goals to score. The more the robots assist each other, the higher their bonus points will be. This animation was first shown at the 2014 season FRC kick-off broadcast in January, 2014. Final production version.
AERIAL ASSIST is played by two competing Alliances of three Robots each on a flat 25’ x 54’ foot field, straddled by a lighting truss suspended just over five feet above the floor. The objective is to score as many balls in goals as possible during a 2 minute and 30 second match. The more Alliances score their ball in their goals, and the more they work together to do it, the more points their alliance receives.
The match begins with one 10-second Autonomous Period in which robots operate independently of driver. Each robot may begin with a ball and attempt to score it in a goal. Alliances earn bonus points for scoring balls in this mode and for any of their robots that move in to their zones. Additionally, each high/low pair of goals will be designated “hot” for five seconds, but the order of which side is first is randomized. For each ball scored in a “hot” goal, the Alliance earns additional bonus points.
For the rest of the match, drivers remotely control robots from behind a protective wall. Once all balls in autonomous are scored, only one ball is re-entered in to play, and the Alliances must cycle a single ball as many times as possible for the remainder of the match. With the single ball, they try to maximize their points earned by throwing balls over the truss, catching balls launched over the truss, and scoring in the high and low goals on the far side of the field.
Alliances receive large bonuses for “assists,” which are earned for each robot that has possession of the ball in a zone as the ball moves down the field. Points are awarded for each action per the table below.
Tags :2014 FIRST Game Animation, 2014 FIRST, Competition, Team 1635, Aerial Assist
Today we went to NYU Poly‘s Library to watch the 2014 Kickoff and to pick up our Kit of Parts.
This year’s game is called Aerial Assist.
School not being open, we could not drop off the Kit of Parts. I’ll either bring it on Monday around 6 or give it to Gus who might be able to bring it earlier. After a first check it seems we’re only missing the two parts they told us we won’t have:
On Monday we need to:
To get access to the robot projects you need to:
Links:
Details about public key encryption.
Learn JAVA basics. As any other coding language basic, learn how to print output Hello World!
And then take your learning skills to a whole new level.
So lets start.
Required software: Download and install Java Development Kit. Download and install NetBeans. Steps:
To create an IDE project:
bin directory and typing ./netbeans.
Hello World App.helloworldapp.HelloWorldApp.
The project is created and opened in the IDE. You should see the following components:
HelloWorldApp open.
When you created this project, you left the Create Main Class checkbox selected in the New Project wizard. The IDE has therefore created a skeleton class for you. You can add the “Hello World!” message to the skeleton code by replacing the line:
// TODO code application logic here
with the line:
System.out.println("Hello World!"); // Display the string.
Optionally, you can replace these four lines of generated code:
/** * * @author */
with these lines:
/** * The HelloWorldApp class implements an application that * simply prints "Hello World!" to standard output. */
To compile your source file, choose Run | Build Main Project from the IDE’s main menu. Now that you have built the project, you can run your program.
From the IDE’s menu bar, choose Run | Run Main Project. The next figure shows what you should now see.
Slideshow of Team 1635