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FIX IT at the Tesla Interleague, Everett, WA

January 15, 2017

After seeing the robots from Pasteur’s Interleague Competition, we were a little nervous about today. However, when we got our robot to the practice field, found that our robot, Fermion, could collect and shoot particles extremely well. Unfortunately, since the practice field wasn’t complete (it only had one beacon and two Vuforia image targets), we couldn’t fully test autonomous.

Despite our best efforts, autonomous didn’t work this competition. For some reason, Vuforia couldn’t detect the image targets while we were driving towards the first beacon. It may have been the actual images and the way they were mounted on the playing field.  At least we'll have some time to figure it out before our next competition.

By the end of the qualifying matches we had won 3 matches, tied 1 match, and lost 1 match.  When added with our league scores, FIX IT was ranked 4th overall and was an Alliance Captain for the final elimination rounds!

Unfortunately, we had a series of problems in the semi-finals.  Our shooter broke in the first match, then the motor on our collector broke in the second match.  So we didn't advance to the finals.  

But...—we won the Connect Award and the 3rd place Inspire!  We’re going to the Washington State Championships!!!!

Congratulations to the Inspire Winner - 11104 Bearded Pineapples  and the Captain of the Winning Alliance - 3805 Atomic Robotics!

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To Seattle for the FTC Kickoff

Friday, September 9, 2016

Going down to Seattle for the FTC Kickoff event, we arrived early in order to visit the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. 

It was interesting to learn about all the various projects that the Foundation supports; we also added our own ideas for worthwhile projects; plus took a photo of the team:

The Foundation building is right next to the Seattle Centre, so we also had time to explore that area and see something of the Space Needle, the Science Fiction (EMP) Museum:

—and the Chihuly Glass Exhibits.

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Washington State Kickoff

Saturday, September 10, 2016

We were in Auburn, Washington, today, to see the release of this year's game Velocity Vortex. 

We were all impressed by the focus on autonomous scoring this year. 

Alec and Guy were excited that the use of Vuforia was so important for navigation. We've created a video series to help other teams learn how to use Vuforia with their robot.

The cap ball is an interesting addition, a game element that is bigger than a robot! After kickoff we went to the Team Swerve workshop and took part  in their strategy session. 

We are all very excited about this year's game, and can't wait for League competition.

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