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Over the weekend of March 5-6, we competed in the Granite State District Event in Windham, NH. We were one of 39 teams competing. Many of the teams had good robots, including ours. The competition was a lot of fun. After qualifications, we were selected to join the 4th seeded alliance with 319 Big Bad Bob and 6328 Mechanical Advantage. At the end of the day, we were eliminated in the quarter finals after two matches. Our team also won the Imagery Award - it was a great event!
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Our robot for this season is named Two-Face because like last year with Tumbler, our team is theming our robots after Batman, the Caped Crusader. We came up with the name Two-Face because the robot’s shooter can shoot both ways, and Two-Face is a Batman villain.
Two-Face is capable of doing everything in the game such as retrieving gears, placing gears, climbing, playing defense, and shooting. The main concept for our robot’s design is to hold and place gears. Based on what we learned at the Granite State District Event, we are working on some adjustments to the geometry of the gear holder.
Two-Face can climb the rope to the airship, but is not successful 100% of the time so we are working out some kinks on the climber. Two-Face does play good defense because of its size, weight, and tank drive. Our intake works pretty well, which the has a capacity of 60 “fuel” pieces. The intake is made from a hex shaft with surgical tubing that can stretch. The shooter is capable of shooting, and we are working on fine tuning the accuracy. Our robot is stylized with black powder coating paint along with neon logos.
Fun Fact: Our practice robot is named Harvey Dent, Two-Face's alter ego.
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Upcoming Southern NH District Event
Next weekend is our second official district event! The Southern NH District event will take place at Bedford High School on Saturday, March 25 and Sunday, March 26. All of our competitions are free to attend.
Come see Two-Face in action, check out our pit, and cheer our team on in the stands!
If you can’t make it to our event in person - make sure to follow along on Facebook and Twitter. The event will be webcast at: https://www.twitch.tv/nefirst_blue
You can also download The Blue Alliance or FRC Spyder apps to follow along on your phone!
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Matches this season consist of 6 different robots (3 on each alliance) carrying gears to drive the airship rotors and shooting balls (fuel) into the boilers to generate steam for the airships. Bots carrying gears have to deliver them to the airships on opposite ends of the field. There are human pilots on each airship who lift the gear onto the airships and place on pegs to drive the airship rotors. When a bot shoots into the boiler, the boiler makes pressure. Every time the boiler reaches 40 Kpa, the airship fills up and that team gets 1 ranking point. At the last 30 seconds of the match the pilots drop ropes for the robots to climb for the airship takeoff. Each successful climb is worth 50 points. The highest score was 445 for the Red Alliance at the Granite State District Event during a Semifinals match.
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IMAGERY AWARD in honor of Jack Kamen
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At the Granite State District Event we won the Imagery Award! This award “celebrates the attractiveness in engineering and outstanding visual aesthetic integration from the machine to the team appearance”. Our team’s branding was consistent across our team t-shirts, robot, buttons, and judge packets. New this year were Team 238 judge packets, which included the business plan, a description of our robot, business cards, a button with the team logo, and custom M&M's with our team colors and logo. We also won the award because of our robot’s powder coated frame that integrated our team colors. For fun, in addition to the team logo button, we also created specialty event buttons featuring our team members.
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The meeting on the night after every competition, we have what is called a Post Mortem. A Post Mortem is when the group discusses the positives and areas for improvement from the event. For example, we decided that we need to change the open top of the robot so that gears won’t go inside, but find a way to close it off while allowing fuel to be gathered. Another example that we decided we didn’t need to change the intake because it worked really really well.
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Thank YOU to all our wonderful sponsors and supporters!
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