It has been a long five weeks since the 2011 FRC challenge was released. Since then, FIRST Team 604 has been working hard on designing, refining, and now machining and assembling our robot. We have posted a few pictures of the past two weeks below.
Mentoring FIRST Team 2135 at one of our machine shops.
Finalizing the minibot design.
Our finished and assembled 2011 transmissions!
It’s been two weeks since the beginning of the 2011 FRC Season. For the past week, FIRST Team 604 has been prototyping manipulator designs, working hard on refining and perfecting our design. Photos from this week have been posted below.
FIRST Team 604 working on the kit bot.
Our 2011 Transmisison Plates!
Here Comes the Sun!
Its officially been one week since the start of the 2011 FRC season. Over the past seven days, FIRST Team 604 has been hard at work designing and prototyping various robot designs. Some photos from this week have been posted below.
Working on programming the robot with LabView.
Building the Grid
Scoring a Vertical Logo!
Yesterday, FIRST released the 2011 game, LogoMotion!
Robots manipulate inner tubes shaped as triangles, circles, and squares — the elements of the FIRST logo — to hang them on a grid. It is played on a flat 27′ x 54′ carpeted field by two alliances of three teams each. Each 2 minute and 15 second match begins with a 15 second Autonomous period where robots hang ‘Ubertubes’ on the grid to score extra points. Any piece scored on a peg with an Ubertube receives double points, and a row with a complete FIRST logo earns an additional doubling of points. During the final ten seconds robots can deploy a ‘minibot’ which is created out of the FTC kit of parts or similar items to race to the top of four individual poles to earn 30 points for the first one up, 20 for the second, 15 for third, and 10 for fourth.
FIRST Team 604 after volunteering at Kickoff!
FIRST has just released the second game hint for the 2011 FRC Challenge.
2nd Game Hint for 2011
What could it mean? Join the discussion on Chief Delphi here.
FIRST has released the first game hint for the 2011 FRC Challenge!
1st Game Hint for the 2011 FRC Season
What could it mean? Join the discussion on Chief Delphi here!
Team 604 finished off the extremely successful 2010 FIRST Robotics Competition Breakaway season today, while starting another at the 2010 California Robot Games, an annual off season competition hosted by the WRRF. We were the runner up for the AMD CAD Award, as well as having Mrs. Arrington being recognized as the Mentor of the Year.
After four wins, two losses and one tie in the qualification rounds, our team seeded fourth, and moved up to third and invited Team 1868 from NASA Ames and Girl Scouts of Northern California and Team 668 from Pioneer High School to join our alliance. We lost our first match by one point, won the second, tied the third, and lost our fourth by one point once again.
Many thanks to our alliance partners, Team 846 from Lynbrook High School for hosting the event, and all of the volunteers at CalGames! We will be back next year!
Our videos will be on Youtube and our website shortly.
Our Team
Our AMD CAD Award
Our robot and drive team during quarterfinals
Our team’s most successful season in our history so far came to a conclusion today at the 2010 FIRST World Championship Event.
We were placed in the Archimedes division, arguably the toughest and most stacked of the four divisions at the Championship Event. Despite this, after ten qualification matches we were the only team in our division to go undefeated with 8 wins and 2 ties, ranking us 6th out of 87 teams — the highest our team has ever seeded at the Championship Event. After choosing the team we won the Sacramento Regional with — rookie Team 3256 the WarriorBorgs — and the 2010 Championship Chairman’s Award Winner — Team 341 Miss Daisy — to join our alliance, we went on to compete in the elimination matches.
As the 6th seeded team, we went up against the 3rd seeded team, a powerhouse alliance of teams 1124, 968, and 2854. We won the first match 16 to 10, but unfortunately lost the second with a close 6 to 9, tied the third 8 to 8, and finally lost the fourth in another close match 10 to 12.
Despite this abrupt end to our season, our team is extremely proud of what we’ve accomplished during the 2009-2010 season, totaling ten awards since the 2009 CalGames, including the FIRST Triple crown at a single regional — Regional Chairman’s, Regional Champion, and Woodie Flowers — as well as triple qualifying for the FIRST Championship Event. We are also really glad to have made many new friends within the FIRST community, especially Team 3256, with whom we hope to continue our relationship for long time. We hope that many of the lessons we’ve learned, friendships we’ve made, and accomplishments we’ve achieved will continue to help better Team 604, and in turn help us better reach out into our community.
The 2009-2010 season has ended. But since here at Leland Robotics, robotics is year-round, and there is no time to rest! The 2010-2011 season starts right now!
Go Team 604!
Team 604 with our mentors and parents!
Following the Silicon Valley Regional, our team worked even harder to try and improve for the Sacramento Regional, held at UC Davis. After twelve qualification matches, our team seeded first out of 38 teams — the highest team 604 has ever seeded. We also had the most CoopertitionTM points, earning us the CoopertitionTM Award.
During the alliance selections, we picked the second seeded team, Team 3256 from Valley Christian High School, a team we started and mentored this season, and Team 2761, a second-year team from Clovis North High School. After gliding through the quarterfinals and semifinals undefeated, our alliance found ourselves against our toughest competition yet, the alliance of teams 2122, 2035, and 1835. After four intense, action-packed matches, winning the first, losing the second, tying the third, and finally winning the fourth, our team, along with teams 3256 and 2761, became the new Sacramento Regional Champions!
Furthermore, our mentor Mrs. Arrington was honored to receive the Woodie Flowers Award for her outstanding ability to lead, inspire, and empower her students. Congratulations, Mrs. Arrington!
To top it all off, our team won the Regional Chairman’s Award, FIRST’s most prestigious award, for the third time. This award honors teams that inspire “greater levels of respect and honor for science and technology” (www.usfirst.org).
Now, after winning the Engineering Inspiration Award at the Silicon Valley Regional and the Regional Champion and Chairman’s Award at the Sacramento Regional, we have qualified three times for the the FIRST Championship Event held in Atlanta, Georgia from April 15-17! We’re excited to compete, and we hope to see you there!
Congratulations to Mrs. Arrington for winning the Woodie Flowers Award!
Our team at the 2010 Sacramento Regional
2010 Sacramento Regional Champions with teams 3256 and 2761
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