G9 and FIRST Robotics teams #1507 & #378 sponsoring a Special inside Tour and Demo of Historic Lockport LOCKS and Mill Race on Tuesday June 7th. The tour starts at 5 pm at the Erie Canal Discovery Center (#1) for a presentation about the locks and restoration. After the presentation, a demo of the locks (#2) will be given along with a visit to the Erie Canal Museum and special tour of the Mill Race on south side of canal.
Those interested are meeting for dinner after tour at about 6:45 pm @ LOCK 34 Bar & Grill @ 80 Main Street in Lockport. Please make tour reservations with Sue Vasko, and let her know names of those for tour AND also whether you plan to join us for Dinner afterwards (just ordering from the menu).
Please provide your email and phone contact information also. G9 membership is not required for this event, and robotics team and family members also welcome.
Sue Vasko’s email: susan.vasko@us.mahle.com
Cell Phone: 716-432-7358
Work Phone: 716-439-3155
Reservations requested by 11am Monday, June 6th if possible.
Map Legend:
The Warlocks will be competing at the Finger Lakes Regional from March 24th to March 26th. After our semi-finalist finish at the Greater Pittsburgh regional earlier in the season, the Warlocks are looking forward to improving at the Finger Lakes Regional. We have made several changes and fixes to both our code and robot, including improving our Autonomous and repairing our damaged arm/collector.
The regional event will take place in the Gordon Field House at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. More than 40 teams will be in attendance, including several winners and finalists from earlier regionals. Make sure to check out the webcast and event results pages listed below in order to keep up with the Warlocks as we compete throughout the weekend.
Webcast: www.thebluealliance.com/gameday
Event Results:
Qualification Match Schedule/Results
Playoff Match Schedule/Results
Rankings
Awards
*Note* Links may not be active before the event starts
Photo courtesy CALU Communications
The Warlocks competed at the Greater Pittsburgh Regional on March 10-12. We faced some challenges with the robot, but made steady progress through the weekend and ended up being chosen to join the #3 alliance. We made it to the semi-final level before we were eliminated.
While the Warlocks didn’t bring home any awards this weekend, we worked out a lot of kinks, and will be better prepared to compete at Fingerlakes in two weeks.
The Warlocks will be competing at the Greater Pittsburgh Regional from March 10th-12th. This is the first of our two regional competitions this season, where we will be competing for a spot at the World Championship in St. Louis. Below you can find everything you need to follow The Warlocks as we compete for a spot at the World Championships at The Greater Pittsburgh Regional.
The Greater Pittsburgh regional competition is located in California University of Pennsylvania’s Convocation center. The address of the venue is listed below. Our Itinerary for the trip and any other important info will be posted soon.
Convocation Center
California University of Pennsylvania
California, PA 15419
March 4-7, 2015
The webcast for the Greater Pittsburgh Regional will be available on the blue alliance, along with several other community run sites for aggregating webcasts for all official FRC Events. We recommend using the blue alliance, as they are typically the most reliable.
Unfortunately, FIRST doesn’t have a standardized method of webcasting their events, which leaves each individual event responsible for running and maintaining their own webcast. It is possible that the community run webcast could experience lag and/or technical difficulties throughout the competition weekend.
Below is a direct link to GameDay, which is the name of The Blue Alliance’s webcast portal. To watch the Greater Pittsburgh Regional, hover over the webcasts link in the top left and drag “Greater Pittsburgh” into one of the viewing panes below.
Delphi Elite, Team 48, is providing the video stream. It can be found directly at http://delphielite.com/2016-greater-pittsburgh-regional/
There are many different sources for match schedules and results, but the only official source is from FIRST themselves. Below are links to the official FIRST event result pages for the Greater Pittsburgh Regional. In addition to the official event pages below, you can also find match schedules, rankings, and scores at thebluealliance.com
Qualification Match Schedule/Results
Playoff Match Schedule/Results
Rankings
Awards
*Note* Links may not be active before the event starts
(Posted by Kierstan on Facebook. It was so awesome, I wanted to share here…)
Build season is officially over. I ended build season by putting the tag on the bag, which is a pretty big deal. I made Dean’s list. I learned to weld. I made parts by myself for the robot. I learned so much and honestly, thank you Evan for pushing me and being hard on me. We updated the teams pride and joy, Zeus, which they used our ball collecting idea for the robot. Pulling the robot down the hallway in the bag honestly made me so upset. The past stressful six weeks flew by and everything we worked on is now in a plastic bag. I didn’t think it was possible to have a 16 inch robot but we do and I’m amazed at what we accomplished. Competition is in 15 days though and I’m super excited! Let’s go Warlocks! And yes, I just got home from a 15 hour school day.
Sealing the deal (bag)
Pride in a job well done!
Off to storage.
The Warlocks are looking towards a strong finish as we end our 5th week of the build season. The build team has been finishing up the shooter and the lift for our robot!
The CAD team has officially finished the CAD model of our robot! The CAD team is now spending their time helping design any last minute additions to the robot.
The PR team has started filming and editing the chairman’s video. They have also been hard at work planning their Chairman’s presentation, and have made all the goodie bags to pass out at the regional!
The programming team has continued their work from last week, continuing to wire, work on the shooter’s speed control, and fine tuning the VI.
The Warlocks have made great progress in the past 5 weeks! We look forward to the final week of build season, and competing at the regionals!
Week 4 has been another productive week for The Warlocks! Our build team continued to work on the field elements, as they finished building our castle. The build team has also been busy powder coating parts of our robot, making sure our robot looks as good as it’s going to perform!
The CAD team has been working towards finishing detailing elements of our robot. Our rookie members have been working diligently to help our CAD leader in anything he needs.
The public relations team has sent in the Chairman’s essay and the short answers, and has finished the script for the video! Packing lists have started for the regionals!
The programming team has started to wire our robot! They also worked on speed control for our robot, and fine tuned the robot’s VI.
As we start to reach the final stretch, The Warlocks continue all their hard work on making this year’s robot, the best yet!
I noticed this weekend, when I wanted to upload some photos of the team I took, that the link to the photo gallery was not working.
I dug into it and found out that an upgrade to the hosting site made the gallery stop working. Simply upgrading the gallery software to the newest version should have fixed it. As it goes with most web site stuff, it wasn’t that simple. I tried several times to repair and upgrade it, to no avail. I finally made a new installation on another domain, got it working, and copied the whole thing back to the Warlocks site. Mission accomplished.
During that process, the hosting company decided to shut down their MySQL web interface for maintenance, further delaying the process. Then my internet stopped connecting to any site at the hosting company. I could surf the web anywhere else, but any of my domains refused to work. It finally returned after I did a complete shutdown of my router, DSL modem, and several computers, but I still think it is coincidence and there was a problem within the hosts system, because I could not reach our site using my cell phone data either. I only had intermittent connectivity through a VPN proxy.
But that’s probably more than anyone wants to know. The photo gallery is back and working better than ever now. I’m looking forward to seeing many more photos of our team throughout the season. The photos are an important part of the team history and go back to the very first year of the team. I’m very happy that we have been able to preserve that history.
The Warlocks have had a very productive week three! The build team has been hard at work continuing to build the field elements. Meanwhile, the base for our robot has come in and has been riveted by a couple of our team members. The build team has also continued to work on different shooters and climbing mechanisms for the robot.
The CAD team has almost finished drawing our robot! While our veteran members were hard at work on the robot, some of our rookie members have been working on the layout for our pits this year.
The programming team has been prioritizing what they want their program to do. They have been contemplating how many cameras they will be capable of putting on our robot.
The public relations team has continued their hard work on the Chairman’s Award Essay. They have also been coming up with a script for the video for the Chairman’s Award as well. One of our rookie members has started working on the Media and Technology Innovation Award!
Our rookie members have really learned a lot in the past weeks, and have started using the training they received from the veteran members and the mentors to good use.
The Warlocks have come a long way since week one, and build season isn’t even over yet! We can’t wait to see our progress in the coming weeks.
The Warlocks have been up to some great things in week two! This week, our build team has continued to prototype different aspects of the robot. They’ve talked about different designs for our robots shooter, and eventually we decided as a team on our final design. The build team has also been working hard on making accurate replicas of the different defenses, such as rough terrain and the ramparts.
The CAD team has been hard at work attempting to finalize the base design. They’ve also been making attempts to fit our shooter in the size constraints.
Our programming team has worked diligently on vision tracking, and has continued to work on driving straight.
The public relations team has been hard at work! They’ve been working on the Chairman’s Award essay, as well as the Chairman’s Award video. They’ve also been busy taking pictures of the team, and thinking about team spirit ideas.
In the meantime, our entire team has learned about this year’s scouting app! Our scouting mentor took the time to train all the students on both the basics and the specifics on how to scout for this year’s game.
As always, the mentors and veteran students have continued to train and help the new students on our team in their respective fields.
Overall, The Warlocks have had a productive week in all fields. We hope that next week is even better, as we continue to learn and grow in all fields of FIRST Robotics!
