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"I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life."
-Dean Kamen
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2009 News and Updates
April 29, 2009
- The team will be going to the WPI Battlecry X on Saturday
May 9th.
- The Website Team is pleased to announce that the website
has been awarded the 2009 Excellence Award for scoring an
eighty percent or more in the FIRST Website Competition.
- Team members are continuing to work on their Holonomic drive
train every Wednesday after school.
April 18, 2009
- We pulled the winning tickets for the Red Sox/Yankees raffle.
The first place prize which was a pair of tickets for the Red Sox/Yankees
game on April 25th went to J LaMorte of Walpole. The second place
prize which was a gift certificate to two local restaurants went
to K Perkins of Walpole.
- There is still time to buy the raffle tickets for the Billy Joel
concert. Contact Karin Riddle at kriddle946@aol.com
for details.
March 28, 2009
- Last weekend at the Philadelphia Regional we went undefeated until
the finals, where we were ultimately defeated. Although it would
have been nice to win just two more matches, we were very pleased
with the result. We extend our congratulations to all of the other
teams who won awards and are looking forward to seeing many of the
same faces at WPI Battlecry X in May.
March 11, 2009
- We made it to the semifinals in Boston and hope to do even better
in Philadelphia next weekend. After the qualifying rounds, we were
in 13th place out of the 53 teams that competed. We were glad to
receive the Motorola Quality Award which "celebrates machine robustness
in concept and fabrication." We also hope to compile videos and
pictures of our matches before we travel to the Philadelphia Regional
on March 19th.
February 17, 2009
- We have finished the final robot and are now in the process of
shipping it to the competition. Until the Boston Regional on March
5th, we will not be able to work on the final robot, but we can
practice and fine-tune the autonomous on the prototype. Here is
a picture of the final robot. Hope to see everyone in Boston!
February 7, 2009
- We have finished the prototype robot and are now working on the
competition robot. The programmers are fine tuning the autonomous
mode to make the robot follow the target by itself.
- Team HYPER 69 of Quincy invited us to a practice competition on
February 14th which should be pretty fun and useful.
January 22, 2009
- Today we got the robot to follow the other robot autonomously using
the camera. We continue to prototype our robot with an Archimedes
screw which elevates the game balls from the floor to the hopper.
Soon we will have more pictures and Youtube videos of matches from
past games.
January 17, 2009
- We have continued to prototype the Archimedes screw idea and
it's working pretty well. We also laid down more of the 'Regolith'
material in our shop so we can test the robot on this slippery
surface. The computer programmers are furthering their understanding
of the LabVIEW software which they will use to program the robot.
We have also have prototyped our robot chassis.
January 3, 2009
- We kicked off the season today and found out about this year's
game called Lunacy. The game description can be found here.
All day we brainstormed possible robot ideas for this year's season
and inspected our kit of parts.
December 18, 2008
- Today we continued working on our projects. The new controller
is coming together. We have new logo designs for our uniforms.
Also progress was made on our holonomic drivetrain robot, given
the name Stealth HDX. We also added a Scholarship
Page with the name, picture, and brief description of what
the winner did to earn the scholarship.
December 13, 2008
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We are in the process of brightening up our big
room. As we continue the process of redesign, we are getting excited
for the new competition. FIRST sent out an email with the game
hint on December 4, 2008. The clue is a picture of a fish and
can be found here.
The second game hint came from Bill's Blog and is a short poem
which can be read here.
Our Groups Pages have been updated and can be reached on the About
Us page.
December 4, 2008
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A lot has happened since the last post. Last week
we got the new rug, so today we were finally able to put all of
our "junk" back into the main room. Click here
to see us painting the room and what it looks like now with the
carpet. We are also continuing to work with the new robot controller
(we now have a grand total of four wires connected).
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Yesterday we received our "box" which
contains the new robot controller, yet we have not opened it. We
also extend congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Scott with their newborn
twins, William and Coleman. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
November 17, 2008
- The art design team finished painting their logos onto the walls
of our workspace.
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The Walpole RoboRebels are currently preparing for
this year's robotics season. There was a meeting today after school
and many new faces showed up, so this year is already proving to
be promising! Also, since the beginning of school, old and new members
alike have been busy painting our room at Plimpton. We will soon
have a new rug. The website team (as you may have noticed) has made
a completely new design for the website, but over the next few months
we hope to improve it even more. Stay tuned for an updated "Media"
section which should be available in a few weeks.
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