The Robots are...."twittering."

Thought you'd all like to know that the US FIRST FRC competitions have added a "twittering" component to the live streaming video of the competitions.  Its fun to see the comments scrolling along side the "live" matches.  Our team is also excited to see some matches being played, and scout other team strategies prior to our first competition in the middle of March.

If you're interested you can see video links of the Manchester, NH March 26-28th competition.

Enjoy!

This looks cool...a new feature from Google Labs.  Multiple inboxes at gmail AND the ability to send message from gmail that look like they originated from a different email account. this would definitely solve the dilemma for me of logging in and out of 4+ email accounts a day. I think I'll try it and let you know what I think after a few days/weeks.

Almost done...(or not!)

The "build" season for US FIRST's "First Robotics Challenge" is almost done. The Millerbots of Washburn High School will crate their robot on Tuesday and ship it off to their first competition. It's been a fun-filled, sometimes exasperating, adrenalin-rich, exhausting 6 weeks. There have been many 15 hour days when you consider arriving at school around 6;30am to prep for classes, attend meetings, and then end the day with robotics from 3:15 til 8, sometimes 9:00pm.

The good news is that we have accomplished the 3 main objectives of this year's build season. Design and build a 120 lb., 5 foot tall robot that drives, has an uptake conveyor system, and includes a hopper delivery system for scoring points. We plan to ship our robot on Tuesday without its "brain" so that we can continue to tweek our programming.