You go Danbury’s RoboticsTeam! Danbury Robotics Team 5150 was amazing in the Vex Robotics World Championship. E-team finished 55 out of 86 in the Math division. They had lots of programming issues at the beginning, the robot would work autonomously and then driver control would cut out or not work at all. A combination of order of operations and a misplaced = sign in the code was one fault, plus a couple of other things made for a rough start. However, E-bot got better as the tournament went on, winning 4 out of their last 5 matches. D-team finished 23rd out of 86 in the Arts division. As the tournament went on, friction was developing within one side of the robot, causing the motors on that side to brown out or stop working for 5 seconds at a time, once so severely that a winnable match was lost. We believe this was partially due to the robot, while being inspected by TSA was bent, probably when they shoved it back in the shipping container (it was wrapped in TSA tape, and the lock was gone). Nick Passaro, one of the founding members of Team 5150D from 2011and now with the NYIT college team came over to say hello, and jumped in with some expertise, and with a partial rebuild of that side they were back in business. D-team unfortunately lost their last match 59-58, when our driver went to push a large ball into the goal zone with 3 seconds left, the angle was wrong and flipped over. If they won that match, they would have more than likely been picked for an alliance to move to the quarterfinals, they would have been in 11th place. However, alliance selection is weird at Worlds, teams ranked 44th and seventy-something were picked instead. Our friends from Manchester HS were ranked 14th, 8-2 in their division, 8th in the world for Vex programming skills, and were not picked. D-team finished 14th in the world for Vex driving skills, an excellent statistic which we can carry into next year. It was an excellent experience and an honor to compete at Worlds. Thanks go out to my chaperones Jim Folino, Michael Hyatt, Michael Staib, Ginny McKinstry, Doron Efrat, and Jody Hiatt. Without them, there is no trip. I am looking forward to going home after school for a change! Thanks again everyone for all your support! Erik Savoyski Team 5150 Advisor
Posted on: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 16:15:07 +0000
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