After kickoff everything becomes crazy and everyone is constantly running around with their heads cut off. The team has held many brain storming sessions and had an awesome rules reading party. There have also been various other meetings to starting thinking about how we are going to get the robot to other competitions and how […]
FIRST Team 501 made it into the New Hampshire News section of the Union Leader, for the 2012 FRC kickoff. Our group who was at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), which inculded a few mentors and four students. Their picture is of them looking at the goals for this year’s game Rebound Rumble. The picture […]
Brainstorming started off with us splitting up into small groups and going into individual conference rooms to read the rules. Once we read the rules we came together to start our brainstorming as a group. The group started going over what we wanted the bot to do. Some designs came out in today’s brainstorming session but we tried […]
January 7th, FIRST Team 501 met and watched the NASA’s broadcast of the unveiling of the 2012 game. Rebound Rumble, this year’s game, is similar to basketball, and robots must score points by putting foam basketballs through hoops. Bonus points can be obtained by robots balancing on angled ramps. Many of us were excited to […]
On Saturday December 10th, several Team 501 students went to Pembroke Academy in Pembroke, NH to attend a Programming and controlling the cRIO workshop. At the workshop, WPI’s Brad Miller showed off some new features in the 2012 FRC programming library for Java and C++. Mentors and students got to ask questions and see a […]
Team 501 participated in the Christmas parade in Manchester this year. This year we built a frame out of PBC pipes that we decorated with Christmas lights. We also decorated the robot with lights. The final touch was three giant candy canes that we hung from the PBC pipes. After the robot was decorated, the […]
The Cash Calendar sales were very successful. Cash calendars are a fundraiser in which people purchase a calendar for the month of January and a name is picked out for each day in the month of January. Every day of January has a cash prize of various amounts. Our first sale was successful at selling […]
Team 501 was selling cash calendars at Shaw’s on November 5th and November 13th. The cash calendar sale is a fundraiser that Team 501 has been doing for many years and by far is our biggest fundraiser. On November 5th a group of team members were telling Shaw’s customers about the team and about robotics […]
3:39 PM: Before we end this live blog, we’d thought we share some pictures from today’s event. Enjoy the photos and thanks for following along with us today. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and we’ll see you next year. 2:25 PM: We lost our second elimination match by a hair 39-38. We hung […]
This past Saturday, members of Team 501 attended the first annual TEDx AmoskeagMillyard. This was a local TED event, where 100 invitees got to hear from 14 different local speakers. The theme of the event was “The Unexpected” and each speaker shared their own personal views or encounters with something unexpected. FIRST founder Dean Kamen, […]