We won 1st place. :)

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Jason Garland

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Jun 2, 2012, 10:55:41 PM6/2/12
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dweiseth

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Jun 3, 2012, 2:16:25 PM6/3/12
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Impressive result, I wish I could stand with you, but b/c I bailed I can only salute you, impressive result for the team, you exceeded my expectations by a wide margin. I showed up in the afternoon but everything already completed, nuts!

I would say improve upon the result, but first is pretty much the top honors. Hats off for your perseverance against the odds and challenges facing the team with the truncated preparation time.

Pop the champagne and catch up on your sleep, see you all on the flip side.

Cheers & congratulations!

Jason Garland

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Jun 3, 2012, 2:20:31 PM6/3/12
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I should probably also mention that our software wasn't ready. We won because we were lucky. :)




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Paul Danset

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Jun 3, 2012, 2:38:44 PM6/3/12
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Well ... not as impressive as it sounds.  :)

We have our subsystems working, but we ran out of time integrating them altogether.  So we still need to complete our robot.  We definitely need to improve on our results.

One entry was powered by two wheel chair motors, 30+Amp motor controller, MacBook and Kinect had more functionality working.   But he found out (as we did early on) that Kinect doesn't work in direct sunlight (though it seemed to somewhat work in the shade).  No one touched a single pylon, but he came within a foot.  In my mind, he should have won.  

But our strategy to just move closest to the final pylon gave us the most points.  I suppose a win is a win, fair and square, but not a very satisfying one.  :)

David, I'd be happy to put your Galaxy Nexus back to factory condition, or flash it to the latest stock ROM, or unlock it / root it / put more fun stuff on it / etc.  Thank you very much for generously letting us use your phone.

Cheers


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Sea Techie

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Jun 3, 2012, 2:57:09 PM6/3/12
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All,

First of all, Congratulations to the team for contributions (big and small) to get to this point. Whether it was a win or not, it was an incredible effort till the very end.  Sometimes it does pay off to "show up" and just be smart about how to compete. Regardless, the effort needs to be acknowledged and team applauded for sticking to it.

I want to point out that nothing (not even the team, hardware, nor budget) existed 8 weeks ago, and the majority of the work was over the last 5-6 weeks (albiet only a few days a week where the entire team was even together) where everything took shape from a scratch start. Given that the subsystems are working, that is an incredible feat, and compare them to the SERIOUS budget invested (some with an order of magnitude in cost) in these robots we were competing against and the time they had to build their robot over the course of the year (or years), I think we did the best we could and it worked out.

We are never satisfied -- We will need to complete the remaining integration effort to get the path completed given the waypoints are captured. And there is the notion that we need to defend the title next year, I think we will likely be more prepared.

Great job, everyone!

Jon

Budi Mulyo

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Jun 3, 2012, 6:42:59 PM6/3/12
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Thank you for making this project possible. You guys are awesome!!

Also check out some pictures and videos here:
robomagellanbanner1.jpg

Shubham Shukla

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Jun 3, 2012, 7:30:46 PM6/3/12
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Just my $0.01: Not being satisfied is a good sign.

I really appreciate everyone's efforts specially Paul who came directly from a long/tiring trip and decided he would drive directly from the airport to Jason's place where we had a lot of fun staying up whole night trying to get everything integrated together. :)

Thanks all.
Shubham

Pat Tressel

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Jun 3, 2012, 10:40:06 PM6/3/12
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Whoa!  Hey, congratulations!
 
Would very much like to continue on with this.  Also would like to implement the polygon routing, since more general maps tend to specify regions (like buildings and streets) via polygons (see "Well-known text" on Wikipedia).
 
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Joe Justice

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Jun 4, 2012, 1:23:42 AM6/4/12
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CONGRATULATIONS!!!

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Budi Mulyo

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Jun 4, 2012, 11:54:28 AM6/4/12
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  • Hi Budi, Met you at Robothon/Robomagellon. Robots Felix and Minibob were my contribution to the event. Great day, good competition. We were discussing doing another autonomous competition in 3 months since there was so much forward progress made in order to make it to Robothon. Another competition would keep us on track and push us to meet some of our intended goals that didn't quite make it out of the box. What do you think? Would you and your friends be interested?


Thoughts?

Pat Tressel

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Jun 4, 2012, 12:25:40 PM6/4/12
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  • Hi Budi, Met you at Robothon/Robomagellon. Robots Felix and Minibob were my contribution to the event. Great day, good competition. We were discussing doing another autonomous competition in 3 months since there was so much forward progress made in order to make it to Robothon. Another competition would keep us on track and push us to meet some of our intended goals that didn't quite make it out of the box. What do you think? Would you and your friends be interested?


Thoughts?

Sounds good!  Maybe Xandon would like to meet up or work together before then...?

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Budi Mulyo

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Jun 4, 2012, 4:02:43 PM6/4/12
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On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Jason Rudolph wrote:

Congrats guys!

Budi Mulyo

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Jun 4, 2012, 4:04:46 PM6/4/12
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On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Michael Hasse wrote:
Woohoo!  Great job!  :):):)

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Budi Mulyo

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Jun 4, 2012, 4:05:58 PM6/4/12
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Budi Mulyo

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Jun 6, 2012, 1:20:46 PM6/6/12
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Check out the blog entry:
http://www.jigsawrenaissance.org/2012/06/we-won-1st-place/

Best wishes,,

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