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Posted by Anna on April 2, 2010

One more day left of the MN regionals! Aaaack.

Actually we were doing relatively well today in our later matches; we scored quite a few times and autonomous mostly works (those chains on the goals are really frustrating though). The big problem right now is that the plexiglass on one of our toughboxes pretty much completely shattered so we'll have to remount a new one tomorrow which we'll have to take from the practice mecanum bot in the workshop tomorrow. So that'll be slightly hectic, but necessary if we want a robot that can do more that sit and look pretty on the field. But other than that bit the robot was cooperating. We had some problems earlier on because of various technical mishaps, including a jaguar going weird on us, the analog jumper falling out, etc etc, but now everything (except the toughbox) is pretty much secured and ready for the matches tomorrow.

We won best website again! Yayyyy Evan!

Also, Dean Kamen was here today, which was very exciting. He signed a bunch of people's shirts and talked to a bunch of teams (including ours yay) and made a speech for the crowd (at least I think he did, but I didn't really know what was going on because I was preoccupied in our super skinny and awkward pit).

I'm sure there's a lot more interesting information that I could talk about, but I'm kind of brain-dead and I still need to work on fine tuning the autonomous code again.

Anna