Research

It took us a long time to identify a problem that we want to chase down for a solution. After many white board and brainstorm sessions, we ended up with top three problems for each of which we would create an innovative solution. The final solution was gone through a voting process. Coaches and kids all agreed on our final solution. 

Teamwork Games

We had some fun with those teamwork related games. In two of these games, team members are assigned with different roles: one observer, two messengers, and one builder. The observer will see the model that is already built. Only the observer can see the model and he needs to describe what he observes to the first messenger, the first messenger then tell what he is being told to the second messenger. The second messenger then tells the builder. The builder then completes the build. At the end, we will compare between the original model and the model they built and see if the model is being built the way it should be. This is actually a communication test to the team. 

Each member can only see one side of the model. Then they  get together to  complete the mode build. The left one is the original model. The right one is what the team completed.

November Scrimmage

We went to the November Scrimmage on Friday November 16. It was a good opportunity to get our team out there and do some practice in a new environment, and also to see how other teams are doing. If we could learn some thing new, that would be extra. It turned out that it was a fun successful event. We realized that we have many areas that need to be improved on.

Team T-shirts are ordered

Eventually we submitted the purchase order for our team T-shirts. This is done from an online custom shirt site at http://www.spreadshirt.com. I've never done a custom T-shirt before so let us see.

Bowling mission

The bowling mission must be one of toughest missions in this 2012 FLL challenge. The team already spent two weeks on this mission. The run indeed needs to complete the cardio exercise, bowling, TV and two shopping bags. There are some issues to overcome, i.e. line follower. The team has learnt a lot during doing practice and programming. We are working on it and stay tuned.

Here is a video of this mission's practice.

Get to know SNB - Oscar

Hi there, my name is oscar and replacing johnny as the oldest person in the group and also the newest. So far I have only done one of the simplest challenges. But that's going to change soon.

-Oscar

Oscar is downloading a NXT program from his laptop to the robot by using a USB cable.

Line Follower Success!

Hi everyone, I am Johnny, and I have just finished fixing the line following program. It's a simple five-state line follower, and it was originally working fine until we rebuilt the robots. I figured out the problem, adjusted the program, and it works perfectly!

-Johnny