BU Workshop

The Saturday Meeting and Workshops went well, with veteran and rookie teams in attendance. Our thanks to Gary Garber of the BU Academy and FIRST Senior Mentor Steve Cremer for arranging the days activities! The presentations are linked below, as well as RobotC sample code.

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FTC Team Meeting and Workshops on Saturday, January 10 2009, 12:00 – 3:00 PM

[The doors will be open by 11 AM and if you like we can start informally at that time, but we will schedule any presentations to start after 12.]

We are sorry if the cancellation of this weekend’s FTC scrimmage has caused problems. In place of the scrimmage this Saturday, there will be an informal meeting to share ideas and strategies for the 2008 FTC challenge. Members of new and veteran teams are welcome to attend. Included will be time for a Q&A Forum.

All members of local teams are invited to this opportunity to collaborate on plans for this year's challenge: FACE OFF. Please bring any robots you have constructed whether they are working or otherwise. We will have discussions which focus on software as well as hardware along with team strategy. Please come and meet members of other teams who will be competing this season. Bring your gracious professionalism, your ideas and problems to share and solve.

There will be a choice of two topics for formal presentations. Let us know which of these is of primary interest. Suggestions are also be welcome.

1. The FTC Tournament Experience - for rookie teams, describing what an FTC competition entails from start to finish.

2. FTC/Tetrix software environments compared - describing and contrasting the NXT/G, LabVIEW and RobotC environments, with a more detailed follow-up on RobotC.

We will meet at the Lounge [W. Bradford Ingalls Engineering Resource Center] on the first floor of the Engineering Research Annex (ERA), 48 Cummington St (1st Floor), Boston, MA. Directions can be found at http://www.bu.edu/maps/ Or the Center web page at http://www.bu.edu/eng/ingalls/. Parking is available not only on the street, but also in nearby garages and lots. School is not in session so there will not be a problem driving there but the T is also an option.

Closest T Stop: Boston University East Station and closest parking: Warren Towers Garage (Approx $8) and at meter on the street.

For more information, contact:

Gary Garber Gary_Garber@buacademy.org 617-353-9000 Cell: 781-454-5742

Please RSVP to scremer@usfirst.org or ggarber@bu.edu and let us know what topics we should be prepared to cover.

Saturday January 10th - Boston University Academy FIRST Tech Challenge Workshop

We will host an FTC Workshop from 12 noon to 3PM. For those of you who have been to FRC Team 246 lab, this is the same building. Our lab is in the basement. The workshop will be in the Ingalls Resource Center, which is on the first floor of that building. There is street parking available. Bring quarters as the Boston Parking Authority will ticket. You can also park in lots on campus for $8 The front door of the building will be locked. To gain access to the building, call our laboratory phone.

From an external line, call 617-358-3854. If you do not have a cell phone, directly across the street from the building is a blue telephone on a pole. From the blue telephone, dial 8-3854 to have a direct line to our lab.

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Last modified: 08/24/10