2008 Championship Coverage
The Blue Alliance was at the 2008 Championship Event in Atlanta, GA, bringing you coverage of some of the interesting things going on down there. In this episode, we interview Anu Saha, a National Instruments engineer, about the recently-debuted 2009 control system.
We also talk to Paul Mailhot from Autodesk about Autodesk’s involvement with FIRST teams and their plans for the future, as well as a WPI student about the FIRST Technical Network, a flexible and open knowledge base for FIRST participants. Note that it may be better quality to go to the video on Vimeo directly.
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2008 Championship Matches Posted
The match videos for the Einstein Field at the 2008 FIRST Robotics Challenge Championship have been posted! You can rewatch the final matches of the 2008 season over and over again.
We’re working to get the rest of the divisional video online, so stay tuned!
No commentsFIRST’s Top Ten
Today at the Championship Event in Atlanta, FIRST presented their “Top Ten Indicators You Have Shifted Into FIRST Overdrive,” in the same style that David Letterman does. They do this every year, and often the jokes they make are community cultural references or related to the year’s game.
This year, coming in at number four…
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Thanks to Jeff Pahl for the image!
We’re honored to be considered on the same level as Guitar Hero!
Congratulations to all the teams that competed this season, especially those who are on their way home from the Championship today!
No commentsMatch Results via Text Message and E-Mail
You may have recently seen that The Blue Alliance will be posting live match updates to Twitter from now on. The same change to the code base also enables another feature - live match updates via e-mail. And guess what? A phone has an e-mail address at which it can receieve text messages. If you can’t make it to the Championship and want to follow along with your team, or want to stay up-to-date on another team, this service will text message you after each match that that team plays in.
It’s in beta (there have been no events to test it with yet), so I am not sure how it is going to work out. Sending an e-mail takes a fairly long amount of time once you have to send a few hundred or thousand at once. For this reason, I am going to slowly phase in people as they register. When you sign up, the system will tell you you are verified, but I am going to leave all subscriptions disabled, then turn them on a few at a time during the Championship as I see the system can handle it. I’ll do this first-come-first-serve, but if things aren’t working out you might not get any text messages at all. Thanks to your help testing though, we ought to be able to roll this out fully-fledged for next year’s competitions!
Also, since it’s in beta, if receiving text messages cost you money, you may want to be wary. While I have tested everything and it seems to be behaving properly, I wouldn’t want something to break and you to get 100 text messages (there are a couple hundred matches played during the Championship…) that you have to pay for.
If you want to sign up for e-mail or text message notifications, go to http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/notifications/ and fill out the form. You may find e-mail formats for various carriers on Wikipedia. The final interface will make this easier, but it’s beta, so I haven’t written it yet.
No commentsMatch Results via Twitter
I’ve been doing a little bit of work on how The Blue Alliance imports match results, and now each match gets posted to Twitter upon it’s entry in The Blue Alliance database! If you are a twitter user, you can follow TheBlueAlliance and get all your match update goodness that way! Every match from every official event will be posted.
http://twitter.com/thebluealliance
Enjoy!
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