The Blue Alliance

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 […]

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!

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…

Thanks to […]

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 […]

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 […]