http://www.thebluealliance.net/blog Tips and tutorials for everyone interested in competitive robotics. Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:49:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.thebluealliance.net/blog/2008/04/27/2008-championship-coverage/ 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! http://www.thebluealliance.net/blog/2008/04/21/2008-championship-matches-posted/ 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 ... http://www.thebluealliance.net/blog/2008/04/20/firsts-top-ten/ 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 ... http://www.thebluealliance.net/blog/2008/04/11/match-results-via-text-message-and-e-mail/ 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 ... http://www.thebluealliance.net/blog/2008/04/09/match-results-via-twitter/ One of the things I have personally wanted for a while was a way to look up match listings and team information easily during events. A laptop is kind of a clunky solution, and viewing full size pages on my phone is awful. You can look up past events, find teams' ... http://www.thebluealliance.net/blog/2008/04/04/tba-mobile-launched/ Our webcast and video archiving for the 2008 Boston Regional was a tremendous success! To view video of special guest speakers, including Steve Wozniak, Helen Greiner, The Blue Man Group, and more, click here!. Match results and video can be found here. Thanks to the Boston Regional Planning Committee for putting ... http://www.thebluealliance.net/blog/2008/03/31/boston-coverage-online/ Divergentdave wrote a Greasemonkey script to auto convert when someone writes "Team ####" in a Chief Delphi post to be a link to the corresponding team page on The Blue Alliance. Installation Get or use Mozilla Firefox. Install Greasemonkey. It will make you restart Firefox. Click the link to divergentdave's Chief Delphi TBA Autolinker ... http://www.thebluealliance.net/blog/2008/03/18/chief-delphi-tba-autolinker-script/ Here are some exports from our Google Analytics account showing traffic as Competition Season ramps up! We've pushed over 150,000 page views to just under 10,000 users! Our traffic this year is already higher than it was for Nationals last year. I wonder what the Wednesday-before-Nats traffic surge will look like ... http://www.thebluealliance.net/blog/2008/03/11/some-statistics-2/ At the end of the first week of competition, the combined efforts of the community have resulted in 294 videos of matches on The Blue Alliance, including the entirety of the Midwest Regional, the New Jersey Regional, and the St. Louis Regional. Special thanks to those who recorded and helped ... http://www.thebluealliance.net/blog/2008/03/05/week-1-video-status-report/