In our second game against Penn, both teams came out strong, scoring a goal apiece. Following that we scored an own goal (the first one in over a year). But Penn surprised everyone with an own goal of their own to tie the game. We had a promising drive at the end of the game, but it was too late and time expired with the score 2-2. We are playing again at 6 for our second match against Miami.
We sorted out our battery issues for our second game and managed to score two very nice and deliberate goals. Still improving for our second two games today!
We lost our first game to Penn 1-2. Due to the goalie not having a charged battery at the beginning of both halves, Penn took advantage of an empty net to score twice. We scored once in the second half as well.
With a new battery plan, we are taking on Miami at 11. Tune into the live stream to check it out!
Check out http://robocup2013.webs.com/ to find out what’s going on this weekend
The crew of Serenity will take the field together for the first time on Saturday. They seem pretty excited.
All of our robots posing for a picture!
The field has been flattened and the lines have gone on. Now we can start prepping for the US Open this coming weekend. This years field is essentially two of last year’s put next to each other. That’s a lot of new things for our robots to see.
Today marked the beginning of the US Open. With help from Bowdoin facilities and housekeeping, the field for this year’s US Open has been rolled out. As you can see from the picture, there are quite a few wrinkles. Over the next few days the carpet will flatten (maybe get a stream cleaning) and the four sections will be joined together. The fifth section, in the background of the picture, will serve as a practice field. More updates to come!
Someone (aka Professor Chown) noted that the blog has been pretty empty lately. Here’s what we’ve been doing:
1. New robots! Our newest teammates are Nao H25s with working hands! Now that we also have Kaylee, Inara, Vera, and Simon, we have almost all of Serenity’s crew on our team.
Kaylee, Inara, Vera, and Simon!
2. New goals! The league rules changed, so our goals for this year look like…
New goal for this year's US Open
They’re bigger than last year’s goals and now have black nets, which is great for vision. Also, these nets won’t get tangled on lost robots who want to hang out in the goal. The field itself will be much bigger as well, with five robots per team.
3. New code architecture! Well, almost. Our message passing architecture is still a work in progress, but we’ll have it up and running for the US Open:
Almost there...
The US Open starts Friday, April 19th here at Bowdoin. We’re pretty excited to finally try out all of our new things.
A bit belated, but here’s a link to our family weekend videos. The lighting conditions were terrible, but we still managed to see very well and played some pretty decent soccer.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJOPWrClEzSmeEJ7tXAmcccCYMt31R8yi
Enjoy
Check out our code at github.com/northern-bites/nbites or click the wiki tab to get some more information!
Meeting Wednesday 8pm Searles 120. We will have food!