2013 FRC kickoff workshop schedule for vancouver washington
1. Hosted by Teams 2471 * 2517 * 1510
th
January 5
Vancouver, WA
2. Hosted by Teams 2471 * 2517 * 1510
Location
Evergreen High School, 14300 Northeast 18th Street, Vancouver, WA 98684
Kickoff Agenda
Evergreen High School Doors open: 6:00 A.M.
Local Kickoff Videos Begin: 6:50 A.M.
Local Kickoff Speakers Begin: 7:05 A.M.
FRC Game Reveal Broadcast Begins: 7:30 A.M.
FRC Game Reveal Broadcast Ends: 9:15 A.M.
Kit of Parts Pickup: 9:15 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.
Workshops: 9:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.
Lunch Break: 12:00 P.M. - 12:30 P.M.
Final Workshop: 12:30 P.M. - 1:30 P.M.
NOTE: Food or beverages will be on sale in the registration and kit pick up area. Cash Only.
PLEASE, NO FOOD OR BEVERAGES IN THE AUDITORIUM.
Registration
You need Consent and Release Form filled out for each student and adult team member in
attendance. You will need all of them to register in the morning when you arrive (which is
required to pick up your KoP). Also remember that members younger than 18 must have their
parent or legal guardian sign the form as well. There will be volunteers there to help you with the
registration process. At registration you will receive the very important Kit of Parts (KoP) receipt
paper. Please treat this as gold. It will be required for the KoP (Kit of Parts). No receipt. No KoP.
No exceptions.
Where should I park?
All attendees should park in the east parking lot of Evergreen High School. We will have signs
for "Robotics Kickoff" directing attendees from those areas to the kickoff location.
What should I bring with me?
It is advised that you bring a hand truck or other rolling cart to transport your kit boxes to your
car. Kit disbursement will happen in the commons and you will be able to load gear easily from
the location. You may want to bring a camera, tape measure, and means to take notes on any
field elements that are available to you on site.
What is the kit pickup procedure?
Kits will be available for any teams who have indicated such in TIMS. Teams may begin arriving
as early as 6:00AM, although the live broadcast does not begin until approximately 7:30AM.
Upon arrival, a team MENTOR must sign-in and receive your Kit of Parts (KoP) receipt. This
piece of paper is what you will need to receive all elements of your KoP. At the conclusion of
the live broadcast, team members will proceed to the commons to pick up their kits. Each
station will have a different item and teams must provide their KoP receipt to that station
volunteer who will check off that they received their item. Since the loading area is limited, only
the adult mentor with the KoP receipt and two team members will be allowed in the loading
area. Maps will be available for the pick-up and load-out areas. After all items are
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received, a MENTOR will be required to turn in the receipt and sign off that all items have been
provided to them. If your team is picking-up a KoP for another team, you must have clearance
from FIRST. The two teams must coordinate this in advance with FIRST. If you have not done
this, please get it done now. This is done by contacting FIRST and obtaining a letter of
permission. No letter. No KoP. No exceptions. There will be designated tables in the commons
for each team for inventorying of parts and initial brainstorming.
Will there be any workshops?
The Kickoff will host a series of workshops for all interested teams after kick-off formalities on
January 5, 2013. Rookie teams are especially encouraged to stay and attend the "quick build"
workshops that are scheduled. For detailed workshop descriptions and schedule please see the
accompany pages included. Rookie teams should make arrangements for snacks or lunch for
their teams. Concessions will be available on site. For workshop schedule questions please
contact Bud Hayes: mail@thehayesplace.com. We will also have a nearly complete field set up
for teams to evaluate and get a feel of the scope of this years competition.
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2013 FIRST FRC Vancouver Kickoff Workshops
Rookie Team Workshops Veteran and Rookie Team Workshops Team Coaches/Shipping Mentor
Robot Electrical - Programming - Mechanical Other
Intro to
LabVIEW by
9:30 AM Aaron Pena
of National KoP
KoP Distribution
Instruments
Inventory by Keith
Room 261
10:00 AM for Rookie Wegmann
Teams by
Bob Hendel
Frame and Make a Build a Intro to
Advanced LabVIEW Manipulators Room 718
10:30 AM Wheel Chain/Belt Gearbox by Control Rules
LabVIEW by Install & for FIRST
Assembly by Drive by Ed Boeing Systems by Review by
Aaron Pena cRIO Robots by
Boeing Burdick Mentors Tim Teams 1510
of National imaging by Bruce Bag & Tag by
11:00 AM Mentors Room 253 Room 253
Instruments Jim Chastain Whitefield
Bennington- & 2898
Room 255 Small Engine Small Engine Davis Room Room TBD Bob Hendel
Room 261 Room 259 Room 258 Auditorium
Woodshop Room Room 260
11:30 AM
12:00 PM Lunch ~ Pizza and other concessions will be available
12:30 PM
Final Integration by Boeing Mentors, Ed Burdick, Tim Bennington-Davis
1:00 PM & Bruce Whitefield Room 255 Woodshop
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Veteran and Rookie Workshops
Introduction to LabVIEW
Leader: Aaron Pena of National Instruments
Description: Hands on exercises to learn LabVIEW development environment. Series of 10
examples of basic control elements needed for robot design to help student gain familiarity with
mechanics of programming in LabVIEW. Examples include: Numeric computation; Digital to
Analog conversion; Signal inversion; Parallel loops; Timing elements; Enable gates; Local
variables; Controls, indicators and constants. Examples of how to generate "problem statement"
to improve inter-team communications. Students with LabVIEW installed encouraged to bring
laptop. Some number of PC's available at school with demo installed will be available.
Audience: Rookie AND Veteran teams
Duration: 1 hour
Location: Room 261
Things to bring: Laptop with LabVIEW (demo or FRC version) downloaded.
Advanced LabVIEW
Leader: Aaron Pena of National Instruments
Description: Examples of design which incorporate system control and monitoring for
Autonomous mode and Teleoperated mode. Utilizes state machine design, debug techniques,
shift registers, Global Variables and type definition.
A: Background state machine to control ball lift elevator. Utilizes PWM motor control,
micro limit switches and time delay elements
B: Autonomous robot designed to navigate an unknown maze. Robot with defined
footprint must navigate maze with pathways > 2 times the dimension of robot width. All
designs based on FRC Robot Project 2010 Framework. Be prepared to take notes.
Audience: Rookie AND Veteran Teams
Duration: 1.5 hours
Location: Room 261
Tools to bring: Pen, paper
Rules Review
Leader: Team 1510
Description: Go over all the rules in detail
Audience: Rookie AND Veteran Teams
Duration: 1.5 hours
Location: Room TBD
Tools to bring: Pencil and Paper, Electronic or paper copies of 2013 FRC rules
Bag & Tag
Leader: Bob Hendel
Description: Describe how bag and tag will work
Audience: Team Coaches/ Shipping Mentor
Duration: 1.5 hours
Location: Auditorium
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Manipulators for FIRST Robots
Leader: Bruce Whitefield
Description: Compilation of approaches used for FIRST robotics game piece manipulating
systems. Will briefly discuss pros, cons and design tradeoffs for a number of different
manipulator designs.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Audience: Rookie and Veteran Teams, mechanical representatives
Location: Room 258
Tools to bring: Pencil and Paper
LabVIEW installation on team laptop and cRIO imaging
Leader: Jim Chastain
Description: Bring in your programming team laptop to get the latest LabVIEW installed. Also
get your cRIO updated to the latest version so your team is ready to go.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Audience: Rookie and Veteran Teams
Location: Room 259
Tools to bring: Laptop and/or cRIO
Rookie Workshops
Introduction to Control Systems
Leader: Tim Bennington-Davis
Description: Describe what the different electronic components are. Plan how they are laid out
and mount on a board. We will be only mounting enough parts to control a single
motor/gearbox.
Audience: Rookie Team – programming and electrical students
Duration: 1 hour
Location: Room 260
Tools to bring: Philips head screw driver, a pair of wire strippers, and the magic Wago
screwdriver that comes in the kit.
KoP Inventory Review
Leader: Bob Hendel/Team 1510
Description: Go over the Kit of Parts (KoP) checklist. Ensure that all parts are there and make
a list of missing parts. Explain the parts and their function. Also give them a list of vendors for
different parts.
Audience: Rookie Team members
Duration: 1 hour - Leave at least one student for whole session. The rest go to different
workshops after the parts needed for the workshops have been identified and checked off.
Place: Room 718
Things to bring: Pencil and paper.
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Build Frame and Wheel Sprocket Assembly
Leader: Ejvin Berry, Chris Imondi
Description: Assemble the frame. Assemble sprocket, spacer, and wheel and mount on the
frame.
Audience: Rookie Teams - mechanical representative
Duration: 1.5 hours
Location: Room 255 - Woodshop
Tools to bring: Allen wrench set, 2 each open-end and box wrenches and/or socket wrenches
(sizes: 7/16", 1/2"), 10/32"
tap (preferable – but not required)
Make a Chain/Belt Drive
Leader: Ed Burdick
Description: Build a chain loop. Learn how to make master links and offset links.
Audience: Rookie Teams - mechanical representative
Duration: 1.5 hours
Location: Room 253 – Small Engines room
Tools to bring: #35 Chain breaker, Pin punches, Master links and offset links (ANSI #35 size
chain), small ball peen hammer, pair of long-nosed pliers, locking blade knife, chain puller
(optional), belt
Build a Gearbox
Leader: Jason Marr
Description: Assemble one of the gearboxes in the kit.
Audience: Rookie Teams - mechanical representative
Duration: 1.5 hours
Location: Room 253 – Small Engines room
Tools to bring: 5/16” allen wrench, 3/16” allen wrench, 7/16” wrench (or socket driver), Small
hammer
Final Integration
Leader: Boeing Mentors, Ed Burdick, Tim Bennington-Davis, Paul Reetz, Jim Chastain
Description: Mount the control board on the frame, with gearbox and chain drive. Run the code
Audience: Rookie Teams – all sub-teams
Duration: 1hour
Location: Room 255 – Woodshop
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Lunch Order Form
Team Name:
Phone:
Coach/Mentor:
Pizza is $2.00 per slice *A whole pizza is 12 slices
Pizza Quantity Price
Pepperoni
Cheese
Supreme
Pizza forms need to be turned in by 9:15 to the
concessions.