Onekopakaspace Blog » seattle http://theoks.net/blog Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:59:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha-19814 Happy 4th of July, 2010. http://theoks.net/blog/2010/07/04/happy-4th-of-july-2010/ http://theoks.net/blog/2010/07/04/happy-4th-of-july-2010/#comments Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:59:36 +0000 Darren VanBuren http://theoks.net/blog/?p=709 Continue reading →]]> Ah, yes. Summer. No school, sunny weather, freedom. Let’s just scratch the sunny weather part.

This is the Pacific Northwest. We have rain all the time. We have rain as I write this, despite it being a rather gentle mist.

Our good friend, Matt Ventura, is planning to again set off his questionably legal fireworks, starting at 19:30 PDT. He plans to get some videos, which I’ll gladly repost.

Also, despite Chase killing Seattle’s Family 4th, people have donated enough money to save it. You’ll be able to see it tonight at 22:00 PDT, both live at Lake Union and on KING5.

My plans tonight are questionable. I have no clue what I’m doing, other than watching Matt’s aforementioned videos and likely the Family 4th on TV.

]]> http://theoks.net/blog/2010/07/04/happy-4th-of-july-2010/feed/ 0 FRC Build Season is closing soon http://theoks.net/blog/2010/02/15/frc-build-season-is-closing-soon/ http://theoks.net/blog/2010/02/15/frc-build-season-is-closing-soon/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:44:31 +0000 Darren VanBuren http://theoks.net/blog/?p=602 Continue reading →]]> The date for FIRST Robotics Competition teams to ship off their robots is drawing nearer. I’m in the Tahoma Robotics Club, and I am getting to see our robot come together. We hope that our robot will do very well at the Portland and Seattle Regionals, taking us to the National Competitions at Atlanta.

The Build Season started on January 9th, with the season kickoff. On that day, FIRST announces the game robots are to play in competition that season. After the announcement of the game, our club went back to our school to think of strategies to play the game this year. We get 6 weeks to design and build the robot from scratch.

Our team has a fairly long way to go, and only 8 days to get there. I’m feeling that we’re going to finish just barely ahead of time, and we’ll do very well at competitions.

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Seattle doesn’t get snow very often. So I’m excited that we got some. More is predicted to come on Wednesday. So enjoy the snow on my blog. If you’re on an iPhone or iPod touch, the snow is disabled due to performance issues. I will enable it on a dedicated snow page.

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