Robots, Cornhuskers, and Parking Meters - Part Two

Continued from http://www.groesser.com/2017/01/robots-cornhuskers-and-parking-meters.html

So Bennet and I made a trip to the University of Nebraska, Lincoln campus. We went through the student union. Not much happening on a Saturday Morning.
I happened to remember that there was a tower that I've always associated with the university and I tried an online search and I found that there was a tower called Mueller Tower. Hey, I know someone named Mueller. Got to visit that. We also found another sculpture.

On the other side, there was the stadium and the gym

Then we noticed off the right, there was a mastodon. I took the first picture and I wanted to know what he was doing. He mentioned that he wanted a pic to show he was holding it up. I came close.

Then, when walking back to the car, just past the bookstore, I saw the tower I was really looking for. Then the realization hit me that that was the state capitol. Of course it was. I felt kind of stupid for thinking it was part of the university. I must be slipping.

We had to make a quick run back to the motel and I noticed just to the side of the motel was a sculpture of a paper airplane. Notice the last photo that the paper folds are present. You may need to click on it to expand it.

OK. Off to the robotics competition.

Setup.

I don't have a video of the first competition but there are some good facebook videos that I will link to. Let me tell you about how the competition works. The first 30 seconds are devoted to autonomous action from the robot. It can do a few things in this stage, I think. It can shoot the two given balls into the basket. It can push off the large ball off the pedestal and park there. It can move to the wall and hit a beacon to change the color. After the autonomous time, the teams can drive the robots and points are established. Each color has two teams that are to work together. Also, the actions are similar but the robots can lift the large balls and put them in the basket.

Match 1 for Team 5037:
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Match 2 for Team 5037:
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Match 3 for Team 5037:

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Match 4 for Team 5037:
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Match 5 for Team 5037"
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Semifinal Round 1 (They were ranked #2 from 24 teams!!):
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Semifinal Round 2:
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OK. They didn't win. They did very well though.