IEEE 2006 Current Events: IEEE SoutheastCon 2007: The central theme for the IEEE SoutheastCon 2007 Student Hardware Competition will be BASKETBALL. The competition will be a modified version of basketball played between two robots, with the winning teams advancing to the next round of competition. This will be a double elimination competition with each match lasting five minutes. Competition Date: March 24, 2007 During this weeks meeting we observed the capabilities and limitations of the ping-pong pitching machine and solenoid designs as well as the CMU Cam and its abilities to find the hoop. During the next two weeks a few students have volunteered to work with a few aspects of the Robot design. Our goal for the next two weeks is to obtain a pretty good idea as to what we are going to do. In two weeks we need to start designing the robot and getting things moving. For those that are interested in participating please contact the individuals below. Pitching Machine -Phillip D. Clark clarkpd1@wku.edu Catapult -Paul W. Lancette lancepw@wku.edu Solenoid -Clinton A Merritt clinton.merritt@wku.edu CMU Cam -Drew B Bewley drew.bewley@wku.edu Infra Red Emitter Detector LEDs -Derek T Rhoades derek.rhoades@wku.edu Ultra Sonic Range Finders -Jason A Kondracki jason.kondracki@wku.edu Our next meeting will be held on October 26 at 1:30 in the EBS building room 2142. If you can not make it to the meeting and you have some ideas to share, please e-mail them to me and I'll present them for you. Jason A Kondracki <jason.kondracki@wku.edu> The groups for the hardware competition have been set. If you are interseted in joining there will be a sign in sheet in EBS room 2142. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Revised on 9/20/2006 by Max Karavayev Please send comments to : Maksim.Karavayev@wku.edu Visit Western Kentucky Engineering Department ©Copyright 2001 Western Kentucky University and WKU IEEE. All rights reserved.