HapLink https://www.haplink.net Home of the Happy Haptic Doctors, an FLL team Fri, 26 Apr 2024 11:41:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.haplink.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Drawing.sketchpad-1-pdf-150x150.jpg HapLink https://www.haplink.net 32 32 Innovation Presentation https://www.haplink.net/2024/04/26/innovation-presentation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=innovation-presentation https://www.haplink.net/2024/04/26/innovation-presentation/#respond Fri, 26 Apr 2024 11:41:50 +0000 https://www.haplink.net/?p=380

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]]> https://www.haplink.net/2024/04/24/first-match/feed/ 0 Long day https://www.haplink.net/2024/04/20/long-day/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=long-day https://www.haplink.net/2024/04/20/long-day/#respond Sat, 20 Apr 2024 03:17:27 +0000 https://www.haplink.net/?p=366 Felt like an early morning. Hordes of people streaming in at 6am on… First match was good. Lots of miscues on the second one. Lunch was mostly final adjustments, plus some sustenance. (so what about those smoothies??) Third round was best so far with 450 out of possible 550. Lots of hope for even better […]

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]]> Felt like an early morning. Hordes of people streaming in at 6am on…

First match was good. Lots of miscues on the second one.

Lunch was mostly final adjustments, plus some sustenance. (so what about those smoothies??)

Third round was best so far with 450 out of possible 550. Lots of hope for even better but this was a great result.

Screenshot

Ended the day with bowling and pool as a team.

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]]> https://www.haplink.net/2024/04/20/long-day/feed/ 0 Practice practice practice https://www.haplink.net/2024/04/19/practice-practice-practice/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=practice-practice-practice https://www.haplink.net/2024/04/19/practice-practice-practice/#respond Fri, 19 Apr 2024 00:55:45 +0000 https://www.haplink.net/?p=346 Today was practice rounds – individually on available tables, then in the big arena on the official tables. The kids shared a table with teams from Paraguay, New Mexico, South Korea, Spain, and Montana. The first official practice led to the best result. In between there were a lot of adjustments. In between the challenge […]

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]]> Today was practice rounds – individually on available tables, then in the big arena on the official tables. The kids shared a table with teams from Paraguay, New Mexico, South Korea, Spain, and Montana. The first official practice led to the best result. In between there were a lot of adjustments.

In between the challenge matches, they were at the pit talking to other kids, and also gave their robot design presentation.

It’s hard to appreciate how enormous this event is – here’s the clearest picture of the scale of it all – from one of the other (older kids) divisions of competition:

And here’s a time lapse walking from one end of the space to another, and traversing just two of three floors. It’s a little frenetic and hard to make out details, but that is representative of the overall feel here….

They did get a bit of a break in the Texas shaped lazy river, but now they are practicing again. Tomorrow is the big day – official matches and innovation project presentation!

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]]> https://www.haplink.net/2024/04/19/practice-practice-practice/feed/ 0 Setting up our pit https://www.haplink.net/2024/04/18/setting-up-our-pit/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=setting-up-our-pit https://www.haplink.net/2024/04/18/setting-up-our-pit/#respond Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:26:56 +0000 https://www.haplink.net/?p=335 Yesterday we set up our “pit” – basically a home base / display booth. It’s hard to convey how enormous this event is – have not really tried with the pictures below. Some teams have camping tents, lights, 9 foot tall towers they have brought from across the globe. We have excited kids and ingenuity. […]

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]]> Yesterday we set up our “pit” – basically a home base / display booth. It’s hard to convey how enormous this event is – have not really tried with the pictures below. Some teams have camping tents, lights, 9 foot tall towers they have brought from across the globe. We have excited kids and ingenuity. We decided a mannequin would help show the haptic hoodie, and managed to find one and acquire it. The kids spent the afternoon practicing their innovation project, and after a break at the pool, went back to work all evening!

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]]> https://www.haplink.net/2024/04/18/setting-up-our-pit/feed/ 0 Practice Table Construction https://www.haplink.net/2024/04/17/practice-table-construction/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=practice-table-construction https://www.haplink.net/2024/04/17/practice-table-construction/#respond Wed, 17 Apr 2024 19:22:01 +0000 https://www.haplink.net/?p=325 How do you ensure you can practice without competing for time on limited tables? Think outside of the box, then build inside the box (SUV). And here’s the finished result:

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]]> How do you ensure you can practice without competing for time on limited tables? Think outside of the box, then build inside the box (SUV).

And here’s the finished result:

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]]> https://www.haplink.net/2024/04/17/practice-table-construction/feed/ 0 Packing up! https://www.haplink.net/2024/04/14/packing-up/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=packing-up https://www.haplink.net/2024/04/14/packing-up/#respond Sun, 14 Apr 2024 23:09:22 +0000 https://www.haplink.net/?p=318 We’ve been hard at work in the same space for months, focused on perfecting our robot. It was easy to forget that somehow we have to transport all of these delicate parts halfway across the country! Next stop – Houston!

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]]> We’ve been hard at work in the same space for months, focused on perfecting our robot. It was easy to forget that somehow we have to transport all of these delicate parts halfway across the country!

Next stop – Houston!

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]]> https://www.haplink.net/2024/04/14/packing-up/feed/ 0 NH Champions, on to Worlds! https://www.haplink.net/2023/12/03/nh-champions-on-to-worlds/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nh-champions-on-to-worlds https://www.haplink.net/2023/12/03/nh-champions-on-to-worlds/#comments Sun, 03 Dec 2023 13:59:00 +0000 https://www.haplink.net/?p=207 Coach Yu and I can’t stop thinking about that moment on Saturday when they announced that the kids had earned a spot at World Championships! What an incredible experience, with much more to come!

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]]> Coach Yu and I can’t stop thinking about that moment on Saturday when they announced that the kids had earned a spot at World Championships! What an incredible experience, with much more to come!

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