Despite the freak snow storm earlier in the week, Pittsburgh decided to warm up and clear up just for the weekend. At the start of last week, there were also only two orgs with caped buggies, but by the end of the week, there were enough to make rolls happen. Against all odds, rolls were certainly possible, but come early Friday evening rolls had been cancelled… Continue reading
Rolls are on!… snow?
Alright, this is not my usual time to put up a post, but last night Pittsburgh got a freak blizzard over a couple hours from 9 to 11 or so. So in what I will still claim is a good idea, I decided to head over to the course after it was all over and capture what I could of the snow-covered course. I managed to get there before the plows, but not before cars had already carved their own path. None-the-less, here’s what the course could look like if buggies ran in the snow. Continue reading
Carnival Plans – Design Competition
Hey guys, it’s been around 2 months since the last post went up, so it’s time to get back into the rhythm before rolls start up. This is a big year as Carnival is celebrating its 100th year, and it’s only 8 weeks away! Because of this, the buggy organizers are working hard on making this year special. There are some special additions as well as a few major changes that we’re looking at.
The design comp chair this year, Connor Hayes (Apex founder), has some pretty awesome ideas to improve design comp and make it a bit more interesting, BUT he’s looking for some feedback from the community and has written the following…
Freeroll Times: Fall 2013 – Nov 16
Here it is, the final times from the Fall. Starting to get a system down, so hopefully we can get some good data each week as we get closer to Raceday.
This time we had a visitor during rolls, but fortunately, he didn’t cause any trouble.
Fastest times from Each org
| Org | Saturday |
|---|---|
| AEPi | — |
| Apex | Phoenix – 1:05.92 |
| CIA | Freyja – 1:14.75 |
| Fringe | Bissa – 0:57.14 |
| PiKA | Banshee – 0:56.12 |
| SAE | Lucy – 1:15.50 |
| SDC | Malice – 0:54.58 |
| SigEp | Baraccuda – 1:10.18 |
| SigNu | Krait – 1:01.54 |
| Spirit | Kingpin 2 – 1:01.04 |
Freeroll Times: Fall 2013 – Nov 9 & 10
Alright, This took a bit to get together, but I finally managed to get all the times measured out from the second to last weekend of rolls this fall (Nov 9th and 10th). This was also the first weekend that I was able to use our new GoPros which were a dream. They were easy to set up, lasted the whole day, and gave me the ability to record in different resolutions and frame speeds. The only thing slowing the process down now is the post processing that needs to be done to extract all the times from the video. Continue reading
Rolls Report: Nov 16 – End of Fall Season
Congrats to all the teams that made it through the season. Rolls are all over until the spring, so it’s time for you all to finish up that work you’ve been putting off. No not school work, those new buggies that you’ve been planning on building! Stories are already flying around and I for one can’t wait to see what comes out next spring.
Unfortunately, we only had one day this weekend with Sunday getting a huge amount of rain early in the morning. But that’s not to say we were without an exciting day of rolls on Saturday, sadly, by no fault of the teams themselves. We had nearly every team out this weekend as a few of the usual no-shows showed their faces on what was a surprisingly nice morning.
In Attendance
| Org | Saturday |
|---|---|
| AEPi | |
| Apex | Phoenix |
| CIA | Ascension, Orca, Freyja |
| Fringe | Beacon, Bissa, Bedlam, Banyan |
| PiKA | Banshee |
| SAE | Lucy, Rubicon |
| SDC | Vice, Malice, Avarice, Psychosis, Rage |
| SigEp | Barracuda, Pandora |
| SigNu | Bungarus Krait |
| Spirit | Kingpin II, Zuke, Seraph, Fuko |
Observations (Saturday Gallery) Continue reading
Rolls Report: Nov 9 & 10 – Return from Hiatus
After practically 2 weeks off, buggy returned to two very cold days of rolls, and thanks to daylight savings, they were each a full 2 hrs long. Some teams are getting up to full speed already and clearly can’t wait for the spring. With only one weekend left, there is not much time left for the teams to claim all the rolls that they can carry over if they haven’t already gotten them.
The tree next to the chute has fallen down and opened up the viewing possibilities from the chute. This also means that come raceday, we might have a new option for Jumbotron placement. After Next weekend, we here at the BAA will be going into our own style of hibernation until the spring where February 1st is the first possibly day of rolls of 2014.
In Attendance
| Org | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|
| AEPi | Kamikaze | |
| Apex | Phoenix | Phoenix |
| CIA | Ascension, Impulse, Freyja | Ascension, Impulse, Orca, Freyja |
| Fringe | Beacon, Bissa, Banyan | Beacon, Bissa, Banyan |
| PiKA | Banshee, Chimera | Banshee, Chimera |
| SAE | ||
| SDC | Vice, Malice, Avarice, Psychosis, Rage | Vice, Malice, Avarice, Psychosis, Rage |
| SigEp | Barracuda, Pandora | Barracuda, Pandora |
| SigNu | ||
| Spirit | Kingpin II, Zuke, Seraph, Haraka, Fuko | Kingpin II, Zuke, Seraph, Haraka, Fuko |
Observations (Saturday Gallery | Sunday Gallery) Continue reading
Rolls Report: Nov 2 & 3 – Cancelled
There’s a Crane in the chute, so the Rolls Report has been cancelled for this weekend. Probably to help clear out the tree that fell over.
Enjoy your Monday.
Rolls Report: Oct 27 – Short and Sweet
Welcome back buggiers (shut up auto-correct, it’s totally a word)! Last weekend rolls did not happen because of Mid-semester break and Saturday was called on account of Halloween parties, or so we assume… This left us with only Sunday rolls, and a short one at that. Next weekend we finally say goodbye to daylight savings and we’ll have the longest and shortest days of rolls, so remember to check your clocks and keep the time in mind. When I got to the course Sunday morning, my phone was practically dead (didn’t have a chance to change it overnight) so there was no livestream. Thankfully, Tom Wood was out in the chute and got some videos to share. Such a short weekend means that there wasn’t much of a chance for things to happen, but hopefully enough to make this report at least somewhat interesting. Sadly one of my cameras failed again this weekend so I got absolutely no times to mess around with. I’m still playing with some of the footage from a couple weeks ago, so hopefully you can expect something later this week with old data.
In Attendance
| Org | Sunday |
|---|---|
| AEPi | Kamikaze |
| Apex | Phoenix |
| CIA | Impulse, Orca, Ascension, Freyja |
| Fringe | Beacon, Bissa, Bedlam, Banyan |
| PiKA | Banshee, Chimera |
| SAE | N/A |
| SDC | Vice, Malice, Avarice, Rage |
| SigEp | Mamba, Baraccuda, Pandora |
| SigNu | Bungarus Krait |
| Spirit | Kingpin II, Zuke, Haraka, Seraph, Fuko |
Observations (Sunday Gallery) – (I left my camera at a friends house, I will be getting pictures up later today)… Continue reading
Freeroll Times: Fall 2013 – Oct 12
Here are the times from Saturday October 12th that I was able to collect.
I would like to collect an entire day but our equipment at the moment is not capable of doing so. I have an idea that could make this process better and more accurate which I have posted to our project reddit page. Please post your thoughts there and if there’s enough interest (and if it’s fast enough), we could possibly have this ready to go as early as this or next weekend. There are also plenty of other projects that have been forgotten about. Check those out and if there’s any interest, we can make more things happen. Continue reading