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
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
Freeroll Times: Fall 2013 – Oct 5&6
Hey you Buggy fanatics,
Remember that “teaser” I left you in last weekend’s Rolls Report? Well, I meant to get these out by Thursday or so last week, but I only finally got time now.
The times are taken from two synced video sources from the crosswalk (first line) to line at the start of hill 3. I realized too late that my timer was recording frames (60 fps) instead of miliseconds. The minutes and seconds are accurate, but the miliseconds should only be used as reference (or do the math yourself).
SO, without further ado, here are the times we got from the first full weekend of rolls. Continue reading
Team Introductions – from Anthony Pacella
Guess what, rolls could be starting as soon as THIS SUNDAY!
To reintroduce people to the teams, former Sweepstakes chair Anthony Pacella wrote a quick synopsis of the teams and where they stand as of last year. Enjoy! Continue reading
Back in Action – Open Casting Call
It’s a new year and a new day and time for some new help. We here at the BAA have so many things that we want to do for you guys, but unfortunately we’re running out of manpower to do it all. This is an open call for anyone that is interested in helping us continue to make the awesome rolls reports, Raceday previews, and keep this site updated. Continue reading
Welcome Freshmen and Welcome Back!
It’s been a long summer and we’ve had our fun, but it’s time to return to Pittsburgh and prepare for the craziest sport that we’re all crazy about!
We here at BAA headquarters have been fixing and tweaking the site to get everything ready for the new season and we can only expect that some teams have their new build plans well underway as well. Last year was a blast and we’re only looking to improve for this year. So lets get this show a-rollin’!
Summer 2013 #4 – Mighty C-Mites
Might Buggy help C-Mite?
With our forums acting a bit screwy (we’re working on it!), some people haven’t been able to make the posts they want. Not to be deterred, Conrad Zapanta (CIA alum, and currently Associate Department Head of Biomedical Engineering at CMU) reached out to us here at BAA HQ with a request:
“As someone who works with CMU’s C-MITE program, they are really, really interested in developing a program based on buggy that would teach the kids how physics, math, engineering, etc. are applied to buggy.” Continue reading