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Chris is me
15-04-2013, 18:57
[cdm-description=photo]38962[/cdm-description]
Travis Hoffman
15-04-2013, 18:58
Clearly, the answer to your question is "not enough". :)
Clearly, the answer to your question is "not enough". :)
Need more cowbell.
Sam390250
15-04-2013, 19:16
Love
Timz3082
15-04-2013, 19:17
A soccer ball could have easily been implemented, though I doubt you could fit a trackball :yikes:
Billfred
15-04-2013, 19:20
Are those...floppies?!
Andrew Schreiber
15-04-2013, 19:21
Are those...floppies?!
I don't think that's a polite question to ask man...
CENTURION
15-04-2013, 19:32
Need more cowbell.
Needs more Tetras!
Are those...floppies?!
Those things are practically antiques. I can't imagine there are many surviving examples of those left these days.
Travis Hoffman
15-04-2013, 19:35
Those things are practically antiques. I can't imagine there are many surviving examples of those left these days.
We've got one encased in lexan as part of a thank you from Team 379 for mentoring them during their early existence. It's on display at the National Packard Museum as part of a larger exhibit.
I'd pay to acquire a free range floppy, however.
Akash Rastogi
15-04-2013, 21:19
Just wondering Pinecone, will you guys be posting the CAD up for this one? I'd love to check out some of the features.
Do I get a bonus for naming them all? Or just a "you've been here too long"?
2x floppies (1999's Double Trouble)--and how you saved 2 I'll never know.
1x basketball (2012's Rebound Rumble)
1x Orbit Ball, moon-rock class (2009's Lunacy, AKA "the OTHER game that shall not be named")
1x white ring inner tube, which is most likely from 2011's Logomotion but could theoretically be from 1997's Toroid Terror. (The game piece type was also used in 2007, but only in red and blue.)
5 game pieces from 4 different years. And the robot is designed to handle none of them.
The question is, how does a team formed in 2006 have a game piece from 1999?
The question is, how does a team formed in 2006 have a game piece from 1999?
Borrowed from a mentor team, I would guess.
Do I get a bonus for naming them all? Or just a "you've been here too long"?
2x floppies (1999's Double Trouble)--and how you saved 2 I'll never know.
1x basketball (2012's Rebound Rumble)
1x Orbit Ball, moon-rock class (2009's Lunacy, AKA "the OTHER game that shall not be named")
1x white ring inner tube, which is most likely from 2011's Logomotion but could theoretically be from 1997's Toroid Terror. (The game piece type was also used in 2007, but only in red and blue.)And red/white, blue/white, and black.
5 game pieces from 4 different years. And the robot is designed to handle none of them.
Do I get points for knowing that?
Akash Rastogi
15-04-2013, 21:38
The question is, how does a team formed in 2006 have a game piece from 1999?
The practice field is shared with team 20 I'm fairly positive they would be the source. Or another local team.
KrazyCarl92
15-04-2013, 21:44
The question is, how does a team formed in 2006 have a game piece from 1999?
Team 2791 was formed in 2009. This picture is from this weekend and was taken at a shared practice field facility with local teams in the area. Many past robots from teams 20 and 1493 reside at the practice facility and some of them carry old game pieces with them as cargo. The white tube is from Logomotion, but the 1997 robot is at the practice facility as well.
The real takeaway here is that those game pieces are older than some freshmen on FRC teams :ahh: .
I believe there are 2-3 more floppies at the field along with a few 2006 poof balls, a 2008 track ball, and a few other goodies.
Peyton Yeung
15-04-2013, 22:12
The great thing is at the Technokat's shop we have at least 4-5 floppies, some original sterilite tubs, a couple of tetras, a bag of aim high poof balls, a bin of unused rack n roll tubes, 1.5 trackballs, a christmas tree 5 feet by 6 feet made of orbit balls, ~5 logomotion tubes intact, 15 rebound rumble balls, and 15 frisbees. The only cool game piece we lack are corn and tennis balls :)
ehfeinberg
15-04-2013, 22:26
1.5 trackballs
Story?
449 has a big bag of unused poofballs. By big I mean 20-30 still in the bag.
Chris is me
15-04-2013, 22:44
EricH was right on with the game pieces. Not shown are two frisbees loaded into the robot to prevent our automated hopper from running. I was thinking of wrapping the whole robot in an Overdrive trackball, but then you wouldn't be able to see all the other cool game pieces.
As Akash pointed out, we do share use of a practice field with 20 at the RPI Tech Park. We practiced together this Saturday so that 20 could prepare for the Championship. Between our Colson drive and our tall arm to block their shots up close we could play strong defense on 20. However, we needed some padding. Since 20 keeps almost all of their robots on display at the field, we just grabbed some game pieces straight out of their 1999 hopper and taped them on. The Logomotion circle took most of the hits.
The question is, how does a team formed in 2006 have a game piece from 1999?
2006 was my first year in the FIRST family of programs, on an FVC team in Wisconsin. 2791 started in Latham, NY in 2009. How I got from there to here is a long story.
Ian Curtis
15-04-2013, 22:48
Story?
449 has a big bag of unused poofballs. By big I mean 20-30 still in the bag.
I'm reasonably sure there are still poofballs lodged in random crevices of the vocational school we worked out of from late night night dodgeball shenanigans.
The floppies are also now as old as the freshman! :ahh:
:ahh: Needs a bin from Stack Attack!
KrazyCarl92
15-04-2013, 23:08
We practiced together this Saturday so that 20 could prepare for the Championship. Between our Colson drive and our tall arm to block their shots up close we could play strong defense on 20. However, we needed some padding.
Shhhhhhhh...
We shouldn't tell them we've been practicing with defense :rolleyes:
Joe Ross
15-04-2013, 23:10
The bin in the background appears like it could be a 2003 game piece.
And of course, the 2014 game piece in the background, the traffic barrels.
The bin in the background appears like it could be a 2002 game piece.
Two of the '03 bins, possibly. Though I don't remember them being that dark, that could just be the viewer. Could also be a couple of KOP bins.
KrazyCarl92
15-04-2013, 23:21
Two of the '03 bins, possibly. Though I don't remember them being that dark, that could just be the viewer. Could also be a couple of KOP bins.
Doubtful that those would be FIRST related. The building serves as both a place for us to have a year round practice field and a storage space for lots of people we don't know. We were unable to host a publicly attended week 0 "event" this year because of a large pile of Solar panels that were stored where the pits would normally be. Most of these solar panels have since relocated and we are hoping to host an event of sorts for the public in May!
TheMadCADer
16-04-2013, 01:31
That robot looks like it could use some corn as ballast.
Dominick Ferone
16-04-2013, 11:57
True question is why doesn't it pick up all of those
I converted our logo motion bot to pick up basketballs tubes soccer balls I will make it pick up tetras an orbit balls and frisbees
Lil' Lavery
16-04-2013, 13:13
Those things are practically antiques. I can't imagine there are many surviving examples of those left these days.
...And they shot frisbees at them!! :ahh:
Someone awesome should totally create a blocker from an ubertube that uses compressed air to extend to the max defensive height xD
PVCpirate
16-04-2013, 14:33
True question is why doesn't it pick up all of those
I converted our logo motion bot to pick up basketballs tubes soccer balls I will make it pick up tetras an orbit balls and frisbees
At last year's Mayhem in Merrimack(offseason event), we were short a robot for a match, so 166, who were hosting the event brought out their Logomotion bot to play. Breaking several rules at once, they managed to pick up a basketball and drop it in the top hoop for three. Definitely one of the louder cheers of the day from the crowd.
Gary Dillard
16-04-2013, 15:49
Couldn't you have just used a big sheet of regolith? It's not good for anything else.
BobbyVanNess
16-04-2013, 16:05
Couldn't you have just used a big sheet of regolith? It's not good for anything else.
Actually, I'm pretty sure we got rid of the last of our regolith last year, although it did make a good key for the rebound rumble field! :D
We used a bit of our "regolith" on our robot this year.
KrazyCarl92
18-04-2013, 13:25
Actually, I'm pretty sure we got rid of the last of our regolith last year, although it did make a good key for the rebound rumble field! :D
There's still more regolith where that came from, don't you worry.
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