SPAM robot names

[Gary Dillard]

Team 180 Rookies:

The names of the 6 robots that SPAM has built and competed are:

1998: Kenny
1999: G'Doinkle
2000: Lexie
2001: 3-Bits
2002: Fluffy
2003: Twitch

BLT stands for brave little toaster

Brandon: our website is still down (grrrrr), and these are the only answers to our history test that they can't find on usfirst.org, other than Robot Rodeo questions which are in the CD off season competition forum. I figured this was a good forum for them to search in and find the answers; let me know if you move this thread. Thanks.

[Tytus Gerrish]

what id like to know is how you got the names i know twitch was named fot the twitching finger because of ther inconsistant feedback from the pots but ,FluffY? i dont get it?

[Gary Dillard]

OK Tytus.....

Kenny - kept dying, like Kenny on South Park
G'Doinkle - added a ratchet to keep the lift up (as Warren called it, "the little thing that goes G'doink, G'doink, G'doink")
Lexie - about 70% of the robot weight was Lexan (first year of unlimited use)
3-bits - that's all the code variable space we had left
Fluffy - the killer rabbit, from Monty Python and the Holy Grail

[George1902]

Fluffy - the killer rabbit, from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Plus, the thing was so darn cute (http://www.firstrobotics.net/02gallery/180-1.jpg) and loveable (http://www.firstrobotics.net/02gallery/180-2.jpg)... you just wanted to hug it.

If I remeber, it was a toss up between Fluffy and Cuddles, and Fluffy won out.

[Scythe]

Now the real question is what will we name this years robot? :confused:

[Jedi Padawan]

What about Monkey for the pull up bar...

[Dorienne]

What about Monkey for the pull up bar...

haha! classic.

[Trinora]

My team seems unwilling to part with PAL (Professionally Automated Landrover or suchlike?) We're on PAL 5, about now.

[Gary Dillard]

We generally wait until about the time we ship before we name our robot - it needs that much time to develop a personality.

[Jedi Padawan]

Short UpStaRT history lesson,
Two years ago's robot got named Moby (for the whale) b/c our floor grabbing device got named anchors and then our goal grabber a harpoon and then our ball shooter the "cannon", so we usually wait until someone has some sort of inspiration but then again last years got named after it's "wings" so we named it Icarus (after the greek guy who flew too close to the sun) and you know what?? It took on that kind of personality, It's rotation sensor broke in Richmond and it loved to flip so I guess that comes as close as you can to flying too close to the sun (by the way did I mention that only happened when we were near the top 10...) :D