Thanks to Teams 40 and 175

[RoteAugen]

A special thanks goes out to Trinity High (40) from Manchester, NH and Team Buzz (175) for performing excellently at the finals in the Granite State Regionals competition.

Trinity- you didn't let us down even when the other Manch teams were beating the hell out of your bot... it just righted itself and kept on keeping on.

Buzz- you did an excellent job dominating the balls, and without those points, we would not have gone as far as we did.

On behalf of Souhegan High Sabers (138,) I thank you.

Can't wait to see you at the nationals!


Second place was exciting, but never good enough

[Tom Bottiglieri]

hey do you have any pics of your bot (or from BAE).. i know my cousins on the team and i am interested in seeing your work

[RoteAugen]

hey do you have any pics of your bot (or from BAE).. i know my cousins on the team and i am interested in seeing your work

I do, actually, however they are too large a filesize to be uploaded onto chief delphi. We actually had problems with people getting in our way as we worked on our bot who were taking pictures of our 4wheel ackerman steering system, and other systems on our bot.

one thing that I heard a lot that I and my mentors were peeved at was "now theres one that only the engineers built." One thing you need to know about team 138 is that we are usually (this year no exception) very underfunded, and the design, fabrication, and testing is done by the students. The function of the mentors is to help train the students, and assist them, not the other way around. we spent many nights working till the wee hours of the morning (and even until dawn the next day working our @$$es off on that robot... but we are very proud of what we have made, and from what I saw at the regionals, you all should be too.

so about the pictures- i may email them to you, or you can ask some other teams for them... because there are a lot of them floating around in the hands of the teams that were at the regionals, complete with notes :ahh: :confused:

[RoteAugen]

heres the best i can do for now:
http://www.baesystemsfirst.org/regional/event_photos/saturday_part2/original/2004-062-672.jpg

to hang we use 2 threads of spectracable, each rated at 400-600 lbs. tension.