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david cobbley
28-01-2009, 15:28
[cdm-description=photo]32528[/cdm-description]
Vikesrock
28-01-2009, 15:29
You guys CNCed out a calculator? That's quite impressive!
EricH
28-01-2009, 15:38
You guys CNCed out a calculator? That's quite impressive!
I'm guessing that the calculator is telling us the material. Unfortunately...

It's a TI-84+ Silver. That means that the metal is..

a) titanium (Ti on the periodic table)
b) silver (expensive)
c) whatever element has the number 84
d) some alloy with any or all of the above
e) none of the above.

I would also guess that the Pepsi crate is significant; Pepsi makes Mountain Dew.
ATannahill
28-01-2009, 15:42
My guess is the calculator is a reference to size, telling us how big stuff is.
RyanB
28-01-2009, 22:43
Very nice parts, i wonder what they are for.
lemon1324
28-01-2009, 23:40
[QUOTE=EricH;809822]
c) whatever element has the number 84
[QUOTE]

84 is polonium, and I'm pretty sure FIRST doesn't allow radioactive materials.
smurfgirl
28-01-2009, 23:58
[QUOTE=EricH;809822]
c) whatever element has the number 84
[QUOTE]

84 is polonium, and I'm pretty sure FIRST doesn't allow radioactive materials.

No radioactive materials? Man, I really have to rethink things now. Why didn't someone tell me this sooner?
Ian Curtis
29-01-2009, 00:05
So, FIRST can name a field after someone who named polonium (Madame Curie) but they won't let us use it on our robots? Lame! :rolleyes:

Relevant to the topic, what are the insets cut into the rectangularish tabs? They don't particularly look like lightening holes, and I can't see another use for them.
Chief Pride
29-01-2009, 09:40
Its a.... WIND CHIME??
Mr_I
29-01-2009, 09:51
It's a code! Look at them as letters: CCIII. That's the Roman Numeral for 203. Now every good C coder knows what '==' means (relational comparison), and the small dots are obviously ellipses ...

Okay, I got nothin'
ZInventor
29-01-2009, 15:26
[QUOTE=lemon1324;810169][QUOTE=EricH;809822]
c) whatever element has the number 84


No radioactive materials? Man, I really have to rethink things now. Why didn't someone tell me this sooner?

ya, i was thinking of increasing the mass with some depleated Uranium!!!
5n1p3r
30-01-2009, 21:27
Whats going on here? whats this all mean? Is it a code of some kind? lol
daltore
31-01-2009, 04:16
*gasp* Molds question mark question mark

Or are those cutouts just decorative? Maybe a label for an orientation-critical part?

Pretty sure polonium is also kind of hard to get without a license.