Tacos... someone say tacos!!!!
 

I guess if the robot is supposed to make tacos then the mascot has to be a Chihuahua. Does that mean no more hamsters......

Mmmm... Tacos.. what if we could make a robot to not only serve tacos and drinks, but keep a salsa shark running.. That would be funny..


"Salsa shark. We're gonna need a bigger boat. Heh."

tacos.... mmmm, indeed
 

such a dearth of good americanized mexican food here... (esp. with it not being america and all). you know you have it bad when you're looking forward to coming home to the quality food of taco bell.



hey wait, that's it... use FIRST as a way to bring culture to the brits... in the form of fake mexican food! (don't forget the sour cream)



-ANkuR

if i were cleverer, you'd be reading a .sig now

Wait?! There's a team from the United Kingdom now?

Wow, when did that happen?

...I'm glad we stopped whining about travel expenses. Those folks from Brazil and the UK can have the floor.

Anyway, welcome to FIRST :)

Okay, the whole UK team threw me off a bit...but, you also have a team number between 716-800. That's the first time I've seen that. What I want to know...is how you guys found out about FIRST and what made you decide that you're flying all the way out here to compete. How many competitions are you going to?

Anyway, to stay with relevance to the tread...just out of curiousity, does that mean your robot has to be food/sauce resistant? I could imagine that it would be pretty bad if your robot accidentally spilled fire sauce on all the wires and such. And what happens if they spill everything on the judge? Is that a deduction (as well as having that judge hate you for the rest of the competition :))? I hope the judges brings a whole lot of spare clothing. :)

~Christina

is there some significance to being between 716-800?

i'm actually an exchange student from MIT, and i've done FIRST there (team 97) the past two years. coming here i thought it would be cool to bring FIRST overseas, and so i went around and found students who were keen to start a team. now we're working on raising enough money for it all. its my hope that soon there will be enough teams from around here to have a UK regional. =] and then our plans for world domination through the proliferation of taco wielding robots will reach fruition! FEAR THE HOT SAUCE!!! MUA HA HA!!!

err...

as of now we're only signed up to go to the NYC regional... we weren't sure about funding and whether or not it could all work out, so when we registered all the comps were waitlisted...

-ANkuR
shaping the future through liberal doses of salsa

*did a double take on the UK as well* Nice to see a FIRSTer spreading it around :)

And as for Tacos...

Love the food, but since some really disgruntled engineer at a large plane manufactuer sent taco chips in with her 401k paperwork last month to scare us with "anthrax", I think I'll have to pass on the Taco 'Bot ;)

~ lora

Me gusta tacos mucho. Me gusta hablar espanol, pero es muy dificil porque nadie habla espanol bien. Ok. enough spanish. I just like to speak it. I think i wanna minor in it in universidad. AAAHHHH!!! i can't stop!!! Plus, who would want to end the glorious soap opera of destinos????

Nosotros vemos Destinos? Esta es la programa mejor de todo el mundo! Mi clase ve destinos, tambien. Just thought I could impress someone with my Spanish knowledge. Los tacos son muy buenos!

Qu'est-ce que c'est tout ceci espagnol? Je ne comprends rien! Moi, I think we should have the robots make French Toast, even though it isn't french...the level of difficulty is much higher. I mean really, tacos is just assembling things. French toast is cracking eggs, adding milk, gently flipping the bread in it, and then grilling it for just the right time. I think we're up to it ;)

Flubber
 

Hey, in Flubber, the automated house bots made eggs, toast, and some other stuff. What's to stop us from doing it? Sure, pBasic can't do everything by itself, but actuation is why we, the drivers, are there.

Head spinning from all these languages.. Makes me forget why I'm trying to learn japanese.. Oh well.. As for most stuff, Tacos good, UK good, bacon and egg house good.. And everything is great.. Though this is now rambling..

Two words: Pizza anyone?

~Tom Fairchild~, who could also go for some tacos 'bout now.

Pizza...
 

Pizza is wet.

so is taco sauce and Mountain Dew but people said that our robots would have to serve them up; once again were back to the idea of water (or anything else that doesn't belong with electronics)