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Im surprised to see so few replies about the rubber chicken keychains we hand out. At FLR I was getting pounced on when i was going around in the chicken suit with a bucket full of them.
my favorite swag would probably be any kind of small keychain that is neat or quirky, or maybe has a small amount of interactivity... though I havent really recieved anything like this. buttons never get old |
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this year team 549 made specail keychains that we gave to each drive team we played with...they were metal and we milled out " DEVIL DAWGS" on one side, and "549" on the other...people were asking for them, so i assume they went over well.
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time out............ why is team candy up there when you cant give out food, drinks, or candy at FIRST events. just thought id point that one out!!!
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this isnt for everyone, but 254 gives out their own awards at competitions, i think its kinda cool and fun . We won 254's innovative design award at sacramento this year, were honored with it :).
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The world of marketing promotions is indeed wide and wonderful. Just Google on "marketing promotions" for tens of thousands of ideas. I think these paddle balls with your team logo would be just the ticket.
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By far beach balls !
Team 330 beach bots kept me entertained freshmen year... @ the LA regional i mean there wasn't anything to do so we played with balls ran around the stadium etc.. LOL |
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At the BAE Systems regional we gave out fortune cookies, and the fortunes were made up by the team. They said things like "this cookie is the perfect cure for a mountain dew overdose" and another had something in binary i think it said team 836. they were pretty popular and we ran out quickly i don't know if thats is from other teams or my own eating them.
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TJ Squared gave out nifty tie-died wrist bands last year at SBPLI. It really made the place colorful. :)
There is also an Online Database that's hosted specifically for tracking comprehensive team information that also has a local application component to it. I think the Online Database is pretty cool and it would be especially useful once a lot of teams begin using it. :D The development team of that software also handed out an older version of the software last year at SBPLI. |
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Our original idea was to give out Alien(our mascot) Lollipops. However, we then found out that we were not allowed to give out food at the competition. A couple weeks ago I was notified that EBGames was going to sponser us. Now we are most likely going to give out EBGames Coupons...
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I have to post what our team did this year:
Throw paratrooper army men with 1073 written on their parachutes from the top level of BAE before opening ceremonies on Saturday. --Petey |
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Hey, I actually liked 540's last minute, cheap as all idea of a game. I don't know how they did it, and I don't know if it was any good. Anybody get one at VCU Regionals??
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my favorite are the squishy martin that the martians gave out at Finger Lakes Regional.
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What did 540 give out? I didn't get anything from them, I don't think? |
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Didn't go through every post to see if this was mentioned, but we gave out Sharpie markers with our logo last year.
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team shirts... or you could sell them for pretty cheap
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i like the little flashing bottuns and stuff :D :D
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Well, at the NH regional, I personally went around to each team's pit and gave them a CD with my trading card program so they can make their own trading cards... the handout that gives you handouts =P
Although at the regional... everyone wanted one of my mini-sombreros... hell, I even had most of them get stolen right out of our pit despite the fact that I hid them under a pile of stuff. I went in with 30 and left with 6... man, those were $4 each. If I could have handed them out, I would have... but I didn't have enough... I even saw 2 volunteers with one hanging from their laniard-identity-tag-thingies. |
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HELLOOoooo
Years ago the big thing was TYE-DYE MOE SOCKS from TEAM 88 a lot of people still have them check out teams 25,47,100,111, 126, 133, 190, 213, 501,885, 1073, even more. Maybe we will bring them back???????? It is always fun to see what different teams come up with. Had a super time in NH, SEE ALL in MD or GA GOOD LUCK TO ALL MOE and TEAM 88 TJ2 |
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Team 85 gives out shop rags. They look good but you can't eat them!
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How about this Team 122 Omniwheel pendant? Rollers roll, and in any color!
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Speaking of trading cards...
Logo Loc now has trading cards! And they feature everyone's favorite 2004 robot...Scorpius! --Petey |
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The coolest giveaway of all time will be given out at the boilermaker regional next week by 45...what could it be??? :p Seriously, I think its awesome!
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[slightly irrelavent]wow this thread is 3 years old [/irrelevantness]
Having spent a couple of hours just making about 100 pins/badges today i now understand why we only had 100 to give out last year lol. To be honest, anything a team gives out is cool |
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Team 1501 is handing out wing pins. Just like the pilots wear :D
Wayne Doenges Lemmings non sumus ps Kyle-45, save me a handout plz :) |
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Coconuts.
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I personally like what my team gives out. They seem to be a hit at regionals every year. We design and mill out keychains with cnc machines. Here's a pictuere of this year's keychain. The final design looks a little bit different. We actually actually started to sandblast them before the final cutting of the design so that the keychain has a cool sandblasted look with a shiny design for the cut out.
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we wanted to give out spent nuclear fuel rods last year (our team is sponsored by a nuclear power plant, dominion) but thenone of our mentors told us that was dangerous and wasnt funny. We still maintain that it is funny
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What I usually help out with and give out on behalf of Team 195, The Cyber Knights are picture CD's. This year @ UTC I was handing out Pictures of all the robots that attended the 2005 Copmetition in Hartford. I also when into my personal archives and found robots from 2002 and 2004 to put along with the 2005 bots.
I think that's pretty cool. You can remember great plays on the field and memorable times in the pit but I guarantee you may have a tough time remembering what certain bots look like! Lol. |
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That would be funny, AND safe. Just um.. don't bite the tips off the glow sticks and get any in your mouth.. yeah.. that's um.. not funny.. :o |
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that sounds sweet.
we gave out some magnetic flashing blue lights at FL. |
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team 842 gave out pieces fiberglass that came from our passed robots it was pretty cool
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That fiberglass must be cleaned off or something right? cause I know it really sucks to get that stuff in your hands.
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So says the voice of experience. *grimace* Anyway... our team this year decided to hand out bumper stickers with a picture of Bender on them and a cool little logo. |
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The handouts that stood out to me the most at UTC this year were given out by 236. They gave out "Tick" Tacs...nothing like edible handouts :) . The Got Bot? stickers were also quite nice.
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SOmeoine gave me a kazoo! (spelling?)
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How about a successful autonomous code from a team that uses the vision tetras??? EHH??? Any takers? (yes this is an offer)
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i know in previous years we have bought bags of english pennies and things over... dont know this year....
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Team Sticker Team Bumper-Sticker Team Candy i like these...lol we're gonna have an interesting bumpersticker...hehehehehe....but i wont tell u till we get them made! haha also, i got a flashing pin from the jesters and also a lay lol. oh and caution tape!!! we make buttins, BUT THE LIL ADOPT A DEVIL DUCKIE and also our beads are awesome! i think water would be cool...meebee food, but i might be afraid to eat it no offense |
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mini squirt guns oh yeah
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Oh come on, i gota have an option for shop rags. :) I mean, what could be cooler than a gift that keeps on giveing? You can fix anything with shop rangs. Just ask any member of my team at a competition amd they'll tell ya "You gota have shop rags".
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It definately wasn't on the poll, but the coolest thing i've ever gotten was a cow tail.
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So, you like our cow tails? For the Annapolis regional we have these cool keychains that open up and have a little screwdriver set inside of them. Sorry we didn't have them for Pitt....They came in the thursday we left to go to the regional, but we had already left. But hasn't anyone received any of our cow print bandanas that we have been handing out last year and this year and probably longer than i know?
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I think the little stuffed martians we give out are pretty cool.
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My team had tomahawks that we made. My friend traded two of them for one shirt. Thats probably the best trade I have heard of. Between a shirt and a representative item of the team, I'd pick an item (Like our tomahawks).
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One of the coolest things I've seen at the event in the past 2 days has been team 223's safety glasses. Completely functional, and to be honest a lot better than the ones we were using beforehand :p
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For anyone who's ever been to Great Lakes Regional (and Detriot this year too), after finals, before awards, we spread out through the stands and at a preassigned time start handing out our airplanes (balsa wood with sponsor names on wings, weighted nose; they fly very well...). It is the most amazing sight ever to see literally hundreds of airplanes flying down to the field at once. It's the paper airplane, improved.
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Hopefully at the Las Vegas regional and nationals we will be handing out poker chips. Cool? :D
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1072 had these awesome 1072 fishes that they gave out. Think the Jesus fish, except with 1072 in them. Ingenioius. See Pic.
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next year we are going to pass out silly putty
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Yeah and it's the first time I've ever heard FIRST tell people in the stands to stop doing something. That was HILARIOUS. You guys are wild. |
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i got some silly putty form one team and it is fun to play with
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Well, as much as I dislike tooting my own horn, I have to admit that our bumper stickers were pretty neat this year...a refreshing change from the usual pins. I just wish that I had been able to drag my camera around more often, they were turning up in the strangest places at MWR and BMR...refs, judges, our own robot, drivers, announcers, other robots, even vision tetras themselves!
I have to say, the dark safety glasses that the TechnoKats (45) dished out were great as were the earplugs from QC Elite (648)... I needed both pretty badly as both pairs of my previous safety glasses disappeared and my rapidly declining hearing isn't being helped by attending competitions. |
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the best thing that ive ever gotten was hand sanitizer from 204
but thats because im a stickler for hand sanitizer at the drexel regional sumone was giving out little blowing thingys that made a sound like a baby crying and everyone had one in one part of the stands and the announcer yelled at them it was fun |
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nothing -- give the money to charity
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At the colorado regional team 1552 were handing out yo yos with there mascot the cougar on it
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id have to say our team had the coolest handouts this year bar none...
sorry to all of you who like the slinkies and candy, but you cant beat ours :cool: this year my team (40) had a student design a double layered maze using CAD and AutoDesk. the maze was 2"x2"x1/2" and was red and white checkered (which matched the paint job on out robot and our team rugby shirts). it used a .1" steel bb that went up and down the paths and could fall through holes to the other side of the maze. we had about 60 to hand out at BAE and they went faster than you can imagine. we made 100 more for Waterloo and those went like lightening. the student personally designed them to be extremely addictive and aggravating to solve. fyi, we made another game like this last year and during break Dean Kamen and all of the judges were playnig with them. :) sorry to disappoint, but u cant beat those :D |
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Team 188's giveaways are decks of playing cards with the Blizzard logo on the back. (See my avatar) You probably haven't seen them, because they're extremely "limited edition," but every team at Pittsburgh and Waterloo got two packs each. So if you were lucky enough to get one :ahh: ... -SlimBoJones... |
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My team has been looking at givaways for nationals (yeah, it's kinda late for buttons)
One of the easiest and cheapest things we could come up with were Custom Linux Live-disks. Just remaster Knoppix, rip everything out and put in our favorite *nix programs and cool team wallpaper, and voila! Is this a good givaway, or should we stick to overpriced buttons? |
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Waterless hand cleaner. A favorite with those of us who are lucky enough to do lots of high fives. ;)
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The coolest thing I ever got was...ready for this? you better be sitting down 'cause this is gonna be big. The Somerville HS team (101 or 102) was handing out...ready?...BOTTLES OF HAND-SANITIZER THAT HAD BELT HOLSTERS ON THEM! Yeah, I know. You're probably thinking, "It's genius, how could someone have thought of something so simple, yet so marvelous??" They were sponsored by Verizon and were walking around with huge bags with frisbees, hacky sacks, buttons, THE HAND SANITZER, and other stuff.
At the Trenton Regional we all walked around flashing our new hand sanitzer holsters. That's right. I bet you wish you had one of these. Kudos to team 102...or is it 101? Mike F. Your next door neighbors, Immaculata High School Team 1279- cold Fusion Robotics. |
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Its team 102. GO 1403!!! |
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yea.. we give out these cool little medalions..
precision edge makes them with a lazer.. they are faily expensive.. i think 3$ a pop and we handed out over 300 at toronto and over 150 at GLR. . . .. *thanks to precision edge they were free :d.... we thought EVERYONE would have a lanyard we heard they were common giveaways and were shocked that many ppl did not have one to put the medalion on.. so ppl stuck another teams button's pin thru the hole at the top.. and then stuck it to their shirts etc.. .but i thought the beach balls (dunno team @ Toronto) and freesbees (frog force @ GLR)were cool ... and the ontario power light thingys were cool at toronto . .adn i didnlt get one :(.. . also team pins are REALLY nice but expensive.. we were thinking on getting one with the us/can flag crosing.. so ppl can use that to stick medialion to shirt. . but we ran outa promotional funding. . .. .we are already spending WAYYYY to much .. 75k USD total this year.. its been CRZY! at the nationals we are giving away first aid kits(pits), medialions, and robot inspection checklists(pits)... and i think buttons if we make them in time.. |
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how did you guys like our wrist bands the livestrong like ones that said RoBBE XTREME on them and do you think we should order them again next year?
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Since i was working all day to get one at Philly... Yeah... i'd recomend ordering them again nextyear.
I really liked the Lockhead Martin Visor one of the Philly Teams gave me while i was queuing. |
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Team 358 gave out silly putty, and will once again be giving it out.
We won't have it forever though so if your going to Atlanta come to our stands before its too late. |
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The coolest thing would be a team giving out copies of all the regional matches in full, ones that they have been to of course. Team 108 is awesome because they are doing this for nationals, you rock guys!!!
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We're giving out not only brochures of our team, but general safety brochures.
We actually may be seen giving out more than that, so check out Team 1676 in the Archimedes Division (www.teampioneers.com). |
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i LOVED that silly putty ! i got one :D.. i got a ontario power beacon but lost it .. it fell off my neck. . (i was the one with 5 lanylars of buttons around my neck).. gota get that picture for my avatar !
i thought bead necklaces were REALLy good giveaways (with team number sticker on them).. since they are light, afordable, and overall look cool!@ |
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I was a big fan of those shop rags team 85 gave out, and they came in handy too when we took apart our trannys.
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What did people think of 1394's strategy boards (full & half sized), and the commemorative postcards of the same theme that were handed out at nationals? Good idea that should be continued, or do people like buttons & the like more?
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The thing I liked the most was the laminated fields for use of strategizing. :) A few teams gave them out - I think we got one from 88?
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mmkay well you answered my question as I asked it- THanks! ~Dillon Compton Team 1394 |
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My team handed out MINI sharpies....we ran out on thursday. we had 200 of them and they were gone except for the 5 i kept hidden till Finals. They were great for anything. We will bring them back next year.
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To anyone we gave out the standard button, but to all the teams in the Curie division we gave out rearview mirrors screwed onto a piece of wood that said "quailty is a reflection of you". I was wondering what the curie teams though of them.
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Personally I liked the team that gave out those awesome tie-dyed head and wrist bands... Who were they? :yikes: and I liked the team that gave out buttons... Which team was that??? :p But the coolest thing was probably the silly putty... I love taht stuff and it kept me entertained... haha... |
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Yeah, I have a huge glob of silly putty that could entertain me for days. While this may not be the coolest thing a team could give out, team 1403 gave away pens. Of course, not just any pens, but the best pens I have EVER USED!! First, they were the smoothest gliding ballpoint I've ever used, second, they look cool, and third, they're compact and fit comfortably in even the pockets of tight pants. I declare the 1403 pen to be the king of click pens!! Did anybody else get one and think they were this awesome?
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team 88 gave out those tie die things.. (see my pic if anyone is wondering what were talking about)..
what did teams think about the robot checklist / safety guidelines that we gave out ? did anyone acually use them?? i know a couple rookie teams came up to me and thanked me cuz they said they had no clue of what to do...and it provided a base.. but what about all the veteran teams? i HAVE to thank team #1 for giving away pens at great lakes.. because it had a clip for shirt pockets.. i put a wirearound that and put on a lanyard , it is my lucky scouting pen/etc,, , ive used it soo many times and its good to know it wont explode in my pocket!! < aha you can see the yellow pen sticking outa the junk around my neck in the pic too :D |
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A few years back, we cnc cut soap molds out of wax with our team number embossed on the top of the soap. I can't remember exactly how many bars of colored soap I made, but it was a lot. I also added a label inside each bag that stated "This is soap, Not food", just because some of us where worried people may try to eat it. Definately got mixed comments bout the soap idea, some people thaught it was great, complaining they never got enough soap at the hotel, others thaught it was an odd idea, but it got our name out, and I thaught it was creative. Right now we are giving out buttons, and brochures. I remember in the past getting a lot of cool things, like the slinky. I forget the team number, but I still have a duck that I adopted, that may have been last year.I have a drawer full of stuff that i've accumulated, lke one team was giving out a small screw driver set, a barrel of monkeys, stuff like that. Ahh the good ol' days.
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my old team, 710 was giving out nalgene bottles with their logo and info, here's a pic of one they gave to dave:
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I thought our glow sticks were pretty cool.
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I really like team 980's pens. I use one everyday at school :)
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Well i love my Rolls Rocye pen i got from Cyber Blue. I walk up to people and say "ya know, i have a Rolls Royce" then i pull out my pen.
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Hmm what about those Timken stress balls, frisbes, and orange jelly beans 1071 was given to hand out at nationals??? (had to get the commercial in as we're on the verge of being the first major Timken backed team and not many people knew we were with Timken)
Unfortunatly we didn't know those stress balls and stuff we're going to go so fast. We only had 2 boxes of stuff, but I have been told it's almost guranteed we'll have 10 times more stuff for next year :-) |
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"What they were" is a small yellow flat bit of plastic that fits into a standard battery connector. "How to use them" is easy: fit them on a freshly-charged battery's connector to indicate that the battery is charged. In order to plug the battery into a robot, you'll have to remove the flag, of course. This works very well to keep from being confused about which batteries are charged and which are used. You can't forget to pull the flag off a battery when you use it. |
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yes! i love that necklace glow stick with like 5 colors. i dunno which team it was that gave it . . i also had two of the bracelet orange ones... it was awsome !
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The best thing that I recieve this year was a mini tetra key chain, its was so cool but then it broke 3 weeks later.Shucks
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Shirts all the way baby!!!!!!!!!
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73's led pins nice but airport x-ray guy gave me a hard time. I was not think went I put it in my backpack
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