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Yeah, our neons didn't fair so well either. I think the converter or whatever it is blew when it arched and burnt my finger. Oh well. I think we voided the warranty anyway. But they were only $30. I zip-tied my $500 camera to it once, which was a lot more risky...but we got some great shots.

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Our neon issues resulted from impact, not wiring faults. 6-gauge butt connectors are ALWAYS funny, though.

When people screw up, we usually give them the prize, which is awarded by yelling "YOU WIN THE PRIZE!". Sometimes we also give the recipient the actual physical prize, which is a bunch of zip ties attached to a plastic bag. Very dignified and all that.

We have also developed an unhealthy obsession with the following, which is simultaneously hilarious and good at explaining our autonomous features:

http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~cdhall/Space/AFGUID.wav

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Dam you stole my idea or did you......

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Our team, more specifically our mentor Mr. Cokeley, has developed an unhealthy obsession with a certain online video clip featuring a curious cat who jumps onto a ceiling fan, goes around a few times, then slams into a wall. Our entire team finds the video quite amusing, actually. It's good stuff.

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Our team also has a "kitchen" and "garage". The kitchen is for people who screw up. And the garage is for people who don't. Currently I and our teachers are in the kitchen. I broke the robot and LeGate is in for good for numerous things. Franzenburg is in for saying May instead of March for Chicago on LIVE television.

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HAHAHAH - i like it ;) sounds like dead reckoning if i ever heard of it :)

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More like inertial navigation - which, as it happens, is what we're using during autonomous mode. We're planning to memorize the entire thing so we can recite it if anyone asks us about our autonomous capabilities. :D

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Shwaha nothing as interesting at what the other teams do. Mostly making fun of our piece of a robot this year.

We built a full size field in the school gym this year, including buying every last one of the necessary balls. Resulting, of course, in massive dodgeball games.

Two years ago we had an extremely amusing incident where we were testing the functionality of an old robot in our main workroom. One of us (Can't remember who) was driving our first ever robot, trying to get it running for the school assembly. Unbeknownst to him, myself and another member turned on the previous years bot just across the room. Neither was tethered, and both robots were set to the same team number. The result was a large dent that is still in that teachers parts cabinet. Good times.

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246 also generates a large number of wacky quotes. For example, today's meeting yielded "I wonder how many gerbils it would take to make a bandsaw run at the right speed".

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every team has some thing wild about them. One thing my team: #47 do and i love best is every Saturday, we have "Breakfast Club" i love breakfast club!!

-nAnCiE-nAnCie_47
*always keep your smile up* :D

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Another thing that I forgot to mention was that our team always plays Twister at our hotel every night. Maybe teams at Chicago and Atlanta could also play too.