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That is one cool looking robot! Can't wait to see it work. I will get a closer look at Nats.

Good job TechnoKats!

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Do you know what your robot reminds me of? Those little game machines where you use the claw to get a prize. Just the arm and that box remind me of that. Oh well....

Good job guys, can't wait to see you at Nats.

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I'm not going to steal the TechnoKitties thread because I hate when people do that, but keep checking the gallery, it will be up as soon as Brandon approves it.

Andy & the rest of the Kokomo crew, you have a wonderful bot. I heard rumors from the spies we sent over that it was a killer design this year and they were right. It looks like you'll be a top contender as always. Good luck and I can't wait to see it perform at GLR.

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Looks like a great machine...some of us hope to see it up close in July, 2004.

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Today I found some pictures on the Technokats webpage. They are located under the Picture Gallery.

Here is one of the better ones.

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Is everybody scared yet? :ahh:

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Thanks, Rickertsen...

You caught us. One secret feature of our robot is that it is an "ion lift" hovercraft. We needed about 2,000,000 volts to pull it off, so we put about 50 of those transformers together so we can now hook the bar. (we had our freshmen hook it up)

Shhhhh... don't tell anyone at IFI.

Andy B.

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Sorry, we don't do everything..., we can't grab a goal and pull it, but we can push it around.

Also, my favorite pictures are here (us with 1992 going in as a ball) and here (us with 1998(national champion) and how close they look).

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Simply put - Amazing.

I wouldn't expect anything less from you guys :]

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I would think that your operator could come up with some way to manipulate the goal if he/she really needed to (most likely with your arm).

Did you guys ever have troubles with the balls getting stuck by bridging or any other way? This happened to us before after many tweaks we were able to get the balls to come out.

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Meow.

During testing, sometimes balls would get jammed up and stuck and to an extent they still do. A lot of it was due to just because it was the operator's first real attempts in releasing balls. But after crack time with it and a few modifications it really shouldn't be much of an issue..

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Actually, we can pull a goal. With our arm. :-D Not one of our best functions though, but 100% possible... and proven. lol

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It looks like you guys have taken all the energy that usually goes into the high tech track drive systems, and put this energy into building a true "do everything" robot. TechnoKats have done well playing the FIRST game in varying ways, including '99's very specialized near-champion defense machine, the year after the "do everything" 1998 champion. This year's machine appears the opposite of specialized, and definitely looks like a potential champion. I'm looking forward to seeing that funnel work, and hope we end up in the same division at Atlanta. Best of luck, TechnoKats.

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Maybe? :)

I'm still chuckling over the names Oconomowoc, Kokomo, and Mukwanago all coming together.

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I love how the whole robot works with itself to accomplish the tasks. Most of us were silly and put our arm in the middle of our robot (thus sacrificing space to hold small balls), but this robot did it the smart way...