I Forgot to add somethign!!!
 

HeHe how many teams do YOU know of that foes out back behind thier pit to feed GOATS.......yes REAL LIVE goats......SPAM in order to make nosie makers out of the can!!!
WE DO! Yes we fed GOATS many cans of SPAM!!
......Thinks where are those goats this year......opppssss


Love ya all!!!
Nicole
Team 180 SPAM!!!

RE: what makes your team unique
 

Hmmmmmm

This was a tough question but I did come up with a few answers.

top 10 reasons MOE team 365 is unique:

1. MOE Green (who else has thier own color?)
2. ability to put 1800 holes in one piece of aluminum
3. More Green
4. Shirts
5. Green Robot
6. MOE sticks (if you have gone to a regional with us- you know what I mean.
7. Bandanas
8. we hand out earplugs
9. We have a guy named Action Joe
10. Oh-oh-oh-oh clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap Go MOE

i know a team...
 

Any guess what team this is?

Made up of 20 students from not one, not two, but 4 rival, inner-city high schools.

7th year in competition.

Until this year, no major financial sponsor. Financed completely by community donations and fundraising.

Technical support provided by a local, family-owned company.

Only about 5 engineers, total.

Students build entire robot, except for parts that students cannot make due to school-district safety regulations.

Students are best friends. Team members go bowling every week together. A former team member changed the date of her birthday party this year because the team had a meeting and no one would've been able to come.

In the off season, many students work for another company owned by the family of their technical sponsor.

One of the most successful small teams in the history of FIRST.

Any guesses?

Team 365 also has The Uppet, the original super tall 130 pound puppet mascot that was the most photographed thing at nationals last year. Major props to Ducky for hauling that thing around. We are probaly the only team to ever giveaway holographic stickers.
We have a Green Crate with most of the team member's signatures. We made a custom pit with a drill press, vise, programmed LED Board and string of green lights that say "GO MOE". Our Pit Crew rebuilt a completly destroyed wing (very complex and huge) in less than 15 mins (I'm not taking any credit for that I was only a tool runner).
We also have SuperJake, our national champion driver and captain and the most dedicated and enthusiastic team member ever. He has been with the team for all three years and has even had a major influence on the team this year despite the meetings he had to miss because he is in his freshman year at Drexel. See ya at nationals Jake!

Hmmm.... what makes the N.E.W. Apple Corps unique? Well, first off our robot is all designed, machined and built by students. We have a shop at our high school where we make *most* of our parts. If the parts aren't made there, students go over to the tech and use machines there. Our motto (Student Conceived. Student Achieved!) reflects that. We also have **awesome** support from the area. Some of our biggest supporters include Plexus Technology Group, Kimberly Clark, Appleton Area School District and Fox Valley Technical College (thanks everyone!!) where we get all of our advisors from. We have cool swappables this year (including carmel apple suckers - yum!!) AND we'll have a soccer ball in our pit area at Motorola Midwest for people to sign!! ;)

- Katie

118
 

What makes the Robonauts Team 118 unique? I have a lot to say, I’m in college now and miss being on our team. We are one of the first FIRST teams in Houston. NASA/JSC means something a little different to us than other teams because not only do they sponsor us, we work on-site at Johnson Space Center. Up till 2001 we have worked in JSC’s building 9. Building 9 is the building that houses full sized shuttle mockups that the astronauts train in. Parts of our robot have been machined in the same machine shop as flight parts for space shuttle missions. Now we work at NASA’s Sonny Carter Training Facility. It is home to NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab or NBL, one of the largest swimming pools (there have been many late nights where a dip in the pool didn’t sound too bad). We work next to a giant baked potato looking thing. Actually it is a backup space station truss module that is covered with some protective wrapping. Some of our NASA engineers, Rob, Bill and Fred, have been on the Discovery Channel’s “Inside the Space Station” talking about their Robonaut arm project. This robot will replace astronauts in some space walks for the space station and has very dexterous human-like hands. Lucien and Scott, two of our other engineers, have started many FIRST teams and some even in other states. Not to mention the other great engineers on our team, hey there veredyw. At nationals every year we hold an engineer vs. student water fight. From the time we get into Florida the war is on. In 2000 the war encompassed most of All Star Music. People were getting thrown in to the pools. People were staked out waiting for engineers with waterguns. Us students even used radios to talk to each other. In 2001 we had a set time and held it in this field just outside the FIRST complex. We even had people form other teams join in. Finally at nationals last year our cart had a lightbar and siren from a real cop car and is made from the front end frame of two Chevy Malibu s. That’s all I can think of for now. Im just glad I had the privilege to be on a team with the great resources and people we did.

Well here it goes, now that our secret system was unveiled at NYC FIRST, "I" can let you in on it, and more importantly stop dropping these crazy subtle hints; ie: "see" & "I".

A mini press release if you will:

The 2002 Robot

The Watertown High School Sie-H2O-Bots have created the 2002 PAL (Professionally Automated Landrover) to be a combination of simplicity and robustness. The machine uses a total of eight motors to function. These motors include three Bosch drill motors with planetary gear transmissions, one Fischer-Price motor with a custom built planetary gear transmission, two power window drive motors, one air compressor with 120 psi capacity, and one small servo motor. The final product is a durable, fast robot with good maneuverability.

The robot consists of two operating systems controlled via remote control through a computer-generated program. The two systems control the locomotion of the robot as well as a grasping system to capture and release goals. These two systems will allow the team to score points on the field by maneuvering the goals into different positions of the field.

PAL 2002 utilizes a 4-wheel drive system. The primary drive system consists of two wheels located on the east and west sides of the robot. These propel it forward and backward with tank style steering via two flight sticks in the driver’s hands. Speed is achieved with the click of a button, which activates two small air cylinders, shifting the drill motor drives from low to high range and vice versa.

The secondary drive system wheels are located on the north and south side of the robot. They are engaged when the primary drive wheels are raised off the floor and the secondary drive system is lowered. In this position, the robot moves from side to side. The tank-style steering drives are toggled by the student driver who, at his or her discretion, regulates the speed, power, and direction they deem necessary. During driver training, the ability of the robot to rotate around the goals proved to be a valuable asset. It enabled the robot under strong power to slip out of normally pinned positions with other ambitious robots.

A pneumatic system consisting of an air pump, storage tanks, regulators, valves, flow controls, and actuator cylinders is used to give the driver the luxury of switching drives instantly at the squeeze of a trigger.

The grasping systems consists of two “fork plates” that are located on the north and south side of the robot. They are ¼” aluminum plate shaped like a fork. The controls are designed to deport the fork arms by raising them vertical to horizontal from the profile of the robot, like short wings. When driven into the goal structures, the arms will automatically grab and hook the goal. The second driver controls each fork arm independently with a small control box at the driver station. Lowering the arms and driving the robot away releases the goal.

The team’s very ambitious electrical team has developed sophisticated controls, wiring, and programming to navigate the machine. The navigational system compliments the robot design very well. Important symbiotic relationships continue to develop between the electrical and mechanical systems as well as between the drivers and driver feedback systems.

The electrical team of students and engineers has created a system that would enable independent control of the machine by a visually impaired driver. Code named I.D.A.N. (Intelligent Detection, Analysis and Navigation), the system allows the robot to provide audio feedback to a laptop computer.

The cornerstone of this system is a tiny magnetic sensor that will read the earth’s magnetic field. The signal it sends out will identify the direction the robot is facing. This information also establishes the robot’s location within the five zones of the playing field. An optical switch receives a signal every time the robot moves over a line of white tape bordering each zone.

The robot has been installed with optical switches on servomotors, which allow it to “scan” for the goals and correct its path automatically. The optical switches respond to the retro-reflective properties of the tape on each goal. A pressure sensor inside the robot arms will determine that the goal is secure. The Sie-H2O-Bot team looks forward to gaining extremely valuable experience with this very sophisticated system as the season progresses.


Our experimental "Blind Drive" system won us the leadership in controls award in NYC as well.

Oh, don't you see, all your teams are unique for the very fact that you are participating in FIRST. FIRST is a rainbow of uniqueness. Everyone is unique, and everyone is a winner.

Hey, look, i could be dean kamen!

Expect to see me in your pit Thursday morning at nationals - I have got to see this! It seems like you went all out on the custom circuit board allowance.

Awesome, come check us out by all means. It's still an expierimental device but I do know that the compass part of it does work! And very well at that!

What's unique about TJ²?

1) Tie-dye (shirts, socks, hats, pants, we've done it all!)
2) The original thunder-sticks (now banned from FIRST competitions)
3) The ORIGINAL Moe (before team 365)

also, if anyone wants to trade shirts in Florida, let me know

mmurphy@inspirationinc.org

Ok so what are these "thunder sticks"?

We are the specials
 

If you smell-l-l-l, what TRIMANTIS is cooking ! :mad:

This is why I think our team is special:

1. We started with 40 students and 2 mentors, we have 15 students only...others did not participate.

2. Our Robot is named TRIMANTIS, it has nothing is triplets !!

3. We are rookie team and our robot is relatively pro.

4. We were led by a computer teacher and we also were helped by a tech teacher.

5. I believe, we got only one girl on the team, she is a good team participant.

6. All high-school students.

7. Every body on the team ( that is 15 students) are dedicated students.

8. Our robot, part of our TEAM, has a special armor !! Aluminum :)

Now tell me, that how special is my team... rate 1 for least special and 5 for most special

I will say 5 !

Hehe Haha

Can you dig that, sucka!

Those sticks MOE uses.

thunder sticks
 

A thunder-stick is basically a stick that has a team logo at the top. The sticks are pounded against the ground to make a loud rumble. Last August at the FIRST forums, it was brought up that t.s.-like devices had caused several thousand dollars worth of damage in Philadelphia. It wasn't us (we competed at Rutgers that year), but nonetheless, we were asked to stop using them at competitions. We had to cut them up to use as drumsticks. As far as i can tell, there is only one stick left somewhere in New Hampshire.