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MOE 2002
Hey everyone,
After seeing the pictures, not much explanation is required (or allowed by the adults for that matter), but I think you should get the idea we were going for with this season's MOE. We extend from what I've dubbed the 'fetal position' and extend to grip all three goals. Pushers can move the goal independent from the motion of the chassis. I'm not sure exactly what else I'm allowed to say, so if you have any questions, ask away. By the way, we're having some trouble naming this year's bot. So far the ones i like are "Su-MOE" and "MOE hawk." Comments/Suggestions/Questions are more than welcome. Fetal Position MOE 2002 MOE 2002 with wings deployed |
MOE bot
So this is MOE 2002. Its quite impressive that your robot can grab three goals. Aren't those extended arms vunerable though? Also are you sure you can get all three goals and keep a tight grip on them? Can't wait to see you guys in action at Drexel though.
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Moe 2002's Bot
I was just lookin at the Moe-bot 2002, let me be the first to say...holy crap!
Umm..I'd love to see video! Peace, Andy =) |
Great Looking Robot
Great looking bot !
Make sure that you surf by Metalinmotion.com and check out ours. We have many pictures and videos for your viewing pleasure, and also take a shot at our 'question of the day' and win a prize at the nationals. Don Taylor M-N-M Team 343 |
Robot? I know not this robot? You mean to tell me that we've been working on a robot and not a time machine?
As to video, I may have something buried on this hard drive |
Se ya in the pits. We'll be next to eachother (384 385) in VCU. Can't wait to see it in motion and what it looks like in person.
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Nice looking robot, but let me play devil's advocate for a minute.
While you have your arms deployed, what does your alliance partner do? He can't go over them and it will be hard to go around. You grab three goals, than what? You keep your opponents confined to their zone, you score 60 points (3X 20). Unless your alliance can score balls, it will be a low scoring round. Wayne Doenges *puts flame suit on* |
Is asbestos underwear an added cost option?
...want to hurl insults...
...so difficult... ...can't overcome flame suit... ...find self agreeing with Wayne... I totally agree with you, Wayne. Multi-goal scoring robots are going to be low-scoring robots, in and of themselves. They can win by themselves (especially with good drivers), but they can't score lots of points. They are going to have to rely upon their partner's ball scoring ability, and quality human players. Which is to say that they are going to have to rely upon their partner's ball scoring ability. By the way, that is one quality flame suit you have there. |
How we score?
Well, the thing about our robot is (and any other 3-goal-grabbing robot) is that we aren't designed to score big points. We're designed to stop the other team from scoring.
Qualifying matches don't mean much to us, we already know that we'll score low in them. But look at finals rounds, which are win / loss only. If we grab all three goals, we control the match. We get the points for the goals, not to mention the points of the other team NOT getting the goals. You must remember that this goes both ways. Hopefully, other teams will notice this, as we probably will not be on top in the qualifying matches. Hopefully this helps singe the flame suit a wee bit ;) |
MOEhawk.... the lime green and black stop sign.... hee hee hee...
Uhh... I don't know if we can talk about it yet, but.... we do have a certain other something on the robot that is supposed to do some other job that involves points.... uh, ok I'll just stop now.
[I hope that's vague enough for the adults Brian.] And Strath= "Back-up parts are GOOOD!" |
Three goal robots, in my opinion are going to get hit hard this year. Robots like ours (1 goal only) hit the goal at full speed (12fps) very hard. I can not see how three goal robots with the long arms extended are going to be able to hold on and 'control' the field with two other robots, possibly tanks putting everything they have into getting the goals. In addition 3 goal robots will have to be insanely fast to all three to get them, I have seen claims of 14 ft/sec and even higher this year so the goals will not be sitting pretty in the middle of the field. Time will tell but I hope everyone has many spares.
Don't get me wrong though I like your bot alot it looks very finished all painted like last years, ours is just plain silver. As for the certain something that scores points, from the picture it looks like a telescoping mechanism to touch your robot in another zone?? Did I win?? Bring spares for that too;) |
That was my first impression of this strategy as well. We definitley leave ourselves exposed on the field. I think I'm allowed to say, though, that we have those problems covered. Whether we do or not remains to be seen until VCU though. :)
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MOEhawk Team 365 Video!
I did some digging, and out we come with a 1.3 meg video. No sound, but we're sure you can imagine sounds of your own. Be sure to get the Globe motor *whir* just right for optimal effect.
www.moerobotics.org/robot.php |
Great looking bot , as always. And as always, the shirts blind the eyes.
The website looks good too. |
we're not planning on having high match scores. think of it this way, though; we're designed for shut-out matches, and if someone sees that we win every time, then we'll get picked as an aliance partner by someone who DOES seed.
ps - go spare parts! |
Calling 'em as I see 'em...
I am not going to say that team 365's robot is not a marvel, because it is very impressive. Thanks for the video.
But... I am really thinking that, unless I am very much mistaken, their robot is not likely to survive 2 matches in a row without serious damage. I hope they have built a lot of spare parts. I mean no insult, I am just calling 'em as I see 'em. Joe J. |
Very impressed with the bright green bot...hope to see you in action
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p.s. stupid washers |
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~Tom Fairchild~, who also wants to play against a three goal bot sometime just to see what its like. |
sorry to hear that you got banged up too. I was busy trying to find parts for ours to fix what we broke to watch that last match (which by the sounds of things from everyone, it was pretty ugly so I didn't miss much). but anyway, we're glad to hear that you're all right. we have some things to fix, but we know what needs work now and we'll be awesome by drexel. hope to play with you guys again soon.
simon |
If you saw 3.0 in the second match, you saw it all. It litteraly almost toppled over and only one wing went down half the way. The team that won sat behind us and shook our hands, great GP guyes.
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Stephen |
Yeah, MOE suffered pretty bad through that final elim match, but i think this short dialogue sums is up.
Match has been played, parts from robots are strewn all over the playing field. Referee hands Human Player our center gripper REF: Here's your center gripper. HP: Thanks... HP puts gripper on cart. d'oh! |
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Simon |
same here
yeah we thought a lot about just domninating the matches, it is a good but risky idea, best of luck to ya
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Howdy...
thanks again, 122, like simon said... good luck all at nationals and your next regional! it promises to be fun, i'll see some of you at philly i'm sure, and we'll be making a few modifications that will make MOEHawk beastlier than ever, a few structural additions, and some other things will be made/added at philly, so don't count us out yet! i hope everyone learned as much as we did at VCU, because strength is more imparative than ever... once again, good luck all!
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MOE bot
ps- stupid washers
yes Simon, I agree... STUPID WASHERS!!! And remember... we must wear our "pit-beotch" necklaces with pride. For only we shall be given the wacky pit jobs... like fileing the edges of 40 washers. oh well... It turned out to be fun. And my poor center pusher! (single tear rolls down face.) It never got to prove it's worth. Oh well... I heart making spare parts. And I also heart 122 -the NASA knights- your castle is very close to swanky, and you all know I luv you guys; You've been honorary MOE members ever since Science Day in DC. When we got to hang out at the hotel, the offices, that silly 'dinner' thing, and the train station together. To bad Dean wouldn't let us ride the I-bot. oh well... PS- Does MaryDawn post on Chief Delphi Tom? -Ducky- |
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and so we shall always have the stupid pit jobs. oh well, those jobs have to be done by someone (I only wish lou'd pick someone else). anyway, to dave's comment, we did learn a lot from richmond including what we need to change. now all we have to do is finish all these things by wednesday. I just hope joe doesn't make us stay too late, cause I like sleep. |
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~Tom Fairchild~ |
As one of the honorary MOE members who got one of the cool bandanas, I want to say I LOVE YOU MOE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are so the coolest!! I will have a shirt next...:D :D :D
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Simon... what is this 'sleep' you speak of? It is a forign word to me. Now MOE-tain dew and Frappachinos I understand ;)
Thanx Tom! (I think I have marydawns e-mail address somewhere from DC I'll have to excavate it.) And Alex... I think you're going to have to beg for a while if you want one of our swanky shirts. -Ducky- |
Believe you me she will find a way to get one of those "swanky" shirts!
Haha hope to compete with you guys again. Doug team 122 also a holder of the elusive green bandanna :D |
Well, I'm going to try and get one of your nice hats at Drexel. Maybe a trade with my own green bandanna. As for the issue of shirts, I have an answer, but it is in riddle form...
"If the shirt you seek is of green, quite bright. Then search for Jim with all your might. Look low, look high, look in the stand. For a 6'1" student with a green band. Bring a shirt of your own, nothing's free, size XL, and a trade shall be." |
Where am I going to find an x large shirt!!! Plus, this is probably ruining my chances, but you dont want one of our shirts, they are extremely ugly and boring!!!! =) I will just have to steal someone elses!! :D :D
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GO MOE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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MOE in philly
Well, the Miricle Workerz returned today from a rather interesting weekend in Philly this weekend. We ran into some problems early (grippers), but we overcame them to finish off the qualifying rounds with 5 straight wins. Kudos go out to the pit crew, as seemingly every time MOEhawk returned from the field, there was major damage that we needed to fix. However, every time MOE came on the field, we had a working robot to cheer for. I think that we have found many of our weak spots and have completed the neccesary tasks to fix them. We should have nearly all the kinks in MOE's armor strengthened by Nats.
PS. Thanks to team 433 the firebirds for picking us for the eliminations, we had a great time. |
yes, a big kudos to our pitcrew for the hard work. No matter how bad it was coming in, it always went out looking new.
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I'm exceptionally proud of the pit crew getting out a perfect wing in 15 mins. You guys are just great.
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Competition Team
Brian, Alex, and Rishad: You guys did great we won our last 5 matches-thats awsome!
I hope well get things straightened out for Florida. |
Straightened out?
Haha, nice pun aman, i'm sure it was unintentional, but i hope we get things "straightened out" too... thanks for picking us. firebirds! it was fun fixin' stuff- competition team, but not fun enough that we need to keep up our record. on behalf of the pit crew, your moral support after match 84 (was it?) was greatly appreciated, and needed, we were under a lot of pressure, but the result was a nice repair job, so, thanks to the rest of ya on the crew too! congrats, regional champs, cya'll in florida
-dave, the self-proclaimed best student hack-sawer on 365 |
HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! I told you I would get a MOE shirt!!!!!! Great Job MOE people at Philly!!!! You guys are awesome and I'll see you at Disney! Oh yeah, great job for Chairmans...
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Stephen, proud owner of a FIRST crew/staff shirt (I won it in a bet :)) |
MOE shirt
So, you actually got a shirt? Kudos goes out to you, there must have been an intense negotion process. Just curious, who'd you get it from?
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My dad has a crew shirt I could pass as my own. But I wanted one of those cool MOE jerseys. NO, what did I get, the stupid orange polo shirt! ;)
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Sorry Stephen, MOE shirts are SOOOO much cooler than crew shirts....didnt we go over this already???
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MOE STUFF
IF anyone out there wants a MOE shirt with Woody's signature and Dean's im saving it to trade at nationals but u better give me somethin really good for it!
PS: hey alex i dont think u got the moe captain hat! |
What do you want?
I have hats, shirts, etc. PS I also have a Dean Sparky 3.0 hat that I *might* give away if I feel generous (and I get something good in return!) |
I agree,our pit crew is amazing. I love doing pit. Especialy when the whole thing was there. It was a lot more fun in Philly than VCU due to the larger pit areas.
Thank you's go out to any teams who get stuck next to us, and tend to get us invading their pit area due to our large "wing-span". Thank you to Landsdale Catholic for their award. -For consistantly building robots that keep us up all night.- ---------- I also will have shirts to trade at nationals. i have one from last year and one of this years with dean and woodie's signatures. look for the only girl in the MOE pit. -with the green hard-hat. --------- Yeah, Chairmans award! -Ducky |
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I have to say that I'm guilty for the shirt, guys. don't worry though, I traded for one of nasa's shirts. |
Hehehe...I think I got the better end of the deal, our shirts are sooooo ugly....:D
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La dee da
well, since we're not really talking about our bot anymore, and we've kinda broken into some general chit-chat, i'll have a shirt to trade at nats too, i can't promise it won't smell bad though, i've got 2 and i have to wear them both. my bandana is mine though, and there will be so much grease and sweat on it that it will be completely unwanted. so, i'll trade one of my shirts for something equally schwanky.
-the self-proclaimed best student hack-sawer on 365 |
Moe Shop
Well, now we have enough merchandise to sell to other teams so i propose the Moeshop or MOebay
we can sell Dave's oily, greasy shirts along with clean ones from Andrea and Me! Wouldnt that be swanky! Aman |
If you really want to go back into discussion about your robot we can talk about how you guys are taking hacksaws to your poor arms and changing all the grippers, or is that not allowed and top secret???
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About the Bot
Well our poor hands have been working hard each night to make stronger and better parts. MOEhawk is still in surgery till tonight and hopefully will be better than ever! :-)(-:
PS: hey Alex it can't be 23 already! :-( |
I figured that we should put-up a post about MOE's weight. We had a lot of people asking about MOE's weight when we replaced our lightning-hole-filled arms with solid stock...
We removed the center pusher, which was 7 or 8 pounds... and even with the new wing parts we did make weight. With some to spare. -ducky- |
MOEhawk
Another thing to add to Ducky's comment of the robot. Many people have asked me about having "1 in. spikes" on our robot. FOR THE LAST TIME: WE DO NOT HAVE SPIKES ON OUR ROBOT!
aman |
Well Well
Another fine robot guys!! I just hope this year I won't have to walk around all week with a bunch of guys and green hair........you know who you are........... Well, I still owe you those pictures and I thought maybe for laughs I might even dye mine for you guys!! Well, I'll catch ya'll in FL.....
Michelle |
Since the discussion isn't really about anything, i am just going to post this message to get an even 90 posts.
also, how much for those awesome NASA jumpsuits? |
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w00t, we got noticed! If not, then oh...who else had the NASA jumpsuits? |
wetzel,
those ones. where did you uys get them, i have searched the internet but have come up only with skydving jumpsuits(in MOE green) |
Well, being a NASA team does have its advantages. :)
I am going to keep the souce of these a secrete for now. Maybe I will drop random hints in my posts. Maybe you will figure it out on your own. Bwahahaha... That and I think our filght team likes being unique.;) Wetzel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'm not on the flight team |
i understand, but dont think i am going to stop looking for them. You will know if i succeeded when i get to nationals, with or without my bright green jumper
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