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Team 229 looks pretty lonely up there in the frozen north!!!!
(Not like there is enough civilization around there to create another team :yikes: )

Kristin
(Former team 229 member)

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We demo'd the robot for the local amish, but they didn't seem interested in starting a new team. Ahh well.

JVN

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I hope you didn't forget to mention that wood is an allowable material and you're allowed to use springs to store energy. :p

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YES, in NYC we are resourceful!
And any material found in a construction disposal bin is good construction material! ;)

Hint from a Professional Collector:
Scouting for and collecting these valuable raw material is best in the spring and fall season. Summer is too hot and smelly.
I favor alumn. tubing from broken lawn chairs, old lady's grocery carts and old baby carriages. (wheels baby!) :yikes:
I can't never pass up a broken lawn mower or a vacuum cleaner.
;)

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Yeah, I don't think the rules specifically state that we must use a battery. Just have a really, really powerful spring. :D

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Can the robot controller be adapted to run from steam power?

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Interesting. I'm not used to looking at relief maps of New York. It looks to me like, at some time in the past, Lake Erie covered a lot greater area.

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I do believe you're right.

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I'll also guess that's where they got the "Watertown" name from! ;)

I'm in Watertown, CT but I've never been to Watertown, NY. I know it's a lot more rural up there than it is here. I wouldn't be surprised if Lake Erie suddenly swelled up and covered Watertown, NY we wouldn't know about it for days if not weeks! :yikes:

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You mean Lake Ontario. That's what you get for not visiting me in Rochester ;)

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They should actually call it snowtown. They get nuked in the winter by Lake Onterio. I wonder if there are records of their snow totals. Probably twice more than Syracuse.

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I see that there is only 1 team around Binghamton (145). There is a very skilled, untapped resource there. A company called Universal Instruments is headquartered in Binghamton. Universal sells automated production equipment (aka: robotic work cells) for the electronic and semi-conductor industry. The division of Delphi that I work in (Electronics and Safety) buys tons of equipment from them, and they are a world leader in this area.

Go bug, 'em!

Andy B.

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This is quite a bit of a tangent but I just wanted to point out that the Amish (specifically, the Old Order Amish; the Beechie Amish will drive cars) have no problem with electricity per se. They do have a problem with relying on an outside source for something. This is why you'll see some Amish have windmills that power electric generators. However, rubber tires are right out.

I bring this up as I have some Amish heritage (my grandfather was born Amish).

Matt

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Yeah. What he said. Still, there's no guarantee I would get the right name even if I came, though. :p