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RoboNexus was fun. As for our robot, it broke too many times, only hanged two times, never really made it off the floor. The darn hook-extention mechanism gave out on our last round, talk about timing.

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Ours went well. I was extremely happy since our bot got up on the platform on autonomous using code i had just guessed at and never tried out. We have a few interested sponsors and a couple of great ideas from the seminars. We are also looking to possibly purchase from a few of tge vensord there. All-in-all, i would say it went great for us.

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Gracious professionalism at Robonexus

I would like to thank Team 972 and Team 1151 for their gracious professionalism that that they demonstrated at Robonexus this past weekend. My family and I, all FIRSTers, were involved with the SERVO magazine sponsored Tetsujin competition at Robonexus. One of the teams, team Raptor, had a battery issue and was wondering where they could find some high capacity SLAs to help their hydraulic pump function properly on their exoskeleton, Pinch Point. Knowing that FIRST teams were in attendance, my sons went to ask for the loan of some batteries. Both Team 972 and Team 1151 gladly said yes, even though they were in the middle of their own competition. This assistance helped Chuck and Bob Pitzer’s exoskeleton to lift the heaviest weight of the weekend, 1140 lbs!!

It was a great event with many interesting displays and many influential people in attendance. It was cool to see Dean moving about the place on his Segway, though I almost did not recognize Dave Lavery without his Hawaiian shirt…

Check out SERVO magazine. The September, October, and November issues, have articles written by FIRST Team members about this year’s experience. Look for the fourth installment in the December issue.

Thanks again 972 and 1151!!!

Bill Woolley

PS: Congrats to Dan Rupert (Team 812) and Donald Engh of Team Techno Trousers for third place in Tetsujin. . Great job!!!