Re: Re: Re: Hovercrafts!
 

I've witnessed it.

I went thru all my negatives, but I do not have a picture of it.

It wasn't quite legal however. It was powered with 4 drill motors, and I believe it was constructed by FIRST.

I like 1997's Placebo best. A hoover upright vacuum. Slightly modified.

I'm not digging for photo's of it. :-)

I will post photo's of older teams right after I finish scanning them

Since everyone was asking, I'm doing old home week on pictures.

These are from the first season that TJ² competed in.

Here's one for Tigerbolt, I don't know if any pictures of their National Championship robot survived the team breakup and reformation

http://www.tj2.org/1996/imagepages/tigertron.html

For all you Human Players, this is the Human Player station
http://www.tj2.org/1996/imagepages/playerstation.html
Notice, if you will that each player is seatbelted into the floor.
It's a little cut off, but in order to pass the balls back onto the field, they had to go over the white cross bar. (about 5 feet even) Also notice our first, bad, attempt at tie dye. Yes, we've had it since day one.

Here's an overview shot of the field.
http://www.tj2.org/1996/imagepages/96hamp1.html

Since buzz won the regional award at New Jersey, and we found out that thier rookie year was the same as ours, he's a picture for them.

http://www.tj2.org/1996/imagepages/buzz.html

Here's one of Dean and Woodie at the awards cerimony. (Back when they both would appear at the same regional

http://www.tj2.org/1996/imagepages/96hamp19.html

And finally, just to prove that history does repeat itself.
http://www.tj2.org/1996/imagepages/96hamp20.html

Last one,

Did anyone every wonder where the no pinning rule came from?

http://www.tj2.org/1996/imagepages/96hamp16.html

That was our postition for 1 minute and 20 seconds of the match.

autonomous robots
 

Some year we should have autonomous robots. Put the robot on the field, turn it on and no human interaction again until it is time to take the robot off the field. This would make the programming a lot more critical. (Anyone guess what I teach? :D )

I believe Lego League is like that, isn't it?
And that way you can't adapt your strategy as the game evolves, as things change in what you were thinking.

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mpking, Dean and Woodie were together in the second day of the Pacific Northwest Regional in Seattle this year. :)

Dean's Face
 

Look at Dean's face watching that pinned robot.

hehe, so now we know....

Who wants to claim responsibility for the entanglement rules now? :)