Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker is the DOGMA .......... all playing fields link to Andy.

Re: Andy Baker
 

When a ball rolls under Andy Baker, the other alliance gets a penalty.

Andy Baker can expand into his Finale Configuration at any time.

Team 45's build season last for seven weeks; Andy Baker stops time in the middle.

The FMS had to be reprogrammed to display 4 match outcomes: Win, Loss, Tie, and Bakerized.
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When Andy Baker plays, the opposing alliance's score can be negative.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Bakers radio has never cut out.

Re: Andy Baker
 

In 2007, tubes only popped because Andy Baker hit them with his MIND BULLETS.

Re: Andy Baker
 

When Andy Baker expands into Finale Configuration, everything ends.

Vermeulen, I'd like to rewrite two of yours to better capture the magnificence of AB's GP:

When a ball rolls under Andy Baker, the ball joins his alliance as a 4th robot.

When Andy Baker plays, the opposing alliance is inspired.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker can suspend all 3 robots on his alliance by having each of them hang off of the one to its left, creating a triangle of levitating robots. Oh, and touching the tower too.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Superman and The Flash raced to the edge of the universe. Andy Baker built a robot that beat both of them.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Archimedes once told Andy Baker, "Give a lever large enough and a place to stand, and I can move the world." Andy Baker asked him why he needed the lever.

Re: Andy Baker
 

The Baker division remains empty for another year. The other 4 divisions are still playing for second.

Andy Baker can pick the same team three times in Fantasy FIRST--even when someone else has them. Then again, he already won FF...

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker beat 469....



...without moving


:yikes:

Re: Andy Baker
 

I think this puts it to rest.

http://xkcd.com/689/

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker does not put his pants on one leg at a time. Andy Baker's pants put themselves on, both legs at once.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker burns approximately 3,000 calories an hour when CADing.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker's version of CADding: He thinks of a cool design, and the computer is so scared that the drawings and machine code come flying out. CNCs everywhere tremble, then get to work. No "Export to Reality" button needed; whatever he just CADded shows up right in front of him, ready to run.

Re: Andy Baker
 

One time, Andy Baker beat out news about iPhones and gPhones and jPhones to make the front page of Gizmodo.

http://i43.tinypic.com/30kd5r7.jpg

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker invented the easy button.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker built a redirecting robot that took the balls away from 469 and scored them in his home zone.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker went to Einstein... with an FTC team.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker beat Chuck Norris at his own game.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker is the Green Ranger.

Re: Andy Baker
 

The Easy Button sends a direct line to Andy Baker's cell phone

Re: Andy Baker
 

When Andy Baker posts in Facebook, votes count.

Re: Andy Baker
 

If Andy Baker needs to get something done, he posts it on CD and we do it, no questions asked, no matter what it is:D

Re: Andy Baker
 

This is the best thread on Chief Delphi...and in fact, it was created by Andy Baker.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Hold on. JVN is Andy Baker? My life has been a lie...or, at least, the last three years of it.

Re: Andy Baker
 

There's a little bit of Andy Baker in all of us.
And there's a little bit of all of us in Andy Baker.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Before there was Andy Baker, there was just nothingness.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker teaches old dogs new tricks.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Sharks have a week dedicated to Andy Baker.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Some say that the Stig is merely the least awesome part of Andy Baker. [/topgear]

Re: Andy Baker
 

When Andy Baker holds an iPhone 4 in his left hand, the signal increases.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker plugged the oil spill by shifting an AndyMark transmission he installed in the well.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker can make a toughbox out of nothing but old AOL trial discs, elbow grease, and gumption.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Windows 7 was Andy Baker's idea

Re: Andy Baker
 

I hate to ruin this thread, so I'll throw one in after I ask my question...

Who IS this Andy Baker? I get that he's kinda like the Chuck Norris of FIRST (at least, judging by this thread), but who exactly is he?

Andy Baker has a 2010 shirt from every team... Even the teams that don't exist anymore. They made him one.

(Okay, yeah. That sucked. Sorry)

Re: Andy Baker
 

This is a part of who Andy Baker was and is. There is more. He is the Andy in AndyMark. He is also a very nice man and warm human being who has inspired many many people, including but not limited to - students, mentors, engineers, and friends.

(I'd like to take a moment to say how sad I think it is that the WFA/WFFA sections of CD have fallen into near ruin. It does not speak well of us as members and mods.)

Jane

Re: Andy Baker
 

Thanks, Jane, for the link and thanks, KeatonM for the question, I have been wondering for a while. Sounds like he is a great example of what FIRST is.

When Andy Baker's kids grow up we may need 3 of these threads.

Re: Andy Baker
 

[offtopicpost] Keaton, if you ever have any questions, CD is definitely the place to ask them. :)

Also, to anyone else, I highly recommend reading through the Woodie Flowers Honoree pages here. They're full of truly inspiring stuff.
[/offtopicpost]

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker makes events better by not even being there.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker knows the 2011 game--and the manual password.

He developed them back in 2000, but left the GDC to put out hints that mere mortals could figure out.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker has many sets of game pieces, but he chooses not share them becasue he is testing his robot to make sure it can handle them all...at the same time.

Andy Baker controls the game timer. His minibot is always the first to deploy

Andy Baker inspected my team's robot once. It got significantly better after it passed. (True story: Washington DC Regional 2009)

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker's robot is teleoperated by an autonomous robot.

Re: Andy Baker
 

I once had the pleasure of speaking with Andy Baker - He is one of the nicest, most down to earth people I have ever met in my entire life.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker's minibot starts at the top of the pole.

Re: Andy Baker
 

No it doesn't.

It starts at the top of all 4 poles. How, you ask? Simple, really. It's Andy Baker's minibot.


Andy Baker's robot has the following capabilities:
1) steal all 6 ubertubes in automode and place them all across the top row.
2) Grab all the logo pieces from his alliance's feeders and score them, top, bottom, middle.
3) Repeat for opponent's logo pieces, middle, top, bottom (gotta get seeding points somehow, you know)
4) Blocks opposing robots at their towers until the endgame.
5) Deploys minibot to the top of the pole at the precise instant that deployment can begin. It then travels partner, opponent, opponent, own pole before the opponent's minibots even think about moving.

Oh, and for the record: The mecanum/omni/nona/6WD drop-omni combination drive has yet to be equaled by anybody. It's also a swerve drive.

Please note: this robot has yet to enter teleoperated period. Andy Baker's gotten lots of coopertition points without his partners or opponents even carrying a minibot.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy doesn't need to climb the poles in LOGOMOTION.

He has his own mountain out here in the state of Washington.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Baker

He has his minibots climbing it right now....

in under 3 seconds....

Re: Andy Baker
 

Make that two!

At one regional Andy Baker had his own student assistant, after that we stopped the practice, because we realized there can only be one Clark Kent.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker upgraded his refrigerator to use a pair of CIMs. When he left the door open, the result was a storm that spanned over 2500 miles.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Chuck Norris wears Jack Bauer PJs, Jack Bauer wears Andy Baker PJs.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker's robot Operator Interface has only one button, the WIN button.

(Inspired by this thread on needing more inputs for a driver station)

Re: Andy Baker
 

Ninja-noun referring to a super awesome person that you never see because they have gone invisible to get a job done....aka Andy Baker

Re: Andy Baker
 

When Andy Baker starts a rookie team, it's actually a veteran team with a really, really high number.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker has a six-tube autonomous that does not incur penalties.

Re: Andy Baker
 

On occasion, Andy Baker has been known to dress up as a robot. Did anyone ever see Simcoe's robot and Andy Baker in the same room at IRI last year? I didn't think so.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Seeing Andy Baker and another person at the same time is not sufficient proof that that other person is not in fact Andy Baker in costume.

Re: Andy Baker
 

The only real Andy Baker dresses in a nun's habit. All others are impostors.

Re: Andy Baker
 

The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded each year to the person who can do the best impression of Andy Baker.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker owns the copyright to the words "Gracious" and "Professional".

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker's tautological powers are tautological powers. They're also Andy Baker's.

Andy Baker is Andy Baker.

Re: Andy Baker
 

If Andy Baker was somebody else, then that person would be Andy Baker.

Re: Andy Baker
 

The only thing that can slow down Andy Baker is an extra stage of gear reduction.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker is re-entrant.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Reported.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker has won the championships by himself by covering himself in aluminum foil and going against every robot in the competition.

Andy Baker's minibot makes the speed of light wish that it was faster.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker doesnt need a minibot to win a game.
Andy Baker has never missed a Logomotion human player throw to the top rack. 9001/9001 to be exact.

Re: Andy Baker
 

FIRST already was loud. Andy Baker's presence just provides exceptionally strong hearing protection that will.i.am had to overcome.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker has the 2012 game hints. All 45 of them.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker already knows the game.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Originally, the GDC had intended for the human players to be able to throw the basketballs over the alliance wall the entire time. Andy Baker then showed them why the HPs should be restricted to the final :30.

Eight nets were scorched beyond repair.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker has balanced all six robots on one bridge... at the same time.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker can balance form the side of the bridge.....legally

Andy Baker is the game piece for 2013, but only his can use him.

Re: Andy Baker
 

When people say that Chuck Norris has another fist underneath his beard I scream NO! I say Andy Baker is underneath that beard.

Re: Andy Baker
 

I thought Chuck Norris was under Andy Baker's beard?

/disclaimer/ for those who don't think Andy has a beard, it isn't visible to mortals /disclaimer/

Re: Andy Baker
 

Who's Andy Baker?

*Gets smitten by his almighty wrath*

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker is:
--A former mentor of the TechnoKats (FRC45)
--He left because he was starting a rookie team at his daughter's high school (I want to say FRC3940).

Andy Baker is also the Andy in AndyMark, and it's not secret why it's not called MarkAndy (Mark Koors V2 has omniwheels!). (Jokes from earlier in this thread.)

Oh, and a WFA recipient, and rumored to be part of the band Dean Simmons and the Kamen Brothers.

And yes, he can still build a robot to score all 18 balls into the top goal autonomously and then cycle through retrieval and shooting of all of them until putting a double balance on all three bridges (in eliminations, that's a triple balance on his own and a force field to block the other bridge). In fact, he finished it in Week 1. He just hasn't deployed it in competition.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker doesn't start "rookie" teams.

(Seriously, just watched his team balance today in practice. They look like they have about 8 years experience or more.)

Re: Andy Baker
 

I was only kidding. I do know who Andy Baker is, but I didn't know all of this!:yikes:

Re: Andy Baker
 

Funny story: We were having trouble with our motors (RS550's) in a Double Doozy, so in the middle of the Fingerlakes Regional, we called Andymark. Who picked up? None other than the legendary Andy Baker. He gave us some advice which we are now implementing for DC. What a guy!

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker beats his opponents 130-0. In autonomous.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Rumored???

Oh yea, Andy Baker personally pulled Delphi out of bankruptcy. :p

I'm a Technokat 45 alumni and own a Dean Simmons & Kamen Brothers t-shirt.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker will someday tell his grandkids that he was a young lad he designed a way to walk to school downhill both ways.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Actually, he walked omnidirectionally without loss of speed or torque, with an intuitive control system, and without additional complexity.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker has a rookie team going to the Champs, and a supplier booth to worry about, and a talent show to help run on Saturday night, and he still signed up to be an inspector.

<Sigh> I bow to his perrenial awesomeness.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker is the King of the Queen City.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Hey! Maybe there's more than one of him?

Re: Andy Baker
 

Sounds about right... and they're all walking downhill to St. Louis and back.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Thou art Andy Baker.

Goo goo ga joob.

Re: Andy Baker
 

How awesome would it be to be inspected by him?

Re: Andy Baker
 

Be careful what you wish for - you might just get it. :D

Student: "Couldn't we just do ..."

Mentor: "Um ... You want to try to get that past Andy Baker in inspection?"

Re: Andy Baker
 

When Andy Baker inspects, Al S. steps in to shield the students from the awesome engineering aura that Andy Baker generates, not to answer any inspection questions.

A full dose of the aura is enough to turn the most diehard liberal-arts student into an engineering student, and an engineering student into a genius. (Evil genius is also possible--but the evil part doesn't come from Andy Baker.)


(Al--I can never spell your last name right...)

Re: Andy Baker
 

Everyone is afraid of Chuck Norris, except Andy Baker. This is because Chuck Norris was originally built as Andy Baker's one and only entry into the Battlebots competition. (After all the other competitors fled in terror, Andy Baker realized the possibilities for law enforcement, and donated Chuck Norris to the Texas Rangers.)

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy came over and inspected our robot at SVR! :D

Andy Baker can balance 4 robots on the same bridge....in autonomous mode.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker doesn't need to use the co-op bridge to get the #1 seed.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Chuck Norris dresses up like Andy Baker for Halloween.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Most editors at Merriam-Webster use THIS philosophy when deciding new words and pronunciations to be added to the dictionary.

Andy Baker is the Chuck Norris of first.
 

Ok Do you best Andy Baker (Chuck Norris) Facts.

When Andy Baker pokes you on facebook your PC explodes

Andy Baker's robots can hit you so hard that he can actually alter your DNA.

Re: Andy Baker is the Chuck Norris of first.
 

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=45474

Andy Baker is so awesome, he gets TWO CD threads!

Re: Andy Baker is the Chuck Norris of first.
 

Andy Baker put his phone on air-plane mode and flew it.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker built an endgame mechanism for this year, and has told the GDC to add that endgame in the next Team Update. :rolleyes:

Andy Baker's robot climbed to level 3 of the coopertition pyramid last year, in 6.39 seconds, powered by a single, frc legal servo.

Re: Andy Baker
 

When Andy Baker decides his drive team needs a little bit more practice time and that a day off would do them some good, it snows 12 inches throughout Indiana and everyone gets a snow day. I'm referring of course to the snow storm immediately after kickoff. Because Andy Baker built a robot that could cycle for max points in 3 hours.