Count the Rivets!
 

This year, at the Championaship, Team 1501 will be bringing the ever popular 'Count the Rivets' contest. Guess how many rivets are in Team 1501's robot and you could win a 1 gig MP3 player.
The contest is simple, the closest to the actual count, without going over, wins. Hint: The total is NOT 1501. Only one person knows the actual count...Me :D
The MP3 player is sponsored by http://www.mrplc.com/
See you at the Championship,

Re: Count the Rivets!
 

ooo sounds cool

Re: Count the Rivets!
 

is there a picture of the 1501 robot somewhere? I looked on the THRUST home page, didn't find any links to pictures.....

I like rivets :)

Re: Count the Rivets!
 

Rules are no pictures on the website until after the season is over ;-). Actually until after the robot is shipped. So the kids should be posting some shortly.

Here is a picture.

And some videos:

Low quailty YouTube version: Stream Video Version 2.0

Low quailty Windows Media: Download 5.3MB video 256/Kbs WMV (recommend right click download)

High quailty MPEG2 version: Download 124MB video MPEG-2 DivX Version 2.0(recommend right click download)

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:eek: You're lying, aren't you. It's a plot to keep the mp3 player for yourself. :ahh: Well, I'm onto you. Expect someone to guess 1501, and know that that person will take home the prize.:yikes:

Re: Count the Rivets!
 

700

Thats my guess. I did a rough count, and thats my aproximation.

Re: Count the Rivets!
 

The guessing will commence at the Chanpionship :D So hold your guesses.

Re: Count the Rivets!
 

We will be taking guesses Thursday and Friday. We will give out the prize Saturday morning.

Got rivets? We do.

Re: Count the Rivets!
 

The final count was....................1614 rivets :ahh:
The winner of the MP3 player was Mike McGeorge of Team 1506 with a guess of 1486. Congrats Mike

Re: Count the Rivets!
 

and of course the irony of this is that anyone who had guessed 1501 would in fact had won, just because its even closer....

:p

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and they also went and swapped out the rivets on Thursday....just to make it more confusing...

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Lol......our 2 sets of wings were identical in the sense of how many rivets we had, so we didn't cheat. :p The only difference was our holes we created in the new wings with dimples to increase traction. :)

Re: Count the Rivets!
 

Jim,

It sure was nice talking with you, and thanks for the great picture!

Re: Count the Rivets!
 

Do you guys ever have problems with riveting tools breaking?

If so: How many do you go through per season?
If not: What brand do you use?

Re: Count the Rivets!
 

1501 has the same pop riveter guns from 2005

And im not sure what brand they are?