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Alexa Stott 05-01-2008 16:08

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vivek16 05-01-2008 16:10

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LOL!!! Morgan looks about ready to pass out.

*runs to nearest door and measures width*

Yeah my closest door is a little under 30"

-vivek

Edit: nevermind. morgan has redeye in that picture and it looked like his eyes were closed...

daftpunk79 05-01-2008 20:04

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OMG, how big are our bot allowed to be??????
I hope this doesn't mess up any of my plans.....

Michelle Celio 05-01-2008 21:28

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Quote:

Originally Posted by vivek16 (Post 668545)
LOL!!! Morgan looks about ready to pass out.

*runs to nearest door and measures width*

Yeah my closest door is a little under 30"

-vivek

Morgan looks...just fine.

I heard it's also a terror to fit into a car =]

Hey, Alexa, and Morgan, how about you deflate the ball a little bit before you try and move it =]

p0lariis 05-01-2008 21:49

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LOL that happened to us too Dx

danshaffer 05-01-2008 21:57

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yeah, our prototyping meetings were going on in two different rooms, so we had to take a 'field trip' to do any real hands-on testing.

Hiteak 05-01-2008 22:02

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This reminds me so much of Violet from the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory when she turns into a blueberry. We were able to get it though the doors at school without too much effort pushing though it.

Ricki E. 05-01-2008 22:17

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That happened about five times today!

Each time gets funnier and funnier!


I think your gonna need a bigger door!

mormannoob 05-01-2008 22:44

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What did u guys use to blow it up

artdutra04 05-01-2008 23:04

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I just took took some pneumatic fittings from the KoP and a 1/4" NPT Quick Connect fitting, and used our workshop's compressed air supply to inflate the sphere. You can stick the 1/4" tubing from the KoP right into the hole on the ball to inflate it.

If you don't have a shop compressed air supply, take the output from the KoP compressor hooked up to the KoP tubing.

mbarina 05-01-2008 23:10

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lol, the balls are 40" in diameter. Most doors have 36" opening. How many times can we inflate and deflate them before they brake?

mormannoob 05-01-2008 23:13

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how long did it take to in flate/deflate and will a constant flate/deflate damage the tracking ball(btw just realize the nerdy connection to a trackball mouse)

cicib99 05-01-2008 23:22

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haha that happened to us too.

we inflated it outside and couldnt find a way to get inside...all the doors had the separators in between!

we ended up figuring out how to take off the separator then had to put it back on after

Xenozero 05-01-2008 23:24

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Hey um, by the way, when fully inflated does it really feel like it weighs 10 pounds?, thats what it says it should weigh in the manual.......

mormannoob 05-01-2008 23:27

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how long did it take to in flate/deflate and will a constant flate/deflate damage the trackball(btw just realize the nerdy connection to a trackball mouse)

colin340 06-01-2008 10:17

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i just pushed harder and it went right on in

VanMan 06-01-2008 10:23

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These balls will be fun to handle :)

lilac 06-01-2008 11:07

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I waaaannnaaa the trackballss

omg, we here in Brazil still have to wait till January 15th

:mad: :(

s_forbes 06-01-2008 11:11

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Originally Posted by Xenozero (Post 669319)
Hey um, by the way, when fully inflated does it really feel like it weighs 10 pounds?, thats what it says it should weigh in the manual.......

We weighed ours to be just a hair under 8 pounds.

Alan Anderson 07-01-2008 00:08

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Originally Posted by Xenozero (Post 669319)
Hey um, by the way, when fully inflated does it really feel like it weighs 10 pounds?, thats what it says it should weigh in the manual.......

Ours measures about 7.5 pounds. It actually does feel lighter to me than the ones at the kickoff in Manchester.

Terminator 10-01-2008 19:05

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Originally Posted by mormannoob (Post 669271)
What did u guys use to blow it up

Morgan blew it up. That's why his eyes are read in the picture.
He only passed out three times.

Ross340 13-01-2008 20:22

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i guess you can abuse your compressor. Anyone test this and see how long it takes though?

cziggy343 13-01-2008 20:29

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somehow... it fits through our doors... i think a couple of ours are 38"... so we just need to push it through

usbcd36 13-01-2008 20:40

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Originally Posted by Ross340 (Post 677226)
i guess you can abuse your compressor. Anyone test this and see how long it takes though?

We used two of the KOP compressors for previous years, and it still took about ten minutes to inflate the ball. I know someone with a compressor they don't use often, but we didn't want to drive 35 minutes there and back to inflate the trackball.

lukevanoort 13-01-2008 20:43

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Originally Posted by cziggy343 (Post 677231)
somehow... it fits through our doors... i think a couple of ours are 38"... so we just need to push it through

Yeah, we are in a similarly lucky situation. The main door to our shop is one of those double door type things, so we have no problem there. Most of the other doors we need to get it through are double doors, but have dividers down the middle. Handily enough, we can remove the dividers if we want to. However, we have yet to remove one of the dividers since it actually isn't that hard to get through standard width doors. All it needs is some 'persuasion.'

Alexa Stott 13-01-2008 20:44

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My neighbour has a compressor to inflate pool toys, so we borrowed that from him and used it to inflate ours. We had to have one of our team members with a truck bring it up to the school. Now, when we need to get it through doors, we deflate it a bit and then re-inflate it with a compressor that we have in our shop.


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