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Our first impressions were to use 2 kitchen woks as "monkey clappers" to clasp the ball from the sides.

Our next idea was to use the inflated 2007 pool tubes to soften the bounces of a ball. Actually, there's still a spot for the tube on our bot, so I won't rule it out yet.

We also want to incorporate the 2006 poof ball somehow. Maybe it'll be the "driver's seat" for the decorative crash dummy driver we're probably putting in the middle of the bot.

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One kid decided we needed rockets to make our robot fly:rolleyes: . Oh and heres one our coach.:D

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When ever 145 got went over clues and people said "A WATER GAMES!!!!". My best friend always said, WE NEED TOASTER BOT. In his mind, we would plug in Toaster Bot and drive it into the water. I think you can see where it would go from there.

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A nine-sided 3-wheeled coaxial swerve drive geared at 30 fps. Silly & Ridiculous, for sure. ;)

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Umm, whatttt??? [head smokes, then flames come out ears, then BOOOMMMMM!!!]









*ding*

Yeah, that's ridiculous.

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Don't worry, no one would be crazy enough to build it. The only crazier team would be the team silly enough to pick them in the eliminations...

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I doubt they could win anything with that design...

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Of course if the team with a silly and ridiculous robot design just happened to be a #1 seed that would be a moot point. ;)

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Noo..psh, that's ridiculous. A team needs to hurdle to be #1 seed:rolleyes:

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During the season I joked about "hovering" the trackball around the track using jets of air :D The trackball wouldn't be touching the robot, so we would never need to stop :D.

And yes this is actually possible, although hard to believe. Unfortunately we couldn't generate enough psi to lift the trackball.

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You really should have tried...

-q

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I believe one of the reasons this works so well with golf-balls is because they are dimpled.

Yes a big fan could lift the track ball, but would it hover in one place? Wouldn't wind resistance knock it off? What would happen when it went under the rack and the thrust was deflected?

I would knock it off with my roller claw if I saw a robot doing this :cool:

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well, with this years new controller, I considered it, and am still going to bring it up if i think it could be useful.

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Yeah, I know, I would have knocked it off too... but it would have hovered.

Bernoulli's principle works for any spherical object in a fluid (air) flow. High pressure on one side generates a vacuum on the other, and tends to constrain the sphere to the input flow axially, provided there's a reactive force (gravity) to keep the sphere from just moving away from the fan.

Try it with a basketball and a leafblower sometime... or a trackball and a high power fan.

-q

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thats a classic lol