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Many thanks to all the parents, team members, mentors, spouses of mentors, grandparents, and random people who just volunteered off the street to help make all these orbit balls. Here's to an awesome Rally!
Great job all! :D Color key: Black are empty cells Camo are super cells Black/Red/White are moon rocks (as are all the store bought ones) |
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Greta job and that probably took a long time. I love the colors, they are sick
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If they're anything like the real thing, a lot of them will be broken soon. You might want to make some more. :rolleyes:
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Fantastic!
After Scrimmage, please post an update on how well these balls held up to some robot rough-housing. After all that effort, those Super Cell/Awards are going to be a valuable commodity! :cool: |
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Ours will probably be more robust than the real ones. The real ones use a cheap plastic connector that is easily broken. These are pop-riveted together for each strip. Not to say they won't break - just that they're pretty tough. We're actually concerned that these will be more robust than the real balls which is why we're not replacing the few real ones we got so that we can use those for our official "testing".
Thanks also to Gus for the help with the video and instructions. Cheers, |
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Sorry, it is unfair of me to vent my Orbit Ball related frustrations here. JV |
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Our robot just turned some of our orbit balls to masses of broken plastic and fabric. |
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OK boys and girls under the age of 25, what's Cynette's quote from? |
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Now time to start building the robot :P
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Oh my, I knew we were forgetting something! :cool: |
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Do I win? |
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We also used hot glue to join the fabric ends. It's faster and easier than sewing and also is quite robust (no separated seams after an impromptu soccer game). |
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We found that balls pop riveted/glued together acted differently than the store bought balls, do the balls you made still flex like they do?
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What did you make the balls out of?
We tried using lexan that was the same thickness as the plastic that the original moon rock was made from, but the ball that was made is unsquishable, and therefore useless to our team. |
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Our balls were substantially stiffer than the factory manufactured ones, but were still usable by most teams for testing and practice. One suggestion to make them more flexible is to use tape to connect the ends rather than the rivets.
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But we love our slightly stiffer and WAY more durable balls! And so did the teams that came to our rally because there were lots and lots of them. |
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