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I didn't detect any sarcasm in Kit's text...

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Yes I have preveously seen footage of how well the did today a former mentor told me "build 233's robot from'07 all yall will be good"

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Honestly though. I wonder how many robots we see will be similar to this. I would lie if I said 1511 didn't look heavily into the engineering of this robot and create ideas based off of it. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Beautiful bot. Still.

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When they showed the playing pieces for this year in the video, I leaned over to our team's president and said "I bet some teams will just be modifying their 2007 'bots".

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Our 07 robot is intact and operational and will probably inspire this years design.
It was a very good robot.

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our 2007 robot consistently caught fire after 1-2 min of game-play. we have a very funny video of someone on our team sprinting to kill it and cool down the smoking FP + corresponding victor before an official doused it with a fire extinguisher, suffice it to say we are starting over with our design.

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I'm not going to say that ours was horrible, just inefficient and not the way it was envisioned. We'll have several encounters with the drawing board as well.

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I wouldnt be surprised if they used the exact same design plus a provision for the minibot.
It already is able to grab game pieces with its arm over the bumpers.

Many teams in '07 needed a gap in the bumpers for arms that started within the "sizing box" at the start of a match. We're one of them and have brainstormed several ways around it this year.

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We used the 2007 game for our Mock Kick-off/Build Season training day with local teams. We also retrofitted an NI control system on our 2007 bot for Fall Training.

We keep telling the students we didn't have a mole, but they don't believe us.

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Well, that was fast. :p

2007 bot, right?
Nice slide rail extension.

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Probably one of my top 5 favorite robots in my 4 years in FIRST.

I can't wait to see what Pink comes up with this year. :)

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ahem *cough*
can anyone say hacks?

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We spent a good bit of time, yesterday, reviewing the '07 Florida and Championship Finals videos. And, PINK's venerable and trustworthy arm has proven itself time and time again. Believe me, we've played some intense matches against them...arrrrggghhh! and with them <WOOT!>

Expect them to be optimized and tough to beat. ...able to carry an alliance.

...what to do...what to do! :ahh:

Eric

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I really really really wish we still had the big CIM so we could do something like this... ::sigh:: back to the engineering drawing board and running motor calculations!

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I saw the game animation and started cringing knowing that 233 is coming to the DC Regional. Heh.

That robot doesn't need a mini bot. It can put up all 6 logos by itself if another team can just feed the tubes to them. It was amazing to watch and play beside.