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Originally Posted by DonRotolo
Great video Billfred, and definitely a valuable experience for the team. By that, I mean that teamwork, calculations, trial-and-error, mechanisms, methods and even a goal were all considered: Just like building a winning robot.
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Calculations? Us? You must be new here. (I kid with regard to the robot, but this video was entirely eyeballed and held together with rope and packing tape. Especially that blasted catapult, which caused countless retakes.) There were also some things we just couldn't calculate, like the precise aim of the finger on the skateboard (held on by packaging tape and fishing line) that hit the start button (on an older microwave). There was an attempt just a few minutes prior to the one we published where the entire machine worked up to the finger, which was just a hair off. After ten hours of work in that cafeteria, we were all a little frazzled...but we knew we couldn't leave without getting this thing to work
one freaking time.
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Not to mention it's a great marketing piece.
<sigh> if ONLY someone on 2815 had a college degree in Marketing...
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Who's that knucklehead?