One of the little details that Ben didn't mention is that while this bucket was donated by a local Jason's Deli, this specific pickle bucket was kindly washed before we got it from. The prior ones we prototyped with weren't washed and had that great dill pickle smell.
This is one of the reasons I suggested this year's robot name be
Electro Vlasic. That and it reminded me of the work done by the old DEC Alpha microprocessor design team; check out one of their research
papers.