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Re: 2014 Minne-Mini

Here's our Minne-Mini story.

Wednesday morning: we were informed a team had cancelled and we had an opportunity to go. Our bot was partially disassembled to repair some mecanum rollers. Recruited 9 students and five mentors to go.

Wednesday night, --reassembly

Thursday night, driver practice, and broke a another mecanum roller (or two?) -- fixed it using a slightly less time consuming disassembly approach even though everyone would have rather gone home by then.

Packing stuff-- bring spare rollers? Fixing would take too long, so we'd never use them, but throw them in the box any way.

Match one: Broke a roller, started to make same disassemble/fix but given time of match two, we realized we wouldn't make it but we could re-assemble and make the match without the roller.

Match two, lost another roller on opposite wheel.

Match three, lost two more rollers, started doing carpet damage, now we had no choice.

A crowd of kids with some extra borrowed tools (drill, riveter) to get more hands working. Disassembled both the left and right side of the bot to replace rollers. Missed two matches, and lost one more roller.. .

We had a couple of other repairs as well, one fixed with velcro cable ties and zipties, which held up in the last match.

At the end of the day we had kids doing line dances and all said they had a great day, despite finishing 33rd.

That's what I love about FIRST.
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