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Re: Enough buying talk. Let's hear about ghettofab!

1293 was surprisingly low on ghettofab, due to the fact that we had no duct tape.

I think the biggest ghettofab moment we had was when we couldn't find Mrs. Sutton (our honcho of nearly all things non-robot), who had printed up our team numbers for the robot. We had to have team numbers, so we used the best thing we could think of...electrical tape.

And it was like that the entire Palmetto regional.

Off of the robot, however, we were kings. We needed a ball tee to practice our autonomous mode, but we didn't have any toilet flanges or anything. Our tee wound up being a lid off of a foam coffee cup (the kind with the indentation in the middle), a length of PVC pipe to fit, and the feeder tray off of a printer to work as a base. (I wound up using tin snips to cut out a perfect fit in the ridges.) It worked for a tee--whether it held up when our robot came stampeding through is another story.
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2004-2006: FRC 1293 (D5 Robotics) - Student, Mentor, Coach
2007-2009: FRC 1618 (Capital Robotics) - Mentor, Coach
2009-2013: FRC 2815 (Los Pollos Locos) - Mentor, Coach - Palmetto '09, Peachtree '11, Palmetto '11, Palmetto '12
2010: FRC 1398 (Keenan Robo-Raiders) - Mentor - Palmetto '10
2014-2016: FRC 4901 (Garnet Squadron) - Co-Founder and Head Bot Coach - Orlando '14, SCRIW '16
2017-: FRC 5402 (Iron Kings) - Mentor

94 events (more than will fit in a ChiefDelphi signature), 14 seasons, over 61,000 miles, and still on a mission from Bob.

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