I would have to say this was one of the greatest enviroments to have a competition. I think I personally spent more time looking at stuff at the expo and playing with my rc car than with my team. We had a great time despite our robots problems. As many of you know our robot rarely has problems! Atleast our 3 speed tranny didnt fail us
The only reason why I can think that our robot was in such bad shape is because it has too many miles on it. We already have 8 competitions (3 FIRST, 5 minis) on our 2004 machine and atleast 3 more to go.
It was a great time talking to other people outside of FIRST who build other things besides robots, such as air powered turbine engines. I even talked to one guy who has a daughter that lives in Tunkhannock.
I even got a mini mill hobbiest to give us a 4 inch piece of bar stock to fix our cracked ball caster mechanism.
I will be there next year!
Well I am going to recruit more teams!