[roboguy #1]

Originally Posted by Rich Kressly

Lavery stories always rock! This one, however, captures the essence of the FIRST experience down deeper than most. Chaos is supposed to occur. How everyone reacts is the question. When you have the rare opportunity to be a part of the kind of team Dave just described, hang onto that experience and love every minute of it. There is no feeling greater than being a part of a group that would walk through fire with you. Complete commitment, complete trust, and total respect. The future is definately in good hands.

Well lets see. Being my first year this was all interesting to me. Started something like this.

First meeting well lets clean this dirty place up. The second build session started around designing and building gearboxes. One gearbox had worked quite well. So about week two we have 3 gearboxes one that is terrible and 2 decent gearboxes. Its been about um. Lets say three weeks finals are over. Still 3 gearboxes. A mentor in college says I told Yoni you have to sand the shafts or they don't fit. He was right everything that fit was pressed in. So the mentor has me rip the decent boxes apart. Sand the shafts he trues the ends to size. I make them smaller and the key slots lots sharper of course didn't try to slit his fingers with the edge of the keys Well 2 or so weeks left I call the captain the night before the dude loaning us his shop and his son a mentor another mentor and the captains haved stayed up tell 5 in the morning making a running chassis well basically its not a build a piece At time its OK 1 day robot works another day theres the working arm. Well luckily we have a month to do coding and stuff planning what we have to do to make a running robot win? add support and hold downs for meshing gears don't bind. Thats about it good luck to all and the L.A. area your gonna run for your money.