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Re: Reduced-space Demos?

Well, here's my story that I promised, but before I start, 330 was doing a small space demo around the time I posted. Here goes:

We do a demo for our school every year, at the "Night of Excellence" (talent show with displays in the back). To do this, we have to run on the stage, which has some areas that the robot must not go into. Effectively, we only have about 20' by 10', but the width varies. The plan for this demo: run robot, show a match video, run robot some more, exit in a hurry. Unfortunately, the video was not cued properly and could not be run, so we ran the robot instead.

Last weekend, our church (all the team members go to the same church, which also runs our school) wanted us to do a demo at all four services. Bear in mind that the stage is the same as above, but now we have to dodge the worship team's equipment. And, we have a very strict timetable for moving BeachBot onto the stage from the wings and back to the wings. The plan this time: someone introduces the team, then two people tag-team to tell everyone about the robot while a slide show is played. At certain times, BeachBot caps one or more tetras. Everything went like clockwork, other than the occasional dropped tetra, which was picked up again.

Having videos certainly helps...

To those who do demos in tiny spaces: congratulations!
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