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AKA: Christopher J. O'Connell
None #1097 (Site 3 Engineering)
Team Role: Alumni
 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Latrobe (over the rainbow), CA
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1097: Rookie Year

We wanted treads, we knew we wanted treads, but Burko Belts definatly would break the budget, so we went around town till we found an old snowblower, and our robot was pretty much the bottom half of an old sowblower. Plus, our motors kept burining out (we were direct driving the treads, nor trannies), and that year in Sac they were doing the funky timing (15 min between matches, and then an hour between matches), and we had to replace a motor in like 10 minutes, so horay for the joys of zipties (and yes, you can run a match on Zipties).

Last season: Our accelerometor based navigation was not working, and R. Kevin Watson kindly donated a set of Greyhill encoders. The problem, our 200 hour drivetrain had no space to mount an accelerometer. The solution, a piece of flashing bent up to hold the encoder, attached to a piece of surical tubing which we affixed to one of the pins holding our transmission together.
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2003 Sacramento Rookie All Star
2003 Silicon Valley Rookie All Star
2004 Sacramento Engineering Inspiration Award
2004 Sacramento Visualization Award
2004 Outstanding Volunteer Award (G. Glasser)
2004 Silicon Valley Sportsmanship Award
2004 National Visualization Runner Up
2004 Cal Games Finalist
2005 Sacramento Sportsmanship Award
2005 Sacramento #1 seed
2005 Sacramento Finalist

2005 Silicon Valley Sportsmanship Award
2005 Silicon Valley #1 Seed
2005 Silicon Valley Finalist

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