[Queen_of_Mascot]

Wow... and I thought what I did was bad...

Earlier in the year we had this room we were painting our shipping crate, and made a bit of a mess. I remembered one teacher saying how shaving cream will take paint off of cars, and also works nicely for getting ink off of desks.

So anyway, we have this huge box of shaving gel. Key word--gel, not cream, which I didn't really think of until later.

Now, we don't just have a few cans, we have about a hundred or so sample-size cans, so we... used them all, and covered the room (which was about twenty feet by ten feet-ish) with a few inch layer of... shaving gel, which kinda expands as it sits for a bit.

Now, we then realized we had a problem--not only was the gel not taking off the paint, but we were three inches deep in shaving foam, with piles going up to a foot high in some corners. Now, initially it was nice fun foam--we had foam wrestling, covered kids in foam, foam fights, etc. It was a /lot/ of fun, but after a day or two, it dries and becomes a crusty, flaky, powdery mess.

So what did we do?

We flooded the room with water. And not just buckets or something--we took PVC piping, and rigged the sink in the corner to let out at three points via an irrigation system, and flooded the room. Now, we thought it'd dissolve the shaving gel and it'd wash into the drainage in the floor that we assumed was /somewhere/ in the room (note--this wasn't our main shop room, but a room off the side of that which was a service room of sorts), but two problems emerged.

First of all, it didn't do much to the foam except partially dissolve it and make a disgusting, slushy mess. Second, /there was no drain/.

So you see where the issue is?

Then we take the shop vac and rig it with PVC to suck up a lot of the water, which works until the shop vac gets full. Rather then be smart and just put it in reverse and pump the water into the drain in the sink, we decide to get our mentor (you'll see why getting the mentor is a bad idea in this case, in a second). He decides that we already messed up enough, won't let us reverse the shop vac, forces us to carry it to the sink, which makes a huge mess, and then disallows us from using it.

He then decides to use the spare cardboard from some class project to soak it up, like a sponge. But... it doesn't work as planned, so now we have a slushy, slurry mess of dissolved cardboard, shaving foam, and water. We pick up the cardboard, put down more, repeat... until the room is dry enough that we can just let it air dry.

Yeah. X_X

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This wasnt really robotics but while i was at the hotel in nats a few girls from my team locked me a few others on the balcony of our hotel room and i climbed over the barrior between the balconys to the next girls room over and went over to open the door

Ha, for a moment I wondered if you were from our team... me and my friend did the SAME thing (except it was at the '05 nats) to some friends of ours, locked them out, and they climbed across the balcony...

What hotel were you at when you did that? -wonders if it was the same hotel, therefore allowing the same strategy-

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Woah. Why were you shooting the bolt in the first place? That sounds /really/ dangerous and... fun.