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Re: Not one 'bot was not worthy
Posted by Tom Vanderslice, Student on team #275, ORHS/AST/Hitachi, from Academy of Science and Technology and Hitachi.
Posted on 5/3/99 4:38 PM MST
In Reply to: Not one 'bot was not worthy posted by Daniel on 5/3/99 1:05 AM MST:
: Personally I feel that ever robot I saw in Florida was worthy of prime time. For a high school project FIRST is pretty sophisticated stuff. Just think, while other high schools are building cardboard boats (not in the least a boring project), we have hundreds of kids working on ten foot tall ROBOTS. Mechanical Michael Jordan’s. And you say that's not worthy of prime time?
: Besides, since when are students not good enough to build a 'ready for prime-time' robot? Students are capable of building machines to rival even the most engineer-built 'bots out there. Take G-Force for example. Two things on that ‘bot were done professionally. Little things. One was a bend in a sheet of aluminum that was too large to fit in our bender (just to put it into perspective). I give only this example ‘cuz I know our 'bot pretty well, but I'm sure there are quite a few others out there.
: It's just a pet peeve of mine when people imply that students can’t do impressive stuff on their own. Sure there will be a few boxes with wheels out there, but the majority of robots you see in Florida are pretty $@#$@#$@#$@# impressive.
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: I was blown away this year.
: -Daniel
I don't think he was really trying to imply that the robots were unworthy
of prime time...all the robots were awesome...but i think it was more
of a thing like...not many of the robots (both engineer built and student built)
worked ALL the time...and when people watch prime time they want to see
stuff work...things do well...i mean...why did nobody watch the Florida
Marlins last year...or the LA Clippers...or other bad teams...b/c they want
to watch stuff do well and stuff work...its no fun to watch things not
work...
You know all the robots were worthy of prime time, I know all the robots
were worthy of prime time, all of us on here know all the robots were
worthy of prime time, but we're already there...convincing the public
how much work this was and how much fun it is to watch...etc...and how
worthy it is of prime time is another story....
Not to look like a cynic...but...
Tom
Team 275
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