Posted by Rick Berube.
Engineer on team #121, Rhode Warriors, from Middletown H.S..
Posted on 7/5/99 9:55 AM MST
In Reply to: Re: Deans new invention posted by Thomas A. Frank on 7/2/99 3:49 PM MST:
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: : Shades of last years competition, who is inspiring who?
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: I'll bet Dean didn't have a 130 pound weight limit or a $425 credit line;
: and I'm sure he isn't using RNet's or BASIC Stamps...
: On the other hand, it does look like he kept it in the 'box'.
: Tom Frank
The real amazing thing is that I heard Dean constrained himself to a kit of FIRST parts and a 6 week schedule when building his new invention? As Tom points out,
the machine appears to reside 'in-the-box', however does Dean have to meet the 130lbs weight limit with or without a person in the seat?
If Dean were to incorporate a steel cage around the device, next year we can get the referees much closer to the action. To you think Deans system would be able to compensate for a self inflicted cloths-lining on the 1998 field?