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Re: Silly and ridiculous robot designs.
Some suggestions from students at Saturday's brainstorming meeting:

- a helicopter
- build the robot inside a deflated trackball: robot would contain pressurized air tanks that would inflate the ball from inside during hybrid mode, then roll itself like a hamster ball, hoping the refs would mistake it for a real trackball
- push the ball around the track with air pressure waves coming from a large subwoffer playing Metallica
- vertical air column floats the ball about 7' above ground as it drives around the track
- a giant Pac-man that would "swallow" the trackball
- a helicopter (the rookie student just didn't want to give up his idea, even as of yesterday!)
- putting our smallest student inside a trackball, then replacing the ball for one of the field when no one was looking
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