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Thanks to you wonderful Guys and Gals from Purdue for making the
Boilermaker the fabulous competition it is. You were graciously professional
letting us have that all important "pit time" even though you were very
very tired of a long day.

Thanks also to our great alliance friends (Blue and Red) for a magnificent
finish to this killer lineup of great bots.

Thought you would like to know what all the craziness was at during the
finals in the 1024 Robot. Well it wasn't smoke this time, it was a sudden
lack of 5 Volts! If you ever looked in our robot it looks like the old Telephone
switch boards of days gone by. We had only one shot and that was to
pull the controller. BIG BIG THANKS TO PIKE 1018 FOR THE LOAN OF
THEIR CONTROLLER. Gracious Professionalism goes on. With the sweaty
palms of Mentors and Students the robot went back out in time to finish.

We had quite a few 5 line autonomous thanks to all the teams running
this week in autonomous themselves. It keeps traffic flowing and everyone
runs up a nice score in autonomous. Makes the crowds and the teams
happy.

By the way remember autonomous is a very lucky event. Sort of like
landing on Mars with a working robot. Everything has to work. Batteries,
motors, gearboxes, encoders, gyros, cameras etc etc. If you get wind
to your back you make it other wise you can watch your robot spin in
circles or worse drive backwards or crash into walls. But always always
try to do it. Its a lot of fun watching your robot score points for your team.

Look forward to seeing our friends at Cleveland! Whew four days off
and back at it again. Robot asked us for a week off, guess not.

Thanks again Pike and all the teams who were there at the
Incredibly Exciting BOILERMAKER 2008!