Thread: QUESTION OF THE WEEK!!!
View Single Post
  #16   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 23-06-2002, 23:37
archiver archiver is offline
Forum Archival System
#0047 (ChiefDelphi)
  
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Pontiac, MI
Posts: 21,214
archiver has a reputation beyond reputearchiver has a reputation beyond reputearchiver has a reputation beyond reputearchiver has a reputation beyond reputearchiver has a reputation beyond reputearchiver has a reputation beyond reputearchiver has a reputation beyond reputearchiver has a reputation beyond reputearchiver has a reputation beyond reputearchiver has a reputation beyond reputearchiver has a reputation beyond repute
'Good ol' Days'
Posted by Andy Baker.

Engineer on team #45, TechnoKats, from Kokomo High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 8/29/2000 7:11 AM MST


In Reply to: Children of the Corn posted by Eric Rasmussen on 8/26/2000 8:58 PM MST:



: Think of Maize Craze..

: and the Technocats had a really light and fast robot that ran around on top of the corn with spikey : aluminum spokes that approximated the shape of wheels.

My boss was the designer of our Maize Craze machine... the 'Cornvette'. He reminds me at least once a year of things like...

'we barely had enough power to drive ONE motor... let alone 12!'
'you guys have it easy with that carpet... I tell ya that CORN was difficult stuff!'
'and then we had to deal with this TETHER... oooh, that was a pain!'
'and we didn't even get our team together until 2 weeks into the competition!'
'and the playing field... no matter how you turned, you were always driving UPHILL!'

OK, maybe I'm fibbing on the last one, but he never lets a season pass without telling us how difficult the first year was. I just remind him... It's been almost 10 years... and he's getting old!

Andy B.



__________________
This message was archived from an earlier forum system. Some information may have been left out. Start new discussion in the current forums, and refer back to these threads when necessary.