Posted by mike o'leary at 1/24/2001 7:45 PM EST
Student on team #419, rambots, from bc high.
In Reply to: let the war stories begin...
Posted by Anton Abaya on 1/23/2001 10:26 PM EST:
: well, we have had our own problems
: lets see, the high school students got too excited and were arrested by umass security... OOPS... hehe. it was rather funny, but it sorta put me in trouble too.
: lets see, then the h/s students had exams for the entire 2nd week.
: accounting was a big problem and i cannot order anything for the robot over $150 myself and have to go through some fella who wants to handle all the accounting and takes a few days to get things done.
: hmmm, what budget?
: hmm, we have no engineers.
: hmm, we barely have funding...
: hmm, and we have a prototype that runs on wheels and has everything on top trying hard to hold on to the wooden frame.
: should i be taking pictures? hehe...
: well, with all this happening, i still think it's a good year.... i cant believe it myself. we're much better off than last year..
: by friday, we'll the robot 60% done.
Darn parts arent coming till Thursday.... which means more delays....ahhhh!!!
: good luck all..
: -anton
: ps. can i borrow Joe Johnson now?
i stilll say the umass cop people were a bit overzealous in arresting us...but my parents found the incident as amusing as anton seemes to have, so no harm done.
and we did get to a good start...for maybe 3 days were were right on schedule with no arguments...then we had to vote on a design (which eventually lead to somepeople becoming dissatisfied with us and leaving)
mike who got a record while hanging out at the umass phyisics club