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Re: Casters should be banned!
Posted by ChrisH at 03/27/2001 12:36 AM EST
Engineer on team #330, Beach 'Bots, from Hope Chapel Academy and NASA JPL, J & F Machine, Raytheon, et al.
In Reply to: Casters should be banned!
Posted by James Jones on 03/22/2001 11:22 AM EST:
That's why Team 692's robot, which was designed and built AT the Silicon Valley regional with the help of Teams 192, 22 and some from 330 among others, used skids instead of casters. Having greater friction with the carpet they were less likely to swap ends with the drive wheels.
Why the robot was built there is a long sad story, but at least it only missed one round of practice. The joke was that 692 stands for 6 hours, 9 minutes, 2 seconds, the time it took to get it operational.
I think that beats the record set at the Langley regional by quite a margin.
Chris Husmann
Team 330 the Beach 'Bots
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