Don't leave robot parts on the plane!!!

[JohnBoucher]

Teams, If you are bringing parts on the airplane, Please don't leave them lying around.
Science project shuts down airport

[redlau]

Was this a FIRST team?

[treffk]

Shouldn't have been since this took place on Sunday after the Dallas regionals were over. Unless it was a Dallas team returning home and had a layover at MCI.

[JohnSchneider]

Yeah the only people from Kansas were 935, and they were going the opposite direction.

Sounds like an NXT?

[techhelpbb]

I'm sorry I have this picture in my head of a bomb disposal robot chasing a FIRST robot around trying to investigate what it thinks it's doing.

The bomb disposal robot attempt to 'diffuse' the FIRST robot and it getting shot by a Nerf basketball.

Then Will Smith interrogating the FIRST robot asking what it thought it was doing.

Other than music played with the whistling power supplies, I think the FIRST robot exercises it's right to remain basically silent.

[treffk]

Originally Posted by animenerdjohn

Yeah the only people from Kansas were 935, and they were going the opposite direction.

Sounds like an NXT?

There was also a team from Harrisionville, MO that would have flown back into MCI but if I remember correctly they drove down.

[lorem3k]

Something similar happened to us last year going to the GTR East regional, one of our members had re-built the electronics board, and was carrying it on. He almost got to spend some "quality time" with a couple TSA agents.

[Steven Sigley]

In 2009 we used the witholding allowance to keep our electronics box so the programmers could work on it. When we flew to competition in Boston it was decided that it would be better suited to leave THIS in a crate rather than a carry-on
It was nicknamed the Bomb for obvious reasons.

[techhelpbb]

During 1998 I brought a Nerf foam brain in a large plastic jar complete with wooden balls painted like eyes on a flight to Florida for the Disney FIRST competition.

Of course that couldn't be put in carry on, so I brought it with me. If you think you attract the attention of airline security today, see what they do when they look up on the screen and see a brain in a jar going through the x-ray machine.

Then, just to cap that off, nothing suspicious here...I just happen to have no less then 150Lbs of tools in trunk in my luggage.

Good times...

After I had to make good on a promise to the students I strapped the brain/ball to my hat with zip ties and asked the Epcot employees if they had seen my mind because I seem to have lost it (some have argued I never found it).

[Grim Tuesday]

I don't know how many of you guys are in the Project Lead the Way classes, specifically Digital Electronics, but I have a very relevant story:

There's a kid in my class, let's call him Dan. He's very...naive. We were working on the infamous Birthday Problem when February break rolled around, and Dan wasn't finished. For those of you not familiar, the Birthday Problem's goal is to display ones birthday using AOI, NAND and NOR logic on a 7 segment display. We breadboard it in a standard breadboard, so it pretty much looks like a tangle of wires with a countdown clock on it. Someone had the fantastic idea of suggesting to Dan that he take the problem with him to Florida so he could work on it while he was on vacation. The whole class agreed: It would be a 'great idea' for him to do that! Everyone assumed that he knew enough not to take a breadboard with a tangle of wires on it to the airport, but he did. When he got there, he asked if he could take it with him. The TSA people were said "of course you can't that could cause a bomb scare". So they held if for him until he got back, and he relayed the story to us. Tragedy averted.