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I just got back from St. Louis about 30 minutes ago, overall I'm pretty pleased with what we figured out about our robot. Our arms work, woohoo!! after adding an extensive amount of latex tubing the arms go up and down with ease. This allows us to keep them up or down to let people on the ramp or to the other side. Our suction cups never got used. After dealing with other problems or just trying different things we never sucessfully attached to the HDPE. Our autonomous mode and our robot are being really screwy. After dieing in numerous matches we've come to the conclusion that we need to do something about our wiring and programming mode so we can be up and running at 100% for both Pittsburgh and Chicago in the upcoming weeks. All in all i'm pleased, we did come away with the Johnson & Johnson Sportsmanship Award, which we have never won before. I'de also like to thank the guys from 111 for the many suggestions on fixing our robot over the weekend, 547 and 171 for loaning us the many small things we forgot, and team 447 for picking us for the elimation matches (the CIA (Central Indiana Alliance - 447, 45, 1018) had a really good chance, but things just didnt go well).
Next week, Pittsburgh, the week after that a break, and then Chicago. More updates to come!
Automonous - n. the frequent sound made by a team member not wearing a watch. ex: Do you know automonous? - Cynette [more] 
09-03-2003, 01:08
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