We Want Pictures and Videos of Your Boulders

[PayneTrain]

Originally Posted by marshall

We are happy to see them posted publicly and would invite others to use them for their own purposes.

why you gotta let the dutch get domestic secrets re: our balls tho

[marshall]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

why you gotta let the dutch get domestic secrets re: our balls tho

Have you ever had a stroopwafel? I'd give my right... arm... for those.

[runneals]

In all seriousness, can people post pictures of how the game pieces are dealing with wear and tear for those of us who are thinking about using mechanisms designed to squish the ball when scoring.

[bEdhEd]

We painted our balls.

This is actually surprisingly significant and here's why:

For a stencil, I used an old aluminum plate with our number milled into it. I took the first boulder that we had been testing with for the past couple weeks, and pressed the stencil against the foam to compress it so all the edges were in contact with the boulder surface. This is to keep the edges crisp. I was able to do this by myself with my left hand pressing the stencil down and my right spray paining. I took the next boulder, which had never been used, and found that I could not press the stencil hard enough to compress the boulder so that all edges touched the boulder surface. I had to ask a student to press the stencil down while I sprayed, and eventually after getting a few boulders painted, he was showing signs of fatigue and his arms were shaking a bit.

The moral: The new balls are much, much harder to compress than ones that have been used over and over.

[marshall]

Originally Posted by bEdhEd

You have no idea how excited I am that someone posted a picture finally! Thank you!

[Sperkowsky]

http://i.imgur.com/tB19cqe.jpg

[Mitchb705]

We took pictures of our boulders next to a variety of the field defenses. I hope this helps. Look forward to seeing your robot at one of the NC District events this year.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...it?usp=sharing

[marshall]

Originally Posted by Mitchb705

We took pictures of our boulders next to a variety of the field defenses. I hope this helps. Look forward to seeing your robot at one of the NC District events this year.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...it?usp=sharing

THANK YOU!!!!!

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

Our balls look super weird, should I call someone?

Get your rocks off (my screen).

[Karel_4481]

Originally Posted by marshall

Have you ever had a stroopwafel? I'd give my right... arm... for those.

No need for arms if I can use the all the pictures of boulders you guys receive I will personally make sure you are going to get stroopwafels.
PS: our pictures are coming soon!

[amesmich]

Ours are perfect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT9pygVQwgk

[jlindquist74]

Originally Posted by marshall

We would like pictures of your balls resting on various surfaces. We would like to see your balls on your field elements. Videos of your balls moving around would be helpful too. Some teams have been uploading teaser videos of their balls flying in the air and those are great.

I can't believe nobody has quoted AC/DC yet...

[marshall]

Originally Posted by jlindquist74

I can't believe nobody has quoted AC/DC yet...

Yeah... I'm not saying our teaser will have a theme song but our teaser will have a theme song...

[hectorcastillo]

At least take me out to dinner first.

[techplex]

We've got some videos of our shooter prototypes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTn8bSvJ0vw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzS2Mmha0HI