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Unread 15-03-2003, 17:45
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In Sacramento the team next to us in the pits was 295, they're so kool. Out of all their matches they only lost 3 and one of them was to us (133 to 37). I just think it's great that we beat such an awesome team.
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MY Story is how at the KSC regional last year i got locked out of my hotel room and broke the window and had to be rushed to the hospital for 23 staples and having to spend the saturday of the comp in a wheel chair









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it was determined a motor was wired backwards causing one joystick to have its controls reversed,
We had a similar problem to this where when I would drive forward with the joystick the corect wheel would go forward, however if I moved the left joystick backwards, the right wheel would go backwards and if I moved the right stick backwards, the left wheel would go backwards. Being the programmer as well, I thought it was something wrong with the program. I spent over an hour looking at code trying to figure it out before I discovered that each of the two drive motors have been wired to two different Victors.
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we were playing mafia friday night in sacramento at the hotel, and i was mafia, but i forgot, so when she said "Mafia, wake up." I just sorta sat there until she tapped me and i got up and said "Oh... Yeah."

and then everyone smacked me for screwing up the game

and then we went back to leann's room and had a giant pillowfight. was fun
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Slept in til 4:45 AM the Sunday my team was suppose to leave Houston to go back to Michigan... Almost didn't make it to the airport cuz I almost missed the bus...once I got there, I was really hungry so I grabbed some stuff from a store. I thought I heard something about a final boarding at gate A25 but I ignored it. I hung out with 4 other team members who apparently didn't hear the announcement either.
Then they were like,
'what time is it? We board at 6:30...our flight leaves pretty soon...Jason?'
'Uh yeah...it's...7AM...'
Well, needless to say, we sprinted to our gate and made it
The moral: Boarding time over your stomach
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LA regional this year- we're coming down the ram with our arm raised when a wedge shaped robot runs into us head on. Our driver made the mistake of continuing forward, and because our arm was raised and we were on the ramp we tipped over onto our arm. Fortunately we designed for this contingency, so our arm is hinged from the side of the robot it has sufficient toruqe to put us back on our wheels. And it did just that, even though we were flat on our back, wheels pointing directly upwards, our chassis cranked itself right back up and as it passsed vertical it fell onto the wheels.

What we didn't know until after the match was that our battery had come out of its mount, for most teams this would mean that the battery would be disconnected as soon as they moved, but we were able to finish the match dragging our battery along behind us by its leads because we had a zip-tied the two connectors together. In the video we took you can even see that another robot drove over our battery at one point. It was crazy cool, but not very good for the robot, because the battery smashed the plastic housing of one of our drill motors as it bounced around underneath our robot at one point.

Needless to say, after that we abandoned the practice of using velcro to hold the battery in, building a new mount in the ten or so minutes before the next match.
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