Robot in Nutcracker

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Originally posted by verdeyw
Tell us all the whole story! There's a thread full of anxious people here.

from pm...

ok well, this goes back the the 2002 nationals. A couple from the area was at disney and they happened to see people with our school name on their shirts....Well the couple helps out with a ballet in the area. Every year this ballet group puts on a free show of the nutcrakcer and they had an interesting situation for us. The one scene there is an angle that comes out on stage and the person needs to look like they are floating. Previously, they used a wheel chair base and the person controlling it hid under the angel's dress and he was cued from some one on stage....well, these people tracked us down and asked us if there was anyway we could control the wheelchair for them. We donated one of our robot interfaces and joysticks to them and we programmed everythign so that the guy could no remotely control the wheel chair. The wheel chair had to carry two people and it had to be smooth movement. We gave them exactly what they wanted and the show went flawlessly! So that's the story of the nutcracker.Cliff
222 Alum.

*chuckle* That's funny. Our team hypothesized your robot was a toy in "that" scene.

My daughter, robot chick, co-driver, and captain of our team, dates a professional ballet dancer. We told him his mission is to get us in the nutcracker.

Thank you for telling me. Very cool!
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