FYI: FIRST E-mail Blast 9/26/03

[miketwalker]

I like the new regional Woodie Flowers Award, should be very good to help recognize more people that deserve these awards. I don't like them getting rid of the compressors, joysticks, and battery chargers though... because like someone else said... the joysticks break easily and sometimes u even redo it to make it part of your control board, plus repeating what someone else already said again... how're we going to control past year robots? I see for the joysticks you can probably just reconnect them the way for that year, but you can't easily swap back the compressor when you want the old robots to work. Also, the battery chargers aren't the highest quality and break relatively easy, I don't even think ours from previous years works, even though we kept decent care of it, it just doesn't have a long-life... but I guess we have to use more money to buy these items, and our budget is already tight :-/ Overall I do like the new ideas though.