Long Island Regional Winners

[Erin Rapacki]

I visited Cornell last september and had dinner with some kids on their FIRST team. The founder is Patrick Dingle, they are team #639, Code Red, they were rookies in 2001, and they are joined with Ithaca High School but are totally sponsered by Cornell. I haven't recieved a letter back from that school so I don't know if I'm rejected or accepted. I haven't heard back from Rensselaer or WPI either and I'm a little concered as to if acceptance letters for general admission have been sent out yet. Well, I'll see ya'all at UTC!

Ah, alright, my mistake. Cool beans though that Cornell does in fact have a team.

I have yet to recieve a letter back from RPI myself (I did regular admission there). Any day now for that!

-John D.

[Adam Y.]

Wow sorry that happened Team 311. If I remeber correctly our bot was the one that got into a pushing match with your bot when it first broke the drill motor. Can you give me a detailed story of what happned?

[Brian C]

Now that you mention it I believe it was the Longwood 'bot that we were pushing with. As far as details unfortunately there really aren't to many.

It boils down to this:

To much traction + To 'tall" a gear ratio = Smoke

Suffice it to say that we will be prepared to make changes when we open the crate in Disney at the Nats.

You guys definitely had a nice machine.

[patrickrd]

Originally posted by Erin Rapacki
I visited Cornell last september and had dinner with some kids on their FIRST team. The founder is Patrick Dingle, they are team #639, Code Red, they were rookies in 2001, and they are joined with Ithaca High School but are totally sponsered by Cornell. I haven't recieved a letter back from that school so I don't know if I'm rejected or accepted. I haven't heard back from Rensselaer or WPI either and I'm a little concered as to if acceptance letters for general admission have been sent out yet. Well, I'll see ya'all at UTC!

Thanks Erin Hopefully we can make our team a little better known if can make it to nationals (we qualified for nats at NYC). We're also attending the Canadian Regional.

For more information about the Cornell team visit:
http://www.startateam.com/639/index.php

- Patrick

[Adam Y.]

Originally posted by Brian C
Now that you mention it I believe it was the Longwood 'bot that we were pushing with. As far as details unfortunately there really aren't to many.

It boils down to this:

To much traction + To 'tall" a gear ratio = Smoke

You guys had a nice machine too. In fact if I remeber correctly our robots were quite similar in design except for the ball hoop position that made ours take quite long to use. We even had traction problems that made it quite hard for our robot to turn. What we did was convert it into a two wheel drive and add fake duck tape to the front. It worked quite well because I saw the wheels slipping during our match with your bot which I later discovered is good to stop the motors from stalling and burning out. It tipped over twice which was funny since we won one and lost the other by one point. Now all we need to figure out is how to use those motors with the plastic mounts without destroying the mounts.