Reverse Robotics !!!!!!!!!!

[Spaztik Duck]

Originally Posted by dan 322

Only reason I suggested "reverse robots" is I though it would be fun for the students to watch the mentors not be able to with the robot what they told the kids was easy all year.

I know, and I think it's a great idea.

[Lisa Rodriguez]

Originally Posted by duckyday

i would hope that if we reversed roles, the only difference would be that the mentors would get a chance to drive and be human players...

dude, i like my robot, i don't want to kill it!!! ( jk, i love my adults)
I know that this would be CRAZY, espcially if the adults did what some of our kids did I don't think i'd be able to do it, but it sure would be fun to try!!
Plus it might wake up some of the kids on our team UP to everything the mentors do!!

[Jeff Rodriguez]

Originally Posted by Joel J.

Put a joystick in my hand again, with a robot on the other end, and I will definitely... heh, nvm .

I love the idea of driving with Joel again.

Originally Posted by Keiko173

dude, i like my robot, i don't want to kill it!!! ( jk, i love my adults)

You know Joel and I could do a better job than you can dream of.


But the Joelster is on 229 now , I suppose he would drive 229.

I'd love to drive a/any robot again (especially 45's huge arm from this year).
Is there a proposed place to do this, or is it just hypothetical?

[Pin Man]

Originally Posted by Ogre

I love the idea of driving with Joel again.



You know Joel and I could do a better job than you can dream of.


But the Joelster is on 229 now , I suppose he would drive 229.

I'd love to drive a/any robot again (especially 45's huge arm from this year).
Is there a proposed place to do this, or is it just hypothetical?

How about team 25's robot? They have that sick operator thing where it is a mini model of there arm and they move it around to control it... Its sick! I have only seen it from a distance but I heard that it is unbelievable...

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Ogre

I'd love to drive a/any robot again (especially 45's huge arm from this year).

I'm wary of anyone playing with that arm without significant practice. I broke it twice, and I'm the one who programmed the thing.

(Actually, I merely happened to be the one touching the controls when the arm motor mount gave way during build season, so that one shouldn't count against me. Much. The broken chain at Nationals, however, I take full responsibility for.)

[Lisa Rodriguez]

Originally Posted by Ogre

You know Joel and I could do a better job than you can dream of.

Joel i have no doubt, would be awesome, how could he not be? You on the other hand....jk
Although i was talking about some of the more "mature" adults (age-wise, i'm still not sure if they're matured emotionally, jk!! )
THOSE are the ones i'm not sure if i'd let drive the robot lol
the engineers duh, because they know its limits (kinda... ) but some of those other crazy adults.....i'm not so sure

[Pamela]

Originally Posted by Keiko173

Joel i have no doubt, would be awesome, how could he not be?

He could hit something by mistake.....like say the cameraman....


I still believe in the power of Joel though

[ric2006]

our team would be so crazy with reversed roles. But then all I would need to do is scream at the mentors, "what did you do to the program!!!!??" when nothing is wrong, and we would actually change the hardware instead of the program, and it would be much less stressful (even if I had to make all the travel arrangements

[Joel J]

Originally Posted by Pamela

He could hit something by mistake.....like say the cameraman....


I still believe in the power of Joel though

oh man.. I'm telling ya, I saw the CD name, I saw the quote, and I knew immidiately thats what you were going to say.

I still say I planned that .. j/k.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by ric2006

But then all I would need to do is scream at the mentors, "what did you do to the program!!!!??" when nothing is wrong, and we would actually change the hardware instead of the program

Don't you know? There is no such thing as a hardware problem! When something isnt working, it is automatically the program's/programmer's fault!

[ric2006]

That is a utoopian thought

[Pamela]

Originally Posted by Joel J.

oh man.. I'm telling ya, I saw the CD name, I saw the quote, and I knew immidiately thats what you were going to say.

I still say I planned that .. j/k.

Planned or not, the fact the cameraman didn't even flinch until the robot was touching the camera... oh man that made me laugh so hard.. you're my hero

[Frank(Aflak)]

I would like to see Mr. Shen try his hand at driving it. But most repairs are student-done on my team, so that means we would have to let our mentors do all our repairs. Which is bad, because when we need to get to our next match pronto, our mentors can't skip the whole design process. Example: We broke a weld in a corner. A friend and I cut a peice of L-bracket, clamped it in place, drilled the holes and added the bolts in about 5 minutes. Our mentors would have talked and thought too much, and we would have been late.

You could do "mentor matches" as kind of a fun bonus to a competition, though, where your mentors drove and were human players. It would be great.