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Unread 25-04-2004, 15:15
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Did someone work on robot overnight?

I just remembered that Friday night after the pits closed in Atlanta, I saw what looked like a team with their robot on the cart headed into the Omni Hotel. They were too far away and I could not recognize the team. I am not even sure that they had a robot, it could have been spare parts. Did anyone else get a better view? Did a team actually take their robot to the hotel and work on it after the pits closed?
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Re: Did someone work on robot overnight?

I think one of the teams got to take thier robot out of the pits for an interview for some TV network.
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Unread 25-04-2004, 15:21
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Re: Did someone work on robot overnight?

From my knowledge, every robot was snuggled warmly into their pit. FIRST does have someone check the pits for robots after closing.
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Re: Did someone work on robot overnight?

I saw that too and remarked to my teammates about it, I believe it was 254, but we then realised it was their practice robot, so they had every right to =D
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Re: Did someone work on robot overnight?

That was us, team 254. And it was our real robot. "Oh no!" you say, "the cheesy poofs must be cheaters who take their robot out to work on it overnight.

Actually it was for an interview on CNN headline news with Dean Kamen. We were accompanied by FIRST staff members, and Dean Kamen. We were also not allowed to work on it (most of the time it was just sitting there by itself). Our robot was promplty escorted back to the pit area. Don't worry we couldn't have worked on our robot even if we wanted to, which we didn't.
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Re: Did someone work on robot overnight?

yeah, in 2000 we also got interviewed (by national geographic at the ny regional) so we were allowed to take out our robot from the pits but we also had to agree to make no repairs on it. So it happens probably more than people think
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Re: Did someone work on robot overnight?

Yeah, that was funny. As soon as we started walking out of the dome with our robot sourrounded by thousands of other FIRST kids we knew someone was going to get the wrong idea. There wasn't much we could do about it at the time though.
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Re: Did someone work on robot overnight?

I also saw a full robot walking into the courtyard marriot. I dont wana acuse anyone, but that robot looked like it had been in competition
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Re: Did someone work on robot overnight?

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That was us, team 254. And it was our real robot. "Oh no!" you say, "the cheesy poofs must be cheaters who take their robot out to work on it overnight.

Actually it was for an interview on CNN headline news with Dean Kamen. We were accompanied by FIRST staff members, and Dean Kamen. We were also not allowed to work on it (most of the time it was just sitting there by itself). Our robot was promplty escorted back to the pit area. Don't worry we couldn't have worked on our robot even if we wanted to, which we didn't.
Acutally we saw you guys while eating dinner, and Dean too. Our whole team was like 'WTF? Why is that robot out?' Then Dean rides by, and we still don't make the connection, then we see on the big TV the FIRST thing on Headline News, then we were like "OOOOHHHHHHH!!!!"
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Re: Did someone work on robot overnight?

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I also saw a full robot walking into the courtyard marriot. I dont wana acuse anyone, but that robot looked like it had been in competition
The mariot was probably us, we had our practice robot and needed to get some of the identical spares off of it (Wheels) in case we needed them at the competition. Fortunately we didn't.
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Re: Did someone work on robot overnight?

Busted.... Step away from the robot.

You guys were great on headline news. When I saw Dean holding the ball, and your robot grab at it, I thought..... This could get really ugly.....


It was a great spot... Congrats
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Re: Did someone work on robot overnight?

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Busted.... Step away from the robot.

You guys were great on headline news. When I saw Dean holding the ball, and your robot grab at it, I thought..... This could get really ugly.....


It was a great spot... Congrats
I still have yet to see the video did some one capture it?
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Re: Did someone work on robot overnight?

Back in 2002 at the NYC Regional, we, along with two other teams (sorry guys, forgot your numbers) were on the morning show for CBS. I don't know how the robots were transported to and from the competition to the studio (I think FIRST had some part in it but I'm not sure). Anyways, it was really cold that morning and the demonstration was outside, so most people were more worried about staying warm than anything else (including working on that robot ).
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Re: Did someone work on robot overnight?

speaking of overweight...

@ UCF regional... thursday @ 5:30 p.m. we went over to the inspection... checked our weight of the robot and found out that it came out to be 137... it was like rock falling on our heads that time... well we all went back to the pit... sat down and talked about where we can take the weight down.. we milled a lot down from the arm and took of the atwood motors... there goes our 7 pounds... and we were in the weight limit... i will never forget that evening in the pits...
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Re: Did someone work on robot overnight?

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speaking of overweight...

@ UCF regional... thursday @ 5:30 p.m. we went over to the inspection... checked our weight of the robot and found out that it came out to be 137... it was like rock falling on our heads that time... well we all went back to the pit... sat down and talked about where we can take the weight down.. we milled a lot down from the arm and took of the atwood motors... there goes our 7 pounds... and we were in the weight limit... i will never forget that evening in the pits...
Yeah, I remember that night too. Arefin was in our pits every 5 minutes..."do you have a bolt that looks like this?" I held the flashlight while they reassembled it. Too bad "we'll fix it in software" doesn't work for weight problems. Which begs the eternal question, "which is heavier in code - ones or zeros?"
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