pic: tytus's hoverbot

[Max Lobovsky]

What is the "placebo"? The only reference I have heard to that are the "placebo bots" used at BattleCry for matches where teams could not attend.

[Blacknight]

i must admit it kinda looks like a ddr pad when the picture is in the fingernail form
hmm maybe that's a sign to stop ddr'ing every day...
but good job

[JVN]

Originally Posted by maxlobovsky

What is the "placebo"? The only reference I have heard to that are the "placebo bots" used at BattleCry for matches where teams could not attend.

Back in the olden days of FIRST (before my time)... FIRST was 1 vs. 1 vs. 1. Due to this format (in an effort to give all teams the same number of matches) some matches only had 2 teams in them. FIRST had on hand a "placebo robot" to fill in and play the role of the 3rd team.

As Joe mentioned, one year it was a hovercraft.
Another year it was a RC vacuum cleaner.


Cool stuff,
John

[Tytus Gerrish]

sometimes you just have to escape the wheel. for those of you who assume i come up with these things for first. I think i already know that alot of the things i come up with are not practical at all for first, thanks for the constant reminder.Tho first could present a game that a hoverbot would Be perfect for, They wont, but they could. the hoverbot only "hovers" a few thousands of an inch off the ground. just enough for it not to ,or to barley touch it and reduce friction with the "air cussion" (thin layer of moving air seprating the craft from the ground) it creates. iTs anphibous and Realy fast. thats prety much all it does. to "hover 10' in the air and hang you would need a mechanism witch created an "air Pillar" (plume of jet exaust projected downwards) or "Lift" (lifting force created by a wing using Brenuli's princpal). i just want you all to exersise that Muscle "hovering" between your ears with some out of the box ideas. in first theres, wheeles, treads witch use wheeles, omni-wheelws witch are just wheels with more wheels on them. and there was the B.E.A.S.T. crawling along with feet. Out of first unconventional locomotion is much more common and practical. like i wouldnt ride in a vehicle with treads from West Palm Beach, florida to say.. manchester, New hamshire. i would much rather ride in a vehicle with wings. theres a new idea for a mars robot that dosent even touch the surface, it deplous wings durring entry and flys in the martain atmosphere until it deplets its bateries, Woops... so it does eventually "land". and the Navy uses The L.C.A.C. Hovercraft transport to move tanks, trucks and things like that from ship to shore and beyond. So once and a while no matter how addicted you may be, try to think outside The 48'x24' box of first.

[Stephen Kowski]

Originally Posted by Tytus Gerrish

sometimes you just have to escape the wheel.So once and a while no matter how addicted you may be, try to think outside The 48'x24' box of first.

No no no the box is very comfortable....I like the box....i wonder if this discussion has any bearing on the spamthingacon, but I will see soon enough

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by maxlobovsky

What is the "placebo"? The only reference I have heard to that are the "placebo bots" used at BattleCry for matches where teams could not attend.

I've added an entry in the FIRSTwiki. http://www.firstwiki.org/index.php/Placebo

[SkitzoSmurf]

Woooooooow, it looks like something the teenage mutant ninja turtles would use with the lime greenishness of it. Thats really kool though, are all the components revealed in that pic, six fans and some other stuff i can't really make out? simple and effective, i like.

You know what I want. . .
A HOVERWAY!!!
But then again that would defeat the whole purpose of balancing someone on two wheels. . .
back to the drawing board.
ok, how about just a hovermobile with handlebars? Ha, huh? COME ON!!!