Robots gone.. Now what?

[Matt Royek]

I think we are going to find interesting new uses for our 2 older robots, including improving the one that we have already converted into an air cannon

Let the good times roll.

[IraJason]

Originally Posted by Rich Kressly

Gee that's funny. I didn't know you were staying at my house, Mike
I got a chance to see my oldest son's karate class for the first time this winter tonight. After that I'm going to sleep, going to pay a little more attention to my actual job, maybe even notice when the sun goes up and down.

So that's why you're never busy when I come into your class in the middle of the day.

Now that the robot is finished, its time to go back into the real world... Not sure if I want to go back though...

[KenWittlief]

I tried to be strong, I tried to not think about the robot....

Will I think of you?

Only when I'm sad and lost, tired of trying
when the tears and pains of the world all seem to be mine.
When there is no one but you who would really understand
the emptiness of my soul, the sorrow of trying and failing,
of knowing that life can be a trial
where the judge and jury sometimes sit with faces of stone,
and will not respond even to a cry from the truest heart.

When I know that you, and only you could see all this
and hear all this and be with me in my time of sadness
in silent understanding
and shed tears for my sorrow,

Then I will think of you

Only when I'm alone staring out my window into space...
Which becomes you
Your love smiling back to the warmth of my heart,
Filling the emptiness, the lonliness, with your being.

Only then, will I think of you. -Leonard Nimoy

[Michelle Celio]

Now that the robots gone, I chat on-line =[ sad I know. But I keep asking people

It's 9:00 Do you know where your bott is?

Just replacing the time =]

[Spiffizzle]

I miss our robot...
We get to see it next week though!
I'm so excited!!!

For now... time to catch up on sleep...
Finish a few things for regionals...
School work to be done...

this will be a boring week without our meetings!

[DarMagi]

Now that the robot is shipped, maybe I can get to bed before the alarm clock goes off =]

[Rohan_DHS]

Originally Posted by Fruity Pebbles

Now that the robots gone, I chat on-line =[ sad I know. But I keep asking people

It's 9:00 Do you know where your bott is?

Just replacing the time =]

hopefully somewhere safe...but its most probably at some warehouse, or storage facility right now...or wherever they felt like taking it....i miss it *goes into depression*

and now...back to focusing on studies and...sleep...lots of it.

[LightWaves1636]

Originally Posted by Bharat Nain

Robot gone? Now time to make a second one. The fun starts all over again.

same here, so the drivers and human element can practice more, and we're making bets on what our robot actually weighs, plus cleaning the shop, promoting our bot, and packing stuff for the comp, last year as rookies the team pretty much brought the shop with them, this year, what we bring is more practical, and I think the only other thing we're doing is making autonomous codes and coming up with game strategies.

when we our bot got picked up today we tried to ask if we can open it and say our last good-byes and quite possibly stuff one of our team members just to make sure the bot will be safe.

[burningblane]

we're making a list of stuff we need to do as soon as we get are robot unloaded when we get to UCF were also trying to make stuff that stands out differently from teams

[David Brinza]

Re-acquaint ourselves with normal sleep patterns and family members...

We pulled off a major marathon session in the past week. Unfortunately, we didn't participate in the SoCal pre-ship scrimmage hosted by our partner team, High Tech High, because we were in hyper-panic mode. We received some very gracious assistance from teams attending the scrimmage, especially team 599 - Thanks, again!

Monday morning our two major assemblies were weighed and we came in at almost 150 pounds . It's amazing what can happen in a little over a day. We put a robot in the crate today with all of our planned features available - with three fewer motors than in the original design. We didn't get much time to test for effectiveness and still have some trades to make at our first regional, but this afternoon we shipped a robot just under 120 pounds. The students and Wendy Wooten from Team 4 put in a tremendous effort and we think it will pay off big time later.

I'll try to post some photos later...after a bit of recovery time.

[Nita]

Go practice with the pit orchestra until regionals, then go back to pit orchestra until the spring musical is over.

[Arkorobotics]

I need to catch up on my school work, and just wait until competition in Southern Cal.

Wait... did we ship the freshmen in box?!?!

[MikeJ675]

1. let my hands heal.
2. Begin the ball launcher competition. Very few restrictions, mostly nothing explosive or dangerous to operate. Should be interesting.
3. Figure out how to get the last 2-3 pounds out of the robot. (We already took over 15lbs out of it this past weekend.)

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Make a short film about how I have nothing to do once the robot is shipped.

[robodude03]

Well our team, 399, is wrapping up our Chairman's Award and Woodie Flower's Award submissions. We are also running some final membership paperwork for the FLIRT, FIRST League of International Recruitment and Teamwork, network (www.team399.org). All along we have been working on our team website and have been updating it with all the latest the net has to offer, including an 8-minute video shown at our media event. So needless to say we will continue to be busy, but with the added sleep not had during the six weeks .