Buttons, My Button Collection + Website!

[the_short1]

Hey everyone, last year, if you went to GLR or GTR you may have seen me walking around the pits, getting to know other teams better, seeing different designs and such. Then i met Steve Warren, and his lab coat filled with buttons, and it inspired me to start my own collection.

So at Atlanta... i collected over 120 buttons! I just made a Cape and pinned all the buttons to it rather then around my neck on lanyards. Before i made the cape, i made photos of them all using my flatbed scanner, and i just created a website: www.cricketsnorth.com/robotics/ to showcase all the teams that i did have.

If I don't have your team's button / want to submit a new one, find me at Great Lakes Regional, or Waterloo Regional & possibly nats again, and button me

tell me what you think
p.s. if you have a negative comment comming about the use of the Canada flag, keep in mind; I am a VERY proud Canadian, and If im traveling around the world "I can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack." so essentially thats what im doing.
-kevin
Team 1596

[Courtneyb1023]

Thats awesome! You have 1023's button and weepul (the yellow blob thing)! Im impressed!

[Aren_Hill]

oh thats nothing last year from St louis and nationals i collected over 230 buttons and wore them to school the day i got back from nationals they were all on my sweatshirt and whenever i moved clink clink clink i got some weird looks

[Adam Richards]

Hmm... I'm considering sending some 1341 coconut shells to people this year...

How exactly would you affix those to the cape?

[irishninja]

Last year, my rookie year, I collected so many buttons that other teams and my team saw me as that button guy. People would find me and give me buttons that I didn't have just so I'd add another to my collection. I believe after everything I now have five shoeboxes full of buttons all one of a kind? Day before New York Regional I wore them all on a t shirt. I made a lot of noise, and got a lot of attention. It was hilarious.

[the_short1]

Originally Posted by Adam Richards

How exactly would you affix those to the cape?

i attached them as you would to clothing.. but ill tell you a secret trick.. use a hot glue gun to put a dab of glue where the pin connects.. . so they cant slip out and poke you / loose one.. . i needed that because i shorted by team number, and it would mess it all up with a random button filling in hoes...

oh.. and my cape definately makes a lot of noise too.. . . team members got mad at me because i wore it for a whole meeting to test the fit and comfort of it.. hehe

[Rohan_DHS]

haha! nicely done Kevin looks pretty good

[Squishylizard]

Words cannot describe...how truely awesome that is.

As they say, to get a button is human, to get enough buttons to make a suit of armour and cape is devine.

[Adam Richards]

Originally Posted by the_short1

i attached them as you would to clothing.. but ill tell you a secret trick.. use a hot glue gun to put a dab of glue where the pin connects.. . so they cant slip out and poke you / loose one.. . i needed that because i shorted by team number, and it would mess it all up with a random button filling in hoes...

oh.. and my cape definately makes a lot of noise too.. . . team members got mad at me because i wore it for a whole meeting to test the fit and comfort of it.. hehe

I was actually referring to the coconut shells, as there is no pin on them.

[Jeremiah Johnson]

4 years of FRC and I have accumulated an unimaginable amount of buttons. Most of which rusted and made too much of a mess so, sadly, I had to get rid of them.

[GlitterRave113]

Ok, so now I've started to collect buttons too! I decied to cover one leg of my funky jeans with them, but so far I only have three, and I was wondering how you guys got so many. Do you just ask people for them? Or, if any of you are at the NJ Regionals today or tomorrow, would you help me start collecting them?

[DjAlamose]

Originally Posted by GlitterRave113

Ok, so now I've started to collect buttons too! I decided to cover one leg of my funky jeans with them, but so far I only have three, and I was wondering how you guys got so many. Do you just ask people for them? Or, if any of you are at the NJ Regional’s today or tomorrow, would you help me start collecting them?

All you should have to do is stop by people's pits and talk with them for 5 seconds and they should be like "hey want a button". Or at least that’s what we do.
I was never really interested all that much in buttons. Most likely because of the pain they inflict when they rip into your skin as you pick up the robot off the playing field... But I digress. Some teams have some great buttons. We usually do a button game where you have to collect all of our buttons to spell something out, But because of funding we wont be able to do prizes this year but that isn't stopping us from doing the game. The only difference is this year instead of selling something, the buttons are built off the Fusion Friends: Senior Safety, Gear Girl, Drill Dude, and Mrs. Mechanic (A.K.A. Mrs. Mechanist). Plus they have their Arch nemesis (not on a button) the Velcro Vixen, Luther Lexan, and Princess Plexiglas. Should be for some interesting times with people running around from our team in super hero fashion… I can see it now… Maybe I should go stop it before any one gets hurt.

[the_short1]

Thanks for all the positive feedback guys/girls

Our team gave out these robot/pit safety and inspection checklists, with our sponsers and a marker to EVERY team at nationals, and i delivered about a third of them, so i had to talk to aprox 100 teams already.... most just gave them to me seeing how many i was already collecting.. for ones that dont openly, just ask (politely, remember GP , also its best to give something to their team member first (like a trade)

edit: http://instigators1596.com/safety.html << we acually posted those lists here for anyone wanting one .html, .doc and .pdf formats available.

[phrontist]

Your providing a cool service... keep it up! Pass the torch to younger members of your team!

[the_short1]

EXTRA! EXTRA! We just started making buttons for the 2006 Season tonight! We have a large variety of styles, and in large and standard size.

For a sneak peak.. i posted the 2 that i designed in my button gallery on page 1, www.cricketsnorth.com/robotics/