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FRC #0548 (General Motors Robostangs)
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Re: pic: 2007 FRC Team 548 Robostangs Robot Pic2

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Originally Posted by Jim Meyer View Post
They always look to pretty before adding in all the ugly wiring, motors and such. Looking pretty sharp guys, even with all that other stuff.

We actually have a long history of doing stuff like this. The 1999 robot looked very similar but the arms were used to elevate the robot to drive on to the puck. We did a pair of high torque, high traction wheels on the '02 bot where we tipped the robot to engage them when lifting the goal. As someone mentioned, our '04 robot had two of these also. I've always liked the setup too. Very robust.
Jim, you know that your designs have influenced almost every part of this robot... The thing is that I can only hope of being able to create some designs as good as I am used to with the hot bot. When you grow up working with the hot team, it kinda has a way with sticking with you. Over the 6 or 7 years I have worked with team 67 I have learned what works good and what doesn't... sometimes it takes a little while for my team to believe me that things work, but it always seams to come back to saying... "Believe me the hot team did is in 200X I know that it works awesome.... and now if there is any problems I just say.... Jim Meyer tried this before and believe me it works great.... So just to let you know the design of this bot was influenced very much by team 67's designs, and also incorporates some of your highly influential designs... My dad always tells me that you "Think out side of the box" and that is what I want to be able to do. This year I think that I somewhat leaned my team toward thinking outside the box, and I think that the outcome was amazing. I have taken everything that I have learned over the years from one of the highest respected teams, team 67, and applied it to this team, team 548, to try to transform it into a team that could compete at the high level. So I want to say thanks Jim, Dave, Kenny, Tom, Walt, Lori, Rodney, and all other mentors that have helped me develop the true "Thinking outside the box" attitude, and I just want you to know that what you do really does reflect on the kids that grew up working with your team. Thanks for taking the time to check out our robot, and thanks even more for being an extremely large part of my engineering experience. I want to wish you and team 67 the best this year. I will see you all at the great lakes regional! Hopefully I wont have to drive against the team that I grew up with.

P.S. Anyone who isn't really sure that the HOT team lives up to all the hype, and isn't sure that they deserved the chairmans award in 2005, believe me they do!
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