Count the Rivets!

[Wayne Doenges]

This year, at the Championaship, Team 1501 will be bringing the ever popular 'Count the Rivets' contest. Guess how many rivets are in Team 1501's robot and you could win a 1 gig MP3 player.
The contest is simple, the closest to the actual count, without going over, wins. Hint: The total is NOT 1501. Only one person knows the actual count...Me
The MP3 player is sponsored by http://www.mrplc.com/
See you at the Championship,

[rw55ryan]

ooo sounds cool

[MrForbes]

is there a picture of the 1501 robot somewhere? I looked on the THRUST home page, didn't find any links to pictures.....

I like rivets

[Chris_Elston]

Originally Posted by squirrel

is there a picture of the 1501 robot somewhere? I looked on the THRUST home page, didn't find any links to pictures.....

I like rivets

Rules are no pictures on the website until after the season is over ;-). Actually until after the robot is shipped. So the kids should be posting some shortly.

Here is a picture.

And some videos:

Low quailty YouTube version: Stream Video Version 2.0

Low quailty Windows Media: Download 5.3MB video 256/Kbs WMV (recommend right click download)

High quailty MPEG2 version: Download 124MB video MPEG-2 DivX Version 2.0(recommend right click download)

[Stvn]

Originally Posted by Wayne Doenges

Hint: The total is NOT 1501.

You're lying, aren't you. It's a plot to keep the mp3 player for yourself. Well, I'm onto you. Expect someone to guess 1501, and know that that person will take home the prize.

[=Martin=Taylor=]

700

Thats my guess. I did a rough count, and thats my aproximation.

[Wayne Doenges]

The guessing will commence at the Chanpionship So hold your guesses.

[Wayne Doenges]

We will be taking guesses Thursday and Friday. We will give out the prize Saturday morning.

Got rivets? We do.

[Wayne Doenges]

The final count was....................1614 rivets
The winner of the MP3 player was Mike McGeorge of Team 1506 with a guess of 1486. Congrats Mike

[zander_108]

Originally Posted by Wayne Doenges

The final count was....................1614 rivets
The winner of the MP3 player was Mike McGeorge of Team 1506 with a guess of 1486. Congrats Mike

and of course the irony of this is that anyone who had guessed 1501 would in fact had won, just because its even closer....

[MrForbes]

and they also went and swapped out the rivets on Thursday....just to make it more confusing...

[Kevyn H.]

Lol......our 2 sets of wings were identical in the sense of how many rivets we had, so we didn't cheat. The only difference was our holes we created in the new wings with dimples to increase traction.

[Chris_Elston]

Originally Posted by squirrel

and they also went and swapped out the rivets on Thursday....just to make it more confusing...

Jim,

It sure was nice talking with you, and thanks for the great picture!

[Dan Petrovic]

Do you guys ever have problems with riveting tools breaking?

If so: How many do you go through per season?
If not: What brand do you use?

[Goober!!!]

Originally Posted by InfernoX14

Do you guys ever have problems with riveting tools breaking?

If so: How many do you go through per season?
If not: What brand do you use?

1501 has the same pop riveter guns from 2005

And im not sure what brand they are?