QUESTION OF THE WEEK!!! [08-26-01]

[Jay Lundy]

We actually have quite a few, but I don't know where we got them all. All I know is that I've seen several (some RC's, some OI's) lying around and as far as I know all of them are in perfect condition. I even stripped out all the old wiring (and I do mean ALL) off our '99 robot and replaced it with the new RC and stuff as well as replaced the motor mounts and drill motors (that was my job for the summer.)

I really don't know what we're gonna do with the extras. It is helpful to have an extra one when playing around with the programming (especially since this was the first year any of the programming team had ever used basic stamp.) It was really helpful to be able to hook up 1 joystick, 1 motor, 1 gyro, and a couple of other things just to play around and learn the code.

Until the need arises, ours will probably just sit around and be spares in case ours gets damaged (though I've never heard of anything like that happening to one.)

Oh yeah and all of our robots since the team's first year (1999) still work, and we've even made some improvements ('99 got a complete rewiring and half wood/half metal motor mounts to replace the old all wood ones; '00 had its bumpers removed and is now getting new wheel mounts to replace the hastily done, overprotected ones that are on there now)