2008 FIRST game

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by alex1699

doesnt say hamster hmmm...

Don't bother. 1923 has hamster-drive perfected.

[dtape]

Originally Posted by Libby K

Don't bother. 1923 has hamster-drive perfected.

Do you have proof?

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by dtape

Do you have proof?

I'm sure if we checked their reciepts/invoices there'd be a nice little bill from Petland for fifty hamsters...

[Cartwright]

What if the game is like a pick up sticks game. Maybe poles of PVC would be used or something. That would be neat, and it would cool because poles are much more difficult to handle.

[Doug G]

Originally Posted by dlavery

Of course, if the ball were made of tungsten, it would weigh about 3.809 pounds - about 2.5 times as much as the container itself. The dynamic properties of such an object would be .... interesting.

-dave

2.5 times, hmm??

[Doug G]

Originally Posted by njamietech

Personally I don't care what piece they use. Just as long as the game is not a copy of a previous year.

But I do prefer cubes over having balls (again).

It's not like they've ever borrowed ideas from a previous year.

2004 had elements from many previous years.

I do think we're do for the return of a low bar that you could choose to go under like in 01 and 03. Didn't someone mention limbo?

[Stillen]

they keep the "objects" simple, nuthing complex, something over the shelf. I like the idea of the five gallon buckets, handles removed ofcourse....We're about due for a change of motors also, those CIM motors have about had their life span.

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by dlavery

Of course, if the ball were made of tungsten, it would weigh about 3.809 pounds - about 2.5 times as much as the container itself. The dynamic properties of such an object would be .... interesting.

Originally Posted by Doug G

2.5 times, hmm??

A three inch diameter steel ball (if I could find one) would weigh just about 4 lb., and would fit nicely inside the PVC. So the interesting dynamic properties that Dave mentions could be realized without using tungsten. Just a cost-saving suggestion.

[AndyB]

Quick someone start looking at the records for a purchase of 10000 3" steel balls!

Or just look for the FedEx truck with the rear bumper dragging on the ground...

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by AndyB

Quick someone start looking at the records for a purchase of 10000 3" steel balls!

Or just look for the FedEx truck with the rear bumper dragging on the ground...

A slight problem just occurred to me -- if FIRST distributes 3" diameter steel balls, then the TechnoKats will be tempted to modify their air-cannon to fire the danged things! No one will be safe at the IRI!

[BanksKid]

Originally Posted by Richard

A slight problem just occurred to me -- if FIRST distributes 3" diameter steel balls, then the TechnoKats will be tempted to modify their air-cannon to fire the danged things! No one will be safe at the IRI!

they wouldn't do that.......it wouldnt be safe ....................but i do like the sound of "i graciously destroyed your robot in a professional manner"

[wolfj]

If I've said it once, I've said it 100 times! Those tubes at the end of last year's video were not a hint! They were a joke explaining where the "Rack 'n' Roll" idea came from!

I apologize if that was rude, but PLEASE!

[Schnabel]

Originally Posted by Richard

A slight problem just occurred to me -- if FIRST distributes 3" diameter steel balls, then the TechnoKats will be tempted to modify their air-cannon to fire the danged things! No one will be safe at the IRI!

Air cannon, What air cannon? O you mean that thing that destroyed a ceiling tile at IRI last year?

Originally Posted by BanksKid

they wouldn't do that.......it wouldnt be safe ....................but i do like the sound of "i graciously destroyed your robot in a professional manner"

Well the cannon does speak for itself, but it is more like BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! I GRACIOUSLY DESTROYED YOUR BOT! DON'T GET MUCH BETTER THAN THIS! THAT'S WHY THEY PAY ME THE BIG BUCKS! [/sarcasim]

Besides our next task is punkin' chuckin'! [/sarcasim for real]

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by wolfj

If I've said it once, I've said it 100 times! Those tubes at the end of last year's video were not a hint! They were a joke explaining where the "Rack 'n' Roll" idea came from!

I apologize if that was rude, but PLEASE!

Oh? Really? And upon what information is this conclusion being based?

[xrabohrok]

This is wierd, but maybe they will try something entirely new. They might be beginning to tire of balls, balls, pvc shape, balls.....