Dare I say Footballs?

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Posted by Rob Vetere, Engineer on team #177, Bobcat Robotics, from South WIndsor HS and UTC- International Fuel Cells and ONSI.

Posted on 5/1/99 9:48 AM MST


In Reply to: Dare I say Footballs? posted by Tom Lish on 4/30/99 5:38 PM MST:



: One of the teachers on our team has been waiting for F.I.R.S.T. to use footballs for the last 5 years. Will it be next year? Who knows? I think that it would be a good challenge. What do you guys think?


I too have been waiting for footballs and i loved the ease of the big balls. But i am nearly certain that FIRST will use floppies again next year. Think about it, they are light weight so the devices that support them can use less expensive materials to maintain the weight. They are NOT a constant shape so a team cant build a static end-effector that easily harvests the floppies like most teams did for ladder logic of toroid terror. The floppies make the design of the robots much more creative, i think. I can confidently say that you'll see floppies again in many years of FIRST.

Rob