Let's make it easier for the rookies

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Posted by Mike King, Other on team #88, TJ², from Bridgewater Raynham and Johnson & Johnson Professional.

Posted on 5/15/99 11:33 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: the awful truth about drill transmissions... posted by Kate Leach on 5/15/99 9:01 PM MST:



: 'There was an extremely logical reason for that particular desicion.'

: Care to share this extremely logical reason???

Sure.

It was our rookie year.

Is that enough?


The game was Hexagon Havoc. (gather the small balls, and the 2 large balls and put them in the goal)

First let me say I was not on the build team, so i don't know all the particulars. (couldn't make the time commitment )

The only way we could get our ball collector, and our scissor lift (one of the first used in FIRST) to work, was to use the drill motors to power them. We were one of those teams that showed up early just so we could finish building our robot.
Ahh to be rookies again. (NOT). We had such troubles with our mechanical subcomponets, we never really had time to program the brain. In fact, we jury rigged our own speed controler, using Reed switches and Servo's. FIRST Didn't like that, (12V at how many AMPs thru switches designed for What?) The guy said if they had a most creative rule infraction award, we would have got it, then he showed us how to program the brain. It still was great competion. We placed 25th out of 47 teams, won best sportmanship, and got to see the HoverCraft Placebo! Not bad for our rookie year.

Mike King
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