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Posted by Mike King.

Other on team #88, TJ², from Bridgewater Raynham and Johnson & Johnson Professional.

Posted on 7/13/99 9:56 PM MST


In Reply to: More info, and a little oppinion of my own posted by Daniel on 7/13/99 9:11 PM MST:



I agree with some of your points. In fact, if you had anazlyed our stragiy, we would clamp onto the pole, raise basket, then raise robot. When out robot is lifted off the ground, it becomes very untippable. (Remember the 1997 incident that Mike mentioned, we learned from that)

Although i doubt you ever saw it, we had full abiltiy to get on top of the puck. We just never did, because we would go for floppies until the last 30 seconds, and by that time it's very hard to push your way onto the puck. But when were on the puck, we also clamped onto the pole to stablize ourselves.

Now back to my point for writing this message, (the preceding was a tangent, we all love explaining our robot.)

The comment was made in 1998, and I'm going to attribute it to Joe Johnson, but I do not recall who said it excatly, and the exact wording, but you'll get the jist.

'If the competition comes down to how can tip who first, you'd better watch out. You'd see teams like Beatty, Chief Delphi, and TJ² launching the robots into the stands.'

It struck me funny at the time. Then it made me think about that engineer who was involved in the grill lighting contest with Liquid Oxygen.


I'm including a link to that engineers home page