pic: Team 45 and their robot.

[Qbranch]

Andy were you at Muncie and I missed you? I kept thinking when i was driving... "Don't hit andy... don't hit andy... bad luck if your own transmissions run in to their creator..."

You're guys robot is SO awesome! Love the concept!

I remember we were watching your gripper-go-round (as our team dubbed it) and had trouble concentrating on what we were doing. (Not that that would be a strategy... )

-q

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by Qbranch

gripper-go-round

We've been trying to think of a name for that move... "gripper-go-round" may be the best so far. "Overhead Trackball bowling" is another one I've heard.

I'm sure that there will be some names next week in St. Louis.

AB

[Chris_Elston]

Originally Posted by Qbranch

"Don't hit andy... don't hit andy... bad luck if your own transmissions run in to their creator..."
-q

Apparently, you didn't see when 1501

DID RUN OVER Andy...one of our new "rookie" drivers...thanks for stopping our bot.

Sorry about that Andy.... ;-)

[Jim E]

It reminds me of Mission Mayhem at the Fort Lauderdale, FL Science Museum in 2005. I had to do something similar to get the robot back to Jupiter, FL. Hurricane Dean was off the Tampa coast.

[Schnabel]

OK, so I was asked to explain what "Ham Tray" means. To make a VERY long story short, when Andy was in college, the term was used at meetings to prevent people from going into tangents and/or over explaining something. When this would happen, a person would raise their had, say "hamtray" and then the meeting would continue with what was next. So this year, Andy noticed that we would go into many different tangents with pointless discussions, so he introduced "hamtray" to us. Fast forward to the last meeting before ship, and we were deciding on what to call the robot. Someone began to go off on a tangent, so I called a "hamtray" to make the very long meeting hurry up. From that point, we decided to add it to the potential names on the board, and it ended up winning. So in other words, it is an inside joke.

P.S. As a team decision, you will have to wait for a while until some real specs and pics are posted. For some, this will come at St. Louis. For everyone else, it will be just a little bit after that. For now, treat this picture as a game hint! : )

[Sean Schuff]

Come to think of it, their robot reminds me of their team trailer at IRI a year or two ago!! Is that where the saran wrap came from? And would it be a legal defensive maneuver to saran wrap your opponents together on the field??

Hmmmm...

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by Schnabel

P.S. As a team decision, you will have to wait for a while until some real specs and pics are posted. For some, this will come at St. Louis. For everyone else, it will be just a little bit after that. For now, treat this picture as a game hint! : )

OK so how much you payin' to keep the picks I have off of the net?

[Schnabel]

Originally Posted by IndySam

OK so how much you payin' to keep the picks I have off of the net?

I have a pocket full of Gracious Professionalism! How about you?

[Mike Copioli]

Originally Posted by Jessica Stidham

The shirts say "Ft/S" also you just can't see it =].

"Ham Tray" comes from and Andy Baker story. When we were deciding on the design of our robot Andy decided to tell us a college story. He talked about how he was in a Frat and the meetings always lasted way longer than what they should. If I remeber right there was a guy that was in charge of punlic affairs or something like that, and he went on and one about a ham tray at one of the meetings. After that any time someone wanted to stop a certain discussion in the metting, they said "Ham Tray" and that was the end of it. After Baker told us this story we started using it during our meetings. When we were trying to come up with a robot name that somehow snuck its way onto the board of ideas, and it won.

I like the pig farmer theory better. I'm stick'n with that. Oink.. Oink

See you at nationals.

[JaneYoung]

And to think I thought it was a description of the robot. What was I thinking?!

[Greg Needel]

for anyone wondering what it looks like under the wrapping I found a picture on their web gallery http://www.technokats.org/gallery2/d...3/DSCN0014.JPG

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by Greg Needel

for anyone wondering what it looks like under the wrapping I found a picture on their web gallery http://www.technokats.org/gallery2/d...3/DSCN0014.JPG

old news greg.... i saw it about a week ago.


it does look good, wish i could see it up close!

[afi419]

they're trying to rippen their robot

[Ryan Dognaux]

Well since the cat seems to be out of the bag, you can check out some of the photo's that I took when Team 45 let us come practice on their field. Check out team 45 here: End of Build Season Album

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Greg Needel

for anyone wondering what it looks like under the wrapping I found a picture on their web gallery http://www.technokats.org/gallery2/d...3/DSCN0014.JPG

But which one is the real one Greg? The one of the left has a 6WD and bumpers, while the one of the right has sporty 6" AM Mecanums and four additional pistons attached to the claw/shoulder.