They're Off!!

[wilsonmw04]

*sigh* I wonder how they are determining who's gets shipped when? We want it yesterday! :-) I haven't been this excited since I was 12 years old and it was x-mas eve.

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

And thus ends any appearances of my life being normal... and to think, I planned on relearning piano before kickoff

Maybe you'll have to teach the robot to play piano.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur

Maybe you'll have to teach the robot to play piano.

Im not going to lie, this comment just made my day, it also means I will spend the rest of the day thinking of how to make a robot play piano...

[Maxpower57]

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

from : http://frcdirector.blogspot.com/2008/11/theyre-off.html

Good Evening Teams,

The first new control system kits have just left the building on their way to teams who paid their registration fee and requested early shipment. The last two items arrived at our warehouse yesterday afternoon and I promised the kits would go out as soon as possible, so now we're shipping out kits as fast as we can pack them. The first 150 went out this evening and we'll get back to work bright and early tomorrow morning. Its not too late to get in on the fun. We'll continue shipping control system kits until December 5th, so if you change your mind, change your settings in TIMS.

46 days until kickoff,
See you then!

I almost cried in happiness when I saw this
Its gonna be a good year!

[billbo911]

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

*sigh* I wonder how they are determining who's gets shipped when? We want it yesterday! :-) I haven't been this excited since I was 12 years old and it was x-mas eve.

Ditto!!!

Honestly, ask the kids on the team, I'm still just a big kid. Balding and graying, but still just a kid.

This season is going to ROCK!!

[johnr]

Sure, everyone is happy know,singing and dancing and then the guy comes out of the woods with a mask and the screaming starts. Well ,some movie line like that.

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by johnr

Sure, everyone is happy know,singing and dancing and then the guy comes out of the woods with a mask and the screaming starts. Well ,some movie line like that.

No,no,no. The screaming starts on Jan 3 when everyone starts screaming "They want us to do what!?!"

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Im not going to lie, this comment just made my day, it also means I will spend the rest of the day thinking of how to make a robot play piano...

Aside: What would be cool is thinking about how to make the robot tune a piano. (To watch someone tune a piano, esp. a grand piano, is an amazing experience.) Then the robot could play its perfectly tuned instrument.

It's good to see so many teams excited about the shipment.

[Russ Beavis]

http://www.gibson.com/robotguitar/

Piano is fun but I prefer the guitar. Gibson's already done this but it would still be a very fun learning exercise in mechanisms, sensors, electronics and controls.

Russ

[Jeff Pahl]

Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur

Maybe you'll have to teach the robot to play piano.

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Im not going to lie, this comment just made my day, it also means I will spend the rest of the day thinking of how to make a robot play piano...

You mean like this???

http://dorkbot.noodlefactory.co.uk/w...te?action=show

The video clips are pretty cool.

[M. Mellott]

Guess we need to hurry up and finish our prototype drive base--Travis and and the programming team are going to be anxious to play!!

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

Aside: What would be cool is thinking about how to make the robot tune a piano. (To watch someone tune a piano, esp. a grand piano, is an amazing experience.) Then the robot could play its perfectly tuned instrument.

It's good to see so many teams excited about the shipment.

Somehow I dont think my mum would be too happy with me poking around inside our piano...

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Somehow I dont think my mum would be too happy with me poking around inside our piano...

Not you, silly, your robot.

Oh wait... what am I saying?!

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

Not you, silly, your robot.

Oh wait... what am I saying?!

Id have to put it in there somehow. But I think she would trust ME more than a robot.

[IndySam]

Yea, we got our tracking number!