pic: Homemade Orbit Ball! (White Paper Coming Soon)

[Cynette]

Originally Posted by Thermal

This game piece fiasco is absurd. Our team is very strapped on money this year and we cannot justify spending 100 dollars for enough gameballs to adequately test our manipulator.

I'm optimistic that once the initial flurry to obtain game pieces subsides that the spirit of "coopertition (cooperation and competition combined) will prevail. I hope that areas where there are multiple teams will generate inventory lists so that teams with few balls will be able to access a sufficient number of balls for robot testing. Of course that doesn't help the remotely located teams or teams not in the US.

I know our team is concerned since we host a pre-ship rally and spending money to buy a full competition quantity of balls is out of the question. If we can make the balls cheaper, we may start production soon to at least generate enough to give teams a good simulation at Rochesters Rally.

Ah, let me do the math: Four Volunteers making One ball a night x 40 nights until rally = 160 balls! Now if I could find four volunteers willing to give up their evenings for the next 40 days, and who aren't already working on building a robot, all would be well. Hello out there! Any takers?