Team 375 about 98 percent done!

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Posted by Lenny Kravets at 2/18/2001 11:22 PM EST


Student on team #375, Robotic Plague, from Staten Island Tech and Verizon.



Just made my account and checking in. We had some great test runs today. Anyone else have the tower fall right onto the robot or the robot roll over and still work? We have experienced both now and the robot is still in good shape. Tomorrow will put finishing touches on the bot and we are ready to go. Key features are speed, balancing one bin on ramp and "monitoring the ramp". Original plan of balancing two towers on ramp was scrapped because we felt the drill motors on our chain drive could not take that kind of pressure.

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Posted by Katie Storch at 2/19/2001 8:03 PM EST


Student on team #86, Resistance, from Stanton College Prep and Vistakon.


In Reply to: Team 375 about 98 percent done!
Posted by Lenny Kravets on 2/18/2001 11:22 PM EST:



This year we decided to mentor a rookie team here in Jacksonville. They brought their robot to 'play' on our practice field. It was the squirreliest thing ever. It was about about 1.5' tall and had front wheel drive (the back wheels were just casters....) needless to say, it couldn't go in a straight line and whenever it went over the bridge it did a 360 spin that looked absolutely... strange. My fellow driver from our team (resistance) gave the driving a go and managed to flip it over... and the coach was like.. oh crap.. but she flipped it over just before he got out there to do it himself. I thought it was cool in that... thank god it's not my robot way.

As for ours.. well.. we've had it tip quite a few times. More than a few of them were my fault as co-driver..but.. shh!!

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Posted by Em Youngberg at 02/21/2001 6:53 PM EST


Student on team #86, Resistance, from Stanton College Prep and Vistakon/JEA.


In Reply to: Re: The squirreliest thing I've ever seen...
Posted by Katie Storch on 2/19/2001 8:03 PM EST:



That robot is fast and well-designed. After I flipped it, its ball-manipulating arm righted it. That's just cool. It ran great for the rest of the day. Anyone else have a righting device? (I'll be glad to test it.) Look for Resistance; I'm the one with the cast (last year's bot).

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Posted by Jessica Boucher at 02/21/2001 8:36 PM EST


Student on team #237, Sie-H2O-Bots, from Watertown High School and Eastern Awning Systems & The Siemon Company.


In Reply to: Re: The squirreliest bot (it has different turning radii)
Posted by Em Youngberg on 02/21/2001 6:53 PM EST:



Youre putting two "http://"s in your web address, which makes it not work, just thought you'd like to know.

Btw, it's really nice to see so many people from 86 posting on CD lately!

-Jessica B, #237

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Posted by Em Youngberg at 02/22/2001 8:43 PM EST


Student on team #86, Resistance, from Stanton College Prep and Vistakon/JEA.


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Posted by Jessica Boucher on 02/21/2001 8:36 PM EST:



Thanks, but I don't know how to fix it. I do mechcanical work, not programming. Katie! Fix it!
Em

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Posted by Katie Storch at 02/22/2001 9:31 PM EST


Student on team #86, Resistance, from Stanton College Prep and Vistakon.


In Reply to: Re: Random Commentage....
Posted by Em Youngberg on 02/22/2001 8:43 PM EST:



Hey Em.. go into the change info section and where the input box for url is.. delete the "http://" part of the address. Then you're free! Like... www.geocoties.com/resistance86/updates/

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Posted by Em Youngberg at 02/22/2001 9:48 PM EST


Student on team #86, Resistance, from Stanton College Prep and Vistakon/JEA.


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Posted by Katie Storch on 02/22/2001 9:31 PM EST:



Not to be an idiot, Katie, but where's that? That's
why I couldn't do it- couldn't find it.

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Posted by Katie Storch at 02/22/2001 10:02 PM EST


Student on team #86, Resistance, from Stanton College Prep and Vistakon.


In Reply to: Re: Random Commentage....
Posted by Em Youngberg on 02/22/2001 9:48 PM EST:



i email-ed it to you! the change info option under 'password'. ^_^