Team 71's 2002 robot

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by JesseK

Is that 45 shooting the ball straight up to themselves at the top of the hopper ?? To think, that was only 7 years ago and you'd be hard pressed to find a team that did that this year.

Yeah, that was us. I think that was the lightest conveyor ever... made of nothing!

This was a typical Mark Koors invention. During brainstorming, he said "let's just throw the balls up into the basket with a wheel". The students and other mentors (me included) just said... "yeah, right". After many weeks of tweaking, this ball thrower was very efficient.

I have the dubious honor of being the coach in this match AND the dreadful F-3 match at Boilermaker this year. Maybe I should remind our alliance before each final-finals match "hey... let's try not to score on ourselves."

Andy B.