2010 Boston Regional

[HighClimber1768]

I would like to thank teams 88 and 1922 for having faith in us and choosing us for your alliance! It was a privilege to play defense on an alliance with two such awesome teams and robots!

Al Fordiani
Technical Mentor and Advisor
The Robo-Chiefs, Team 1768

[ADZDEBLICK]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

Very cool! I was hoping someone would make this kind of bot this year. Reminds me of a R/C car toy I had back in the 90's that I can't seem to remember the name of. Hey all of you 'raised by Nickelodeon' kids, can you help me out? It had two big wheels and would flip over when you changed directions really fast. One side was blue and the other was orange.

Tyco Rebound

[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by ADZDEBLICK

Tyco Rebound

Kenner (Now part of Hasbro) also made the Ricochet around the same time.

[BrendanB]

Second year in a row I forgot to take off of work! Then again, Friday is looking good...

[Roger]

Be there? I'm already here! (I work across the street . ) But 1153 will be "travelling" to Boston! It's kind of strange being away but still near my office...

BTW, you can thank the company I'm with for building *THREE* new restaurants in the area: Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers (you can practically fall out the door and into it), and Panera Bread and Upper Crust Pizza (down the block and a bit).

[Rambots]

Yeah our original idea was to copy Ricochet or Tyco rebound type of set-up.
So we could flip over and drive on both sides.

The problem was that in order to be symmetrical the wheels would have to be huge. So we decided to still go for it but use the kit of parts set up x 2.

I'm sure it would have been a lot easier to go with one side - but we challenged ourselves to see if we could make it happen.

If everything (or even most things) work as designed - Al should be dangerous.

Symmetric AL (the Shark Hunter)

[WhiteShadow1474]

1474 will be there
Can't wait to see everyone.

[smurfgirl]

Just two more days! I'm starting to get very excited.