pic: SPAM's 2006 robot

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You will all notice a few changes this year. For example, our robot will be more colorful. I miss the old metal look, but we used that blue and red material. Also, while using the same design for the drive train and chassis as last year, this robot works better in third gear, which we avoided last year. WATCH OUT!

It does climb the ramp without falling over.

Everyone does look unhappy there. They were not paying attention to the process of shooting balls as much as trying to get other things to work. So they were not unhappy about how it shoots balls, but more about other things, like the conveyor system. Balls were jamming at the bend on some occassions. We found a way to unjam it, by reversing one conveyor.


Tiff, I am sorry about the mess in the pit. We did clean up a little though. Someone finally took the trash out and vacuumed. We even started a cleaning campaign to stop work and have everyone go around cleaning for five minutes. The place was almost spotless after that.