pic: Team 45 and their robot.

[Jessica Stidham]

Originally Posted by afi419

Is your robot inside that yellow thing?

haha, yea its in there. It looks a lot better without the yellow though.

[Qbranch]

Andy were you at Muncie and I missed you? I kept thinking when i was driving... "Don't hit andy... don't hit andy... bad luck if your own transmissions run in to their creator..."

You're guys robot is SO awesome! Love the concept!

I remember we were watching your gripper-go-round (as our team dubbed it) and had trouble concentrating on what we were doing. (Not that that would be a strategy... )

-q

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by Qbranch

gripper-go-round

We've been trying to think of a name for that move... "gripper-go-round" may be the best so far. "Overhead Trackball bowling" is another one I've heard.

I'm sure that there will be some names next week in St. Louis.

AB

[Chris_Elston]

Originally Posted by Qbranch

"Don't hit andy... don't hit andy... bad luck if your own transmissions run in to their creator..."
-q

Apparently, you didn't see when 1501

DID RUN OVER Andy...one of our new "rookie" drivers...thanks for stopping our bot.

Sorry about that Andy.... ;-)

[Jim E]

It reminds me of Mission Mayhem at the Fort Lauderdale, FL Science Museum in 2005. I had to do something similar to get the robot back to Jupiter, FL. Hurricane Dean was off the Tampa coast.

[Schnabel]

OK, so I was asked to explain what "Ham Tray" means. To make a VERY long story short, when Andy was in college, the term was used at meetings to prevent people from going into tangents and/or over explaining something. When this would happen, a person would raise their had, say "hamtray" and then the meeting would continue with what was next. So this year, Andy noticed that we would go into many different tangents with pointless discussions, so he introduced "hamtray" to us. Fast forward to the last meeting before ship, and we were deciding on what to call the robot. Someone began to go off on a tangent, so I called a "hamtray" to make the very long meeting hurry up. From that point, we decided to add it to the potential names on the board, and it ended up winning. So in other words, it is an inside joke.

P.S. As a team decision, you will have to wait for a while until some real specs and pics are posted. For some, this will come at St. Louis. For everyone else, it will be just a little bit after that. For now, treat this picture as a game hint! : )

[Sean Schuff]

Come to think of it, their robot reminds me of their team trailer at IRI a year or two ago!! Is that where the saran wrap came from? And would it be a legal defensive maneuver to saran wrap your opponents together on the field??

Hmmmm...

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by Schnabel

P.S. As a team decision, you will have to wait for a while until some real specs and pics are posted. For some, this will come at St. Louis. For everyone else, it will be just a little bit after that. For now, treat this picture as a game hint! : )

OK so how much you payin' to keep the picks I have off of the net?

[Schnabel]

Originally Posted by IndySam

OK so how much you payin' to keep the picks I have off of the net?

I have a pocket full of Gracious Professionalism! How about you?