What's in the BOX?

[Mark Jones]

This was in the agenda for the remote kick-off I'm attending. What do you think are in those 12" cubes?

12:00 –1:00 Pick up kits (Engineering Machine Shop – directions will be given at the meeting. Note that kit pick-up requires the signature of your team leader or delegate and that your team must have specified for your kit be delivered at the kickoff meeting. Kits will include two fiberglass totes approximately 15” x 24” x 14” high, one box 5”x5”x38”, and one 12” cube. Rookies and second year teams will get a second 12” cube. Please save room in your transportation vehicle to take all of this home with you!

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally Posted by Mark Jones

This was in the agenda for the remote kick-off I'm attending. What do you think are in those 12" cubes?

12:00 –1:00 Pick up kits (Engineering Machine Shop – directions will be given at the meeting. Note that kit pick-up requires the signature of your team leader or delegate and that your team must have specified for your kit be delivered at the kickoff meeting. Kits will include two fiberglass totes approximately 15” x 24” x 14” high, one box 5”x5”x38”, and one 12” cube. Rookies and second year teams will get a second 12” cube. Please save room in your transportation vehicle to take all of this home with you!

Game piece? New battery? The electronics box that I'm building?

[Mark Jones]

I'm thinking game piece. They described the others as totes or box, but this as a "cube"???? But, why would rookie or second year teams get two?

[Wetzel]

Obviously it is a compressor.

Wetzel

[dez250]

the cube will most likely contain the 2 batteries we will have, and the 2nd cube for rookies and 2nd year teams will contain the joysticks. The demensions sound about right for the boxes those two items have come in recently. But fiberglass totes, either that was a big spill of beans and we will have that as a scoring object or they changed the kit boxes (which i know are still the red and green crates as always) or they just dont know what the kit boxes are made of...
~Mike

/edit/: I just looked againa nd it says a cubic foot cube, which i was just rethinking about and thats not the size of either the battery or flight sticks box, so my guess is as good as yours...

[sanddrag]

Each battery is 7.13 x 2.99 x 6.54. Perhaps with packing foam?

[Rob Colatutto]

Originally Posted by dez250

But fiberglass totes, either that was a big spill of beans and we will have that as a scoring object or they changed the kit boxes (which i know are still the red and green crates as always) or they just dont know what the kit boxes are made of...
~Mike

Those are the two kit boxes we get that they are referring to. Last years were different Blue and Red boxes, I'd think we are getting those again.

As for the other 5x5x38 box, guess we are getting another premade drive base...

[sonicimpulse99]

If the cubes are supposed to be a game piece, it seems it would be much easier to stack/handle/pick up cubes than those bins from last year. We've all believed FIRST won't always use balls as game pieces, last year proved that. But since they might have gone too far with those bins last year, a cube seems to me like it would be the most logical next step up from balls.

Now this being said, this year's game will probably have nothing to do with cubes. Just toying with an idea.

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by sonicimpulse99

We've all believed FIRST won't always use balls as game pieces, last year proved that.

So did the floppies from 1999. And the innertubes from..96, I think.

I seem to recall getting two batterys in a cubic box inside one of the totes in years past. Perhaps they have added so much cool stuff to the kit, that extra boxes are needed.

Wetzel

[Rickertsen2]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Each battery is 7.13 x 2.99 x 6.54. Perhaps with packing foam?

If I remember correctly, with packing foam, the battery box looked like a 12" cube.

[sanddrag]

I just remembered I have two batteries right here with me. I held a ruler all around them. The 12" cube seems possible for the two batteries and packing but a slight bit large, too large. I think it is for something else.

[shyra1353]

ok .. i have no idea what might be in the box .. but my question is this .. do only the teams who are attending the remote kickoff that you are get these boxes ?? if it is then the contents have to be something that is not crucial to all teams ...

[SarahB]

Originally Posted by shyra1353

ok .. i have no idea what might be in the box .. but my question is this .. do only the teams who are attending the remote kickoff that you are get these boxes ?? if it is then the contents have to be something that is not crucial to all teams ...

I'm sure all the teams attending any remote kickoff or the actual kickoff will get that box, along with the rest of the kit in the other boxes.

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by Mark Jones

Kits will include two fiberglass totes approximately 15” x 24” x 14” high, one box 5”x5”x38”, and one 12” cube. Rookies and second year teams will get a second 12” cube.

...trying to remember which box holds the inflatable clowns...


-dave


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12 days to go!!!

[IMDWalrus]

Originally Posted by dlavery

...trying to remember which box holds the inflatable clowns...

If it turns out the clowns actually ARE this year's game, I don't know whether I'm going to begin laughing or pass out from shock.

Maybe it's just me, but the clown game seems to have become a bit of a joke around here. If FIRST actually used that idea, though, this could be a very interesting game indeed...

[edit]Just in case anyone reading this doesn't know about the clowns...

Originally Posted by Wayne C.

Team 25's game "Send in the Clowns" uses inflatable punching clowns, a car, a jail, bicycle pumps and a need for pressure sensors, pneumatics and finesse. If FIRST uses it it will be both miraculous and outrageous.

Personally, I'm worried for my sanity if that's going to be this year's game...