24-02-2003 17:49

Willum

d00d... is that... a printed circuit board on the outside of your bot?

I love it...

</drooling rant>

nicely done, cool bot.

24-02-2003 19:34

RoboCoder

PCB? you bet!

Yep, that sure is printed circuit board you see. We're team 1002 (the Circuit Runners, oh yeah) and altough we're a rookie team, we hope to be pretty competitive this year. (I'd say it turned out pretty darn well for a rookie year ). Anyways, I'm the lead programmer, but I still know all about the robot so let me know if you have any questions

24-02-2003 20:26

Willum

Yeah... it looks like you guys are a stack protector, do you have plans to hunt out your own stack at the start of a match? Sensor or dead reck ability?

24-02-2003 22:46

RoboCoder

Stack protecting is one of many abilities of our robot, we went for a versitile one anyways, as far as autonomous mode goes, lets just say that we arent limiting ourselves to one strategy nor one method of carrying out that strategy. We hope to remain flexible in our competitions

24-02-2003 22:58

Willum

it seems versatility is the way to go. i think our 11 auton_mode progs will demonstrate that when the time comes.
so says 871's co-head programmer.

25-02-2003 11:43

Gope

Clean up your wiring, wouldn't want your robot to be usless because a a stray wire got caught and ripped.

25-02-2003 12:10

Real Deal

The pic was taken before the robot was complete - Notice the circuit board on the sides, but not the back. It's still not perfect, but it's something we'll have to work on first thing at regionals. We think we'e running pretty close to weight right now, so we were saving finishing touches until we got an "official" weight.

25-02-2003 13:57

Dan Richardson

impressive for a rookie bot good job guys