26-02-2003 18:41

Stephen Kowski

Care to give a little description along with this lovely pic?

26-02-2003 18:53

oneyd

It is a lime green robot with four wheels. is that little enough of a description for you

26-02-2003 19:52

Kyle

OFFICAL MESSAGE FROM MOE

We will not be releasing any info about GeroniMOE. Your questions will be answered at the Chesapeake regional March 13-15.


Good luck to all teams

26-02-2003 19:55

dddriveman

Design

Love the design very well thought out. You have my support good luck to you

26-02-2003 19:59

kristen

<-- muwhaha, I'm going to be at the Chesapeake regional D

Anyways, your robot look really great! ... and green Can't wait to see you guys

26-02-2003 20:31

RogerR

oh, come on, just a hint?
Beeeeuuuuuuuutiful robot anyways.

26-02-2003 20:39

Dan-o

Guess session

I figured that a little guess session might be alright, however, I cannot gaurantee that I will tell you even if you're right.

26-02-2003 20:42

team222badbrad

I've got a pic I can release to the rest of CD if no information is given LOL

Just kidding I wont release it....

Your robot is cool I can't wait to see it in action

Bad Brad

26-02-2003 20:49

Chris

It looks to me like its desgined to knock down all the boxes on top of the ramp, while "Stealing" the stack that starts in the center. And protecting that stack for the rest of the match. Am i close?

Chris
Friendly Neighborhood Strategy Head
229 Division By Zero/Clarkson University

26-02-2003 20:53

Solace

how can that be? It looks to me like the pushing side is opposite the grabbing side.

26-02-2003 21:16

Rob Colatutto

how well can those wings stand up to any collision with another robot? and it would make sense if they pushed them the opposite way it looks, you don't want to be impailing any bins

26-02-2003 21:36

f22flyboy

why won't you be attending the VCU regional this year?

26-02-2003 22:00

Joe3

As for why we won't be attending VCU, it was just simply too far away. This year we decided to attend the Chesapeake Regional, since is is about 2-4 hours closer to home. That was quite simply the only reason. Last year, we did have a great time at VCU, and it was a great venue, and the competition was fierce. However, it was just too far away.

26-02-2003 22:00

SuperJake

We chose to attend the Chesapeake Bay regional instead of the VCU Regional this year. Chesapeake is a little closer for us than VCU.

You will be able to see GeroniMOE compete at the Chesapeake Regional, the Philadelphia Alliance Regional, and the National Championship Competition.

26-02-2003 22:02

SuperJake

And that's what happens when you have the 4th highest number of people registered for the same forums! Not the time for Joe3's post and mine! That just proves that we all think alike!

26-02-2003 22:22

pauluffel

Nice bot (I can"t wait til my team gets some experience so we can build robots that look like they were designed with an idea as pretty as that in mind). As to the robot, it looks like it can do about 50 things (not including the secret functions (like taking over the world)) so I have no hope of guessing. What I am interested in knowing is why those boxes in the background are green!? As proven on this page, the only advertised colors of the Sterilite 1730 boxes are Glacier and Desert. How do you get boxes that are your team color?

26-02-2003 22:30

SuperJake

The boxes we have are the Sterilite 1730 boxes, and they are Glacier in color. The funny thing with Sublime Green is that whenever you take a picture of our robot, there is so much Green that the camera doesn't pick up other pictures as well as it usually does. Either that or the way your eye picks up the Glacier color verses the Sublime Green makes them look lighter. The only other explanation could be that your monitor is going MOE. We got most of the monitor manufacturers in the world to make the monitors start to go green when they go bad. Just our way of doing some "community outreach". (You can cut the sarcasm with a knife -- can you feel it!?)

Anywho, the entire purpose of all of that is that the bins we have are Glacier in color, and it is an optical illusion that causes them to look green.

27-02-2003 00:00

Mike Schroeder

so when this thing jumps out of an airplane, what does it say.....

27-02-2003 03:01

purplehaze357

the chesapeake regional this year is going to be a great time.

Seeing "GeroniMOE " stack 11 boxes is going to be interesting and going to a brand ne regional on a Naval Base will be cool too...

Good Luck, See-ya there....

27-02-2003 06:27

Iain

Geronistan! Duh.

27-02-2003 11:53

Jim Meyer

Good to see another machine that looks like it doesn't limbo.

DEATH TO THE RAMP BLOCKERS!

Just kidding. Looks like 4 wheel drive with both the Chips and Drills doubled up?

Good luck!

27-02-2003 12:07

Duke 13370

You seem to have a high center of gravity, and much of it placed over your back axle, have you tested that on the ramp? Our bot has a semi-similar setup and we have to worry about falling backwards going up the ramp the wrong way.

27-02-2003 19:01

team222badbrad

I see that you blocked http://www.moe365.org/gfx/

HEHEHE I Still have the pic saved to my desktop!

27-02-2003 22:06

Bill Moore

Originally posted by pauluffel
What I am interested in knowing is why those boxes in the background are green!? As proven on this page, the only advertised colors of the Sterilite 1730 boxes are Glacier and Desert. How do you get boxes that are your team color?

Can't you recognize a Photoshop fake yet?

Actually, Sterilite makes the bins in many additional colors during the holiday season. You just needed to buy them earlier. We seriously were looking for MOE green, but had to settle for Evergreen. Luckily, WalMart had enough for a complete set of green.

27-02-2003 23:27

The Lucas

Testing

Shipping a robot without testing it, now that is something the Miracle Workerz would never do. That would mean we would have to fix all the bugs in the pit like last year... wait I mean like I saw other teams do last year, our bot was flawless (ya thats the ticket).

Center of Gravity was a major concern from Day One. That is how GeroniMOE got the working name "Tippy the Wonder MOEbot". However, we designed the bot with an impressively low cg and it hasn't been a problem. GeroniMOE has preformed some pretty crazy maneuvers (mostly during autonomous testing) without tipping over.

28-02-2003 07:00

John Larock

Brad is Bad

Brad........you are bad.

28-02-2003 16:38

team222badbrad

LOL Thats really funny!

You cant really see anything from the picture I found anyway!

I was just wanted to see if I could get some information out of someone on your team!

BAD BRAD