What? No chicken plucker??? I’m still hoping to at least see a “chicken-spitter.”
Is this another collaboration? 217 and 25? :yikes:
What?
Sorry, but that was totally uncalled for. I’m going to post up all the “fake” robot pictures I want too. You’re taking a joking comment and making it into something significant.
It is fun, Paul.
You guys haven’t put yourselves on a pedestal but others have put you there, it appears. Just keep having fun, humor will return for many after ship day. Well, there’s a good chance of it, anyway.
So what Paul?
Are we finally going to meet up at CMP?
Your shell lei and chocolates have been sitting with me for you for 2 years and counting…
I’ll try and replace the chocolate part.
Paul,
You just have to get used to all the buzzkills around here. Some people just need to have something to complain about. Having fun would just cut into their complaining time.
Lolz.
Its a valid point about double standards, but its wrong to put out 217 on the spot when they don’t do it to themselves. If people want to desperately voice their complaints, then make a ridiculous new thread or add to an existing related thread. Don’t put teams out on the spot.
For example: “Those teams 816 and 1323 needs to stop posting pictures of their robots, nobody cares about them. I wanted to know how the frames were put together and they said ‘magic’ so I don’t like them anymore.”
Reminder, I’m a friend of both teams
20 balls in 2 seconds is ridiculous. Awesome.
Hey Paul,
Great looking robot, Congratulations! I’m glad everything turned out alright with your designs, Good Luck this year! :yikes:
Your so awesome Akash, we so have to get some dinner at Nationals.
I for one am suitably impressed. This looks like the sort of simple and effective design I’ve come to associate with the Thunderchickens, and I’m willing to bet they will do quite well. Good luck, and hopefully we’ll get the chance to work together again this year.
Paul, you may have fooled some of them, but I have proof this is fake. To quote you from another thread:
That would imply that this picture, being of the robot, is assembled, wired, and all but finished. BUT, the ship date is more than 24 hours away, THEREFORE 217 cannot possibly be finished, THEREFORE this must be a hoax.
BOOM! How’s that for impenetrable logic?
this is my favorite teaser thus far
Wow. If this 217’s real robot I am a bit disappointed… But at the same time I’m excited to see how they put the design into use on the field.
If it’s not the real robot then this is by far the funnest teaser thread that I can remember.
Lol, way to randomly talk about us in a Thunder Chickens thread…
Why? It’s not the most complex robot in the world, but it probably works really well. 217 had a traction control system running just 4 days after kickoff, so they probably have that perfected and a lot of drive time. The CIM-powered pickup is probably really fast and efficient. I don’t know how accurate the dump is, but it’s unlikely to jam. I predict they’ll be driving (often literal) circles around their opponents collecting tons of balls really fast, and then use their tcs to quickly pin someone for a dump and go back to collecting.
I wasn’t making any attacks at the bot. I was just saying that we’ve come to expect great things from the Thunder Chickens. I guess I expected that they would’ve come up with some other genius way of manipulating game pieces (2008’s grabber, 2007’s 8(?) linkage arm, or 06’s turrenting shooter of awesome). I’m actually a bit more excited about this bot than most because it’s so simple and because I know 217 would never put a bot on the field that wasn’t capable of laying a smack down on their opponents… I just want to see how they do it…
Paul
Always a great please to see your robots. Thank you for the picture. Marie
Guys, let’s hope that’s their real robot, ok? 20 balls in 2.5 seconds is crazy enough without all the fantastic extras they may have!
Very nice bot. I am looking forward to seeing it in competition.
About that… 20 balls in 2.5 seconds is nice and all… but I still can’t see where this robot is going to hold 20 balls :rolleyes:… more magic?