Now, I’m off to Chesapeake this week, so just on the off chance I can get internet access before I come back to Columbia, I’m moving the deadline up to the announcement of the Regional Chairman’s Award at the Chesapeake Regional, which I estimate should happen around 4:00 or 5:00 PM Eastern this Saturday. As always, entries are accepted until I open the thread to judge it.
I must remember Yoda’s words now and pick up as many tubes as I can, put them on the rack, and then 2 bots above 12 in, then the red alliance shall be defeated.
The Learn’ed One: “You must always concentrate on the task ahead. You must be prepared for any outcome and every possibility. Once you have learned this, you too can wear the Warning for caution of a dangerous mind.”
Student: “But… Why do you wear a bib, O’ Learn’ed One?”
The Learn’ed One: “As I said, ‘You must be prepared for any outcome and every possibility.’ You never know when you are in for a free lobster dinner.”
Student: “…”
The Learn’ed One: “I can see you do not yet fully understand the meaning of infinity. Now, back to your studies.”
All the stress of the competition finally got to him, but as his unconscious body fell to the floor, his inner zen took over, causing him to land in a state of perfect peace.
His mommy told him he could do anything if he believed in himself. Unfortunately, he spent the whole match believing instead of actually controlling the robot.
Arm driver: “He just started saying something over and over again…I don’t know what’s wrong. He won’t listen to me, and I can’t understand what he’s saying.”
Programmer: “Hmm…let me listen”
Main driver, the one on the floor, as the pan-tilt servos on the opposing alliance’s camera twitch: “Tracking…tracking…tracking…tracking…pan110tilt32confidence89blobsize20…”
Programmer: “Whoa…dude, you can be my debugger any day!”
Here we see a student taking a break during a lull in the competition.
He decided to meditate on how better to win the matches.
Unfortunately he fell asleep and missed the rest of the matches.
Try as he might, he just could not get his robot to levitate twelve inches.
Which is surprising; he’s levitated other objects before. He is often levitates birds, but nobody seems to notice.
This team’s robot is so good, they don’t even need a human player. While others are at their peak stress level, this one relaxes (“out with the bad, in with the good”).
Announcer “and the blue alliance has done it again, all three robots 12 inches off the floor for a bonus of 90 points. wow folks I never thought I’d see the force used in a FIRST event but the blue allaince captian is apparently a master jedi!!”
