Mentor: OK, guys, here’s the robot.
Student: Is it programmed?
Mentor: Uh…yes.
Student: Let’s see automode…dangit, Mars Rock! Driver control…Hey, we can’t control it! E-stop, quick!..Noooooo!
Mentor: Uh-oh…
Mentor’s wife: Hey, honey, have you seen our child?
Mentor: …
Student: Um–does that look like him? points to kid on field
You know, that bar looks a lot like the top of my crib. It’s easier to pull myself up if I wet my fingers like this. Maybe before each match, someone should go out and lick the robot’s grabber.
<npoe> How about a 4-years-later update? What’s the kid look like now? Just about ready for JFLL? </npoe>
<not part of entry>It’s been awile</not part of entry>
Here is one of the original testers of the FIRST Baby Robotics League (FBRL).
Despite the FBRL’s good intentions, the whole idea was scrapped when various items in the KOP were discovered to contain critical levels of lead, which lead to recalls of the entire KOP.
Although the FBRL no longer exists, you can rest assured that the FTC and FRC KOPs will never agian contain items made in China.
Here we see the GDC revealing the newest game piece. FIRST is now incorporating child development lessons into its challenges. Points are scored each time the baby giggles and penalties are incurred for crying. Bonus points for changing a diaper in autonomous.
Dang, team giveaways at these regionals get weirder every year. What the heck am I supposed to do with this thing? Hmmm, maybe it would make a good pincushion for all my team buttons…
