This was the first and last year that the GDC had the human player starting position located on the field side of the driver station. The game is called “Odd Man Out”
Coach: “Is there a green light now? How about now? Now?”
Scorekeeper: “What is this green light he keeps talking about?”
Coach: “Just wait until 2009.”
“If you liked that (giggle) watch when I press this button! The box opens up to show the full blown sound system playing “We are the Champions” and lasers shoot out and we even have one of those colored disco light balls. Yeah, it eats batteries but it looks really cool!”
And this is the reason I started doing robot inspection.
Although it looked cool, nobody was willing to ride the prototype 3-wheeled Segway.
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I didn’t realize until this past month that the Segway wasn’t relased to the public until 2001. Kinda crazy that Mr. Kamen is always* introduced as “the inventor of the Segway” when FIRST is a decade older. I wonder how he was introduced pre-2001.
*the i.am.FIRST special did a great job of highlighting his other achievements.
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The coach was so proud of his team for getting the robot finished a week ahead of time. Then he came onto the field, saw that everyone else’s robot was built to pick up tubes instead of balls and realized with fear and embarrassment that they had used the 2001 manual instead of the 2011 manual.
Announcer: “And now the new game show you have all been waiting for, Robot Candid Camera. Here we see an unsuspecting mentor enter the arena. Now watch what happens next…”
