I don’t know how many of you in Indiana know this but Dean Kamen recently made an appearence at a high school in the central Indiana area. He visited rookie Team 868 Delphi Automotive & Carmel High School Carmel , IN just last week. He was at the Delphi plant in Anderson (i think:confused: ) working on something with the segway because Delphi has some parts in it.
All you guys from Indy, do you realize how close we were to being able to meet Dean? Oh well, it’s nice to see that Dean is taking the time to visit FIRST schools.
David who is REALLY disappointed that Dean didn’t come to see his team:( .
A bunch of kids on my team were pleasantly surprised this weekend with a Dean-spotting a local mall while they were Christmas shopping, he was scooting around the mall on his Segway attracting quite a crowd I guess… wish I had gone shopping 3 hours earlier that day
Wow…he was really close to us…i wonder why he didnt come to Kokomo… like clark said, our executive sponsor from delphi helped with the circuitboards from Segway…
Dean and some of his other engineers had been in Kokomo a year or so ago to check out our gyro devices. I think another supplier was used, but I heard that support for FIRST teams helped get Delphi Kokomo the chance to make the sales pitch for the gyros.
Dean has come to Kokomo a few times… all on Segway/IBOT business.
He has been working with Delphi engineers for about 2 years on the Segway electronics that Delphi is providing. We’ve tried to get him to stay long enough for a visit with the TechnoKats, but it has never worked out. (Don’t worry, DJ, I’ve not met him in Kokomo either).
Delphi is providing both the instrument cluster (stuff on the handle bar) and the main electronics board, which is positioned underneath the platform. Both of these products are being made at the Delphi-D plant in Flint, Michigan.
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