Woodie Flowers as a Grad Student [Video]

FIRST General Forum
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http://2007videos.techtv.mit.edu/file/86/

A bit of background: 2.007, formerly 2.70, is the course number of “Design and Manufacturing I” at MIT. Woodie was involved with it since 1970. The rest, as they say, is history.

You may see some similarities to FIRST. And a WF award in the background.

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That’s amazing. All those lucky enough to have taken the course have experienced one thing, but thanks to Woodie and company, all of us here must at least feel some form of other luck at being able to experience what could be as close to that as possible during a regular, plain old everyday FIRST season :slight_smile:

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Makes me even more jealous of those good enought to get into MIT. That was an awesome documentary, thanks for posting it.

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Hmmm… what does that remind me of…

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Nice video, interesting how similar that is to FIRST. If nothing else, it motivates me to get off of Chief Delphi and do homework so I can get into college :wink:

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Side Question: Does anyone know where I could find some videos of the 2.70 MIT Competition?

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Not sure about videos from back when it was 2.70, but since the days of the course # change to 2.007:

http://pergatory.mit.edu/2.007/
http://pergatory.mit.edu/2.007/misc/videos.html
http://pergatory.mit.edu/2.007/contests/history/history.html

my own vids: http://web.mit.edu/scolton/www/2dot007.html#media

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Did anyone else notice the Woodie Flowers award behind Dr. Flowers?

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What kind of tamiya gearboxes were they shane? I’ve seen various models for antweight battlebots but they all look the same.

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These are the Tamiya plastic planetary sets (72001). (Not the nice new metal ones.) The funny story is that for the longest time nobody knew what motor these actually came with. (Tamiya’s website had conflicting specifications and none of the torque curves we had made any sense.) We finally figured out that they are baby Mabuchi RC-260 motors. Last year they would get incredibly hot. Turns out the inductance was so low and PWM period so large that they were seeing 8+A spikes near stall (pulsed off a 14.4V drill battery to a motor rated to 6V). That’s since been fixed…