Pictures

When working in the wee hours of the morning, late night pizza delivery is priceless.

Alternative means of sustenance may be available, particularly if you have a teammate willing to make breakfast.

We spent an obscene amount of time in lab. The staff saved us sooo many times, most notably
when Yonah revived our truly dead handy board, when Jan built a new IR beacon for us on contest day,
when Mouser clued us into using three motors per wheel, ... yeah, the list goes on and on.

We had one of the first working prototypes of the class; Mouser said we should get a prize. :-P
Here are some pictures of my mama, version 1, on the 11th:

In Week 2 we conceived of a new version of my mama.
The main design "improvement" was going from two to one servo-controlled wheels.
Unfortunately, this model's movements were nowhere near as consistent as its predecessor.
For this and a few other reasons, we ended up scraping it and starting from scratch.

If you use Internet Explorer, you can watch the building of our final model in the 24 hours before Round I:
(yeah, what were we thinking!@$!@#$!)

© 2002 My Mama also © 2002 Ryan Damico and Pei-Hsin Lin