competition day

c&e went to the seeding competition this morning while i sat around at work and did...nothing. but i did get paid to do nothing. apparently, a motor port on the happyboard (#4) did not work so c&e tried to run the gear train using only 2 motors (instead of the usual 4). that meant that the robot basically did not move, so we didn't do very well. BUT it didn't really matter because we got seeded anyway because everyone gets seeded. :D

c&e then went to greg to fix the problem, and he gave us happyboard #5. 5 happyboards!!! we were only supposed to have 1 for the entire month!

competition started at 6pm in 26-100, and jeremy, cindy, emily, and i trekked down there in our "way awesome" matching 6.270 tshirts. who designs these shirts anyway? we had an awesome group of people who came out to cheer for us -- meagan, jen chu, alex, ben, josh, jen fu from church, doris, keith, liver, jason, marcus, john from smite/hockey, and laura and karina from mccormick 3w. YAY FRIENDLY FRIENDS! :D

unfortunately, our robot had stage fright during the competition, and the happyboard panicked both times. here is video of one of our runs... :o(

so we didn't make it very far in the competition. we tested the robot at the end to prove to ourselves that the robot actually worked, and it worked like a charm. it even scored in our 1 point and 2 point bins!

to drown in our sorrows (or to feed our appetites as this competition ended at 9:30pm) cindy, emily, jeremy, ben, meagan and i went out to sunset cantina for dinner. but even the nachos didn't console us for gene simmons choking. cindy says that we should've called the robot tony romo....and unfortunately, i don't have much of an argument against that anymore. :(