taiwan cafe! :D

no videos from the rest of the day in lab -- my camera died. :(

BUT the robot finally started launching the balls into the scoring bins. some of the guys on team 08 saw what we were doing, and i *think* they attached a green board to the back of their robot to cover up the scoring bin because of us. apparently some of the teams think that our wack-o strategy is intimidating.

the robot went under some liposuction today, aka we shrank the butt (battery and happyboard portion) so that the robot would be more in balance. emily got a little annoyed at cindy and me because she wanted to test it rather than rebuild, so we speed-built and got it done in about 45 min.

we also went through 3 happyboards today. the go button on the first happyboard stopped working properly, so we couldn't calibrate the robot very quickly (we only have 60 seconds to do it). we asked michael about the problem, and he gave us a second board. unfortunately, that board kept restarting randomly in the middle of our run, so we talked to greg and he gave us a third. we didn't get to properly test it because we had to impound the robot, but hopefully this 3rd board will work.

cindy and i got our pictures taken by this woman who had a big fancy schmancy camera. we're kind of curious as to where our picture will turn up...

after we impounded our robot, we took a trip out to taiwan cafe for dinner!!! this trip had been planned for the last 3 weeks, and the food tasted especially good since we hadn't eaten since 6am (d) and 9:30am (e&c). yay for dirt-cheap taiwanese food! :D