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Hitting the I5. Ed's dad lent us his Ford Aerostar, which made the trip much more pleasant than last year. Also the 5 hours shorter drive and the extra driver made it a lot easier in the end. We managed to leave our house in Burnaby at 6:00pm on the nose.
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17 hours later, we made it over the Bay Bridge. Gillian got to drive on what might be the widest highway in North America. In BC, 3 lanes is as big as it gets, and at the toll booths for the bridge, the highway must have 20 lanes.. crazy stuff.
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The much feared Blendo doing some testing outside the Fort Mason building. The robot testing area was dagerously close to the water, but luckily no one lost their machine to the bay.
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Bill Nye (the science guy) did pit interviews all Friday. I didn't get to talk to him, but a lot of other people did. I couldn't hear what he was talking about, but I look forward to seeing what was going on this fall.
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Grant's robot Deadblow, one of the robots I fought and beat last year... Grant brough a new and very much improved version of this robot to the event this year.
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Steve and Gill hanging out in the pits. We took a bunch of video, and I hope to encode some of it and get it up on the website.
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Team Tazbot's new super-heavy robot Diesector. The hammers on either side appeared to be electric motor powered, and they made a lot of noise on the arena floor.
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All the way from the United Kingdom, Sucidal Tendencies. Nicely built tracked heavy weight.
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A really nice picture of Deadblow again. The top was all CNC'd aluminum. Looking good!
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After taking a look at the new and "improved" Battlebox, I decided that I could not afford to forgo armouring the underside of Pressure Drop. So on went some 1/8" UHMW panels. Just enough to help the robot not incur any major underbelly damage.
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A gratuitous picture of my robot Pressure Drop that I took during it's photo session.
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...and another...
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...and one more.
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