Our project

Our project is going as planned.  We wrote the intro script already, and all we have to do is memorize it and be prepared for any questions the judges have for us!

Turning to something else, we have found the definition of bionics!  (I know it's the week before the tournament, but bionics seems easy to define.)  Here is what dictionary.com has to say about bionics:


bionics
–noun ( used with a singular verb )
the study of how humans and animals perform certain tasks and solve certain problems, and of the application of the findings to the design of electronic devices and mechanical parts.

(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bionics)

It can also refer to these electronic devices and mechanical parts.

Turning to our robot, we are trying to tweak some things to increase each program's success rate.  We have relatively high success rate for all of them, but we are NOT PERFECT.  We can't be, though.  Well, I guess we could, but the chances are, in effect, zero.  (What are the chances of picking a random number out of all that exist {real, imaginary, positive, negative, rational, irrational, complex, etc.} and getting 3.1415926535897932384626..., which is pi, for those of you who haven't memorized it?  The chances are zero, but it's still possible.)

This is a post from Alpha Rex.

The wires on the NXT are like telephone jacks, with one difference: the snap-connector on top is to the side to prevent kids from plugging their NXTs into the telephone service.

Briiiiiiiinnnnnnnng!  Briiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnng.

Person: Hello?
NXT: Hello.
Person: Who is this?
NXT: Alpha Rex.
Person:AAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!  ALIEN ROBOTS ARE INVADING!!!!!!!!!!!!
NXT: Resistance is futile.