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RE: What were you doing a year ago?
February 25, 2010 at 8:55 am
Ahhhh battle-bots.
Reminds me of the time a friend and I used to buy the cheapy RC boats from the department store and design/fix weapons to them, toss them into the pool and try to sink/disable the other.
We would do this once a week and gathered a little crowd of folks (maybe 10-15 people) who would come to spectate. A couple/few fellas went out and brought a boat of their own and joined the fray.
After a few nasty explosions (our only 'rule' was no projectile weapons, small, about firecracker size, explosive bombs were permitted but sometimes what you thought would be firecracker size turned out not to be) some cracked windows and an irate apartment manager we had to stop doing it in their pool in the dead of night.
I was the maintenance manager there at the time, after management found out what we were doing I was no longer. 
The 'game' was evolving nicely, no more explosive devices and turning it from a free for all into a sort of 'death-race' where you must race like 6 laps around the pool, first survivor to cross the finish line wins a beer. That sort of thing, but after being chased off our 'course' we all kinda drifted our own way and Battle Boat Death Racing was no more. 
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RE: What were you doing a year ago?
February 25, 2010 at 9:07 am
(February 25, 2010 at 8:55 am)Dotard Wrote: That sort of thing, but after being chased off our 'course' we all kinda drifted our own way and Battle Boat Death Racing was no more.
That's a shame. In the UK there is still a big gun competition where scaled versions of battleships fire ball bearings at each other to sink the opponent. Great fun to look at. we even made some pneumatic parts for a few of the competitors a few years back.
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RE: What were you doing a year ago?
February 25, 2010 at 3:04 pm
a year ago i was probably sitting in class... nothing exciting 
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RE: What were you doing a year ago?
February 26, 2010 at 12:13 am
Quote:What schematics would you want? The pneumatics?
schematics sufficient to replicate one perhaps, I just like to see how everything works.
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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RE: What were you doing a year ago?
February 26, 2010 at 1:19 am
Breaking up with my first boyfriend, cheating on him with someone else, and then falling in love with my current boyfriend.
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RE: What were you doing a year ago?
February 26, 2010 at 8:18 am
Exactly? To this minute? Probably something with my hands, all alone, in front of the computer.... 
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RE: What were you doing a year ago?
February 26, 2010 at 8:22 am
Arguing with my wife about me spending too much time on video games.. the same thing I'm doing now.
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RE: What were you doing a year ago?
February 26, 2010 at 10:56 am
I can't remember that far back, so I looked at my livejournal for a post I made a year ago.
Oh joy, A year ago today I found out someone posted a friends locked entry on 4chan.
Eilonnwy's LJ Wrote:You know I've heard a lot of shit said about me since AB08 and honestly I've dealt with it. I've come to terms a long time ago that I have a strong personality, that not everyone agrees with me, and not everyone is going to like me. Added to that the fact that no matter what I do or say people are going to hate me for AB, and they can if they want. I'm not going to cry over anonymous hatred. At this point I'm used to the same BS and hearing the same misinformation about what happened in 08. But what made my blood run cold today was finding out my personal friends locked entry was posted on cosfu and 4chan. I know it was months ago, but I never knew. I would never do that anyone on my friends list. Never. I also wish I had been told.
I know I'm not a perfect person and I've probably pissed people off. I know I can get ranty or whiney on this journal, but you don't have to read it. Yeah, I complain a lot here, but it is my journal. Complaining on LJ is how I vent and then feel better.
If you where the one who posted my private entry, please have the balls to say who you are and confront me. I may also do a friends cut soon.
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RE: What were you doing a year ago?
February 26, 2010 at 11:16 am
(February 26, 2010 at 12:13 am)theblindferrengi Wrote: Quote:What schematics would you want? The pneumatics?
schematics sufficient to replicate one perhaps, I just like to see how everything works.
Well in that case I might as well refer you to this: http://www.riobotz.com.br/riobotz_combot_tutorial.pdf . 300 pages of combat robot building tutorial.
We did everything on paper and after we were done chucked those away. The plumbing is not that complicated so we do most by eye and hand anyway. The whole system with pictures you can find here:
http://www.team-rcc.org/data/robots/obsi...ebuild.php
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RE: What were you doing a year ago?
February 26, 2010 at 1:34 pm
That's unbelievably cool Leo 
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