Furry friends essential to robotics photo stream

lacsap · October 10, 2021, 7:31pm

This topic is to honor our furry friends in robotics - no Worlds trophy, but deep in our hearts they are part of what we do…

QCC2 Jason furry friend - Boris!

Boris sabotaging 4344 work!

lacsap · October 10, 2021, 7:32pm

My dog Zephyr sabotaging any 9791 practice during winter break.

Noah10851B · October 10, 2021, 7:36pm

Watch out for a flood from @Milo409B and @Claymarks

lacsap · October 10, 2021, 7:37pm

Bring it on! Maybe this will be a picture stream at Worlds!

(long overdue! )

Zawackiest · October 10, 2021, 8:46pm

had a bit of an audience at virtual worlds lol, both cats made appearances at some point

lacsap · October 10, 2021, 9:00pm

Clearly the officials are biased!

VexTeamZ · October 10, 2021, 9:03pm

Cats love the iq fields (especially next level).
Dogs love the vrc fields.

lacsap · October 10, 2021, 9:05pm

Data please to support this assertion
only see VRC furry friends, no VIQC …

VexTeamZ · October 10, 2021, 9:17pm

I don’t have any pictures or videos, if that’s what you want.
But when I was on an IQ team during next level, our cat would always get on the field and would rub up against the hanging bar, until she got scared off by our robot with it’s 3:1 drive ratio.
Our dog loves to stretch out on the vrc foam tiles.

Milo409B · October 11, 2021, 4:07am

@Noah10851B You know me so well.

Hao_16688C · October 11, 2021, 4:15am

milo that time your cat was on stream at worlds

Milo409B · October 11, 2021, 4:46am

I can find it in a bit.

Illyana · October 11, 2021, 8:26pm

Yay, after you spend a few hours trying to teach your lovely pet some robotics tricks, you get a new appreciation of the relative ease and repeatability of the programming your furryless V5 companion.

On the other hand, many programmers have reported seeing gremlins peeking from the V5 brain ports after a sleepless night of coding the autonomous…

Worthington3799 · October 11, 2021, 8:42pm

Hold on, the gremlins doing the coding or the programmers? Because they’re relatively the same thing. (Programmers please don’t yell at me)

Illyana · October 11, 2021, 8:53pm

Yes, there were quite a few occasions when the robot was doing weird stuff on the field and the programmer swore that they never coded that, and that gremlins taking over the robot control must be the only and the most logical explanation.

To which I must agree, because they were the ones who’ve seen the gremlins, and you never argue about the logic with the programmer.

ItsMe · October 11, 2021, 9:29pm

My dog Chikoo’s current favorite toy is a Turning Point ball. Here she is showing it off. Unfortunately she did destroy the ITZ cone she was given before.