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[jamesb]

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Kiara Lambert?
everyone knows of her of course, unless you know the robot as dantom, but i dont think ive ever actually met her.
there are not many robots i hope will win, (other than mine of course) but i expect well all be routing for small torque.
best of luck geoff and kiara.

[leorcc]

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De = The
Biel = Axe in a dialect

Debiel = nitwit, moron, idiot.

Its a Dutch wordjoke. And as with all wordjokes, if you have to explain them, there not funny anymore.



(Message edited by leo-rcc on July 27, 2006)

[geoff]

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Just when I thought I was being clever!
Biel..that must be some dialect.. I couldnt find any reference to an axe!!
nearest I found was Biels... Railway sleepers!!

Throws large Nederlands/Engels/Nederlands woordenboek in the bin!!

I knew it was a mistake to try to learn this language!

[bex]

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LOL I bought a Dutch phrase book to help me with Dutch. They spell things how they are pronounced. I bought it only to find somone who is dutch who can help me cant even pronounce the words in it. I stand know chance really then!

[leorcc]

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The correct dutch word is Bijl. Biel is more boers if you will. the pronouncition would be something like bayl and the dialect version beel.

[geoff]

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With you now Leo, just let me get the hang of proper Dutch first before dropping coloquial Dutch on me too!!
Or by boers do you mean it has an Afrikaans origin.
Sorry to go on, but Im genuinely intrested in the language and this is the sort of thing you dont find in formal textbooks.

[mjm]

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boers means like a farmer so not standard language :-)
And Geoff, youve got it wrong way round. Afrikaans is from Dutch origin, with some English and German influences.

[geoff]

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I understand now.. Thanks Leo.

[bugs]

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Hehehehe.. all this for a name...
It was kind of hard to translate the joke to english.. I couldnt find a good equivalent. Im open to suggestions

[anukhet]

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Stefan, how about......
Whats long, brown and sticky?
A stick!


(Message edited by anukhet on July 28, 2006)

[woody]

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Perhaps Plank might be close?
plank - an idiot, fool. e.g. You complete plank !. Derogatory

NOT to be confused with ...plank - derogatory term for Afrikaner (derived from an older insult, An Afrikaner sounds as thick as a plank (ie, very stupid) when he speaks English)

[babeth]

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Plank is his other feather.

[ewan]

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Starting to get Vertigo ready for the champs - Ive fitted a new actuator in for the lifter. It will be lifter only for the champs as the weight isnt there for must-have additional armour otherwise. The actuator is just about as pacy as the last one but packs in ~120kg of force (the other being a comparetively miserable 40kg) and as a bonus is a couple of hundred grams lighter.

http://www.micro-maul.co.uk/vertigo2/IMG_3384.jpghttp://www.micro-maul.co.uk/vertigo2/IMG_3384.jpg
http://www.micro-maul.co.uk/vertigo2/IMG_3380.jpghttp://www.micro-maul.co.uk/vertigo2/IMG_3380.jpg

Ive got four small 600mah 13.2v packs I got off Ebay a while back (£4.00 for the lot, cant argue with that!) that Ill make up into 26.4v packs to feed the lifter with some more juice.

http://www.micro-maul.co.uk/vertigo2/IMG_3378.jpghttp://www.micro-maul.co.uk/vertigo2/IMG_3378.jpg

Ive also finally finished the needed gearbox mod for the drive motors. Theyre all steel gears now and Ive got the outer shell of the planetary gearboxes nicely aligned this time. Ill get round eventually to sticking some fans on the motors to help reliability while the sidewinder current limit is off.

http://www.micro-maul.co.uk/vertigo2/IMG_3386.jpghttp://www.micro-maul.co.uk/vertigo2/IMG_3386.jpg

Ill clad this monster feather with a variety of armour compounds to stand up to the undoubtedly tough competition at this years champs. Random pics:

http://www.micro-maul.co.uk/vertigo2/IMG_3377.jpghttp://www.micro-maul.co.uk/vertigo2/IMG_3377.jpg
http://www.micro-maul.co.uk/vertigo2/IMG_3383.jpghttp://www.micro-maul.co.uk/vertigo2/IMG_3383.jpg

[leorcc]

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Looks great Ewan. Should be fun.

[RogueTwoRobots]

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Does running it soley with the lifter impair the self-righting capabilities at all?