2004 DarkSabre MPC

2004 DarkSabre MPC
This is Dark Sabre's Energy Transfer List (ETL) from the 2004 National Tournament. Added on are two columns (Picture and Description) to help explain what is going on. The pictures here have been cropped significantly to help show exactly what is going on. Many more pictures are available on the gallery here.

Note that the rules for the ETL have changed every year and the below should not be considered an example for whatever the current rules are.

This machine was not nearly as successful as my entry in 2005. This is mostly my fault, rather than the machine's. At nationals, I was nervous and over-volted my laser, which broke it (goodbye starting transfer). I also forgot to uncap the sharpie that was supposed to draw a figure-8 on the post-it. I also misaligned the squirt gun and it got water on a judge :P. Nationals was in Juniata that year and it rained. A lot. My static detector, which was a little gimpy to start with, failed completely. Needless to say, I went into 2005 having learned some lessons about building machines and not screwing up from being nervous.