Storage Hunter Finds a FRC Robot

[Mike AA]

I haven't seen the episode yet (dvr recorded other "less important" stuff) but just looking at the pictures I would have to say someone definately staged the robot. There is NO way anyone would have setup a robot with all the devices all over the place. I suppose its possible for this to be pulled from a storage unit a team had and forgot about but highly doubtful. This could be one of the best cases of i don't know what this is but lets make it look fancy. Wasn't there a team that had a bunch of stuff stolen a while back?

[Cuog]

Based on it being with other non FRC robots, I think it belonged to someone connected to a FIRST team and some other organizations who pillaged leftover parts and was working on some of their own projects.

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by Mike AA

I haven't seen the episode yet (dvr recorded other "less important" stuff) but just looking at the pictures I would have to say someone definately staged the robot. There is NO way anyone would have setup a robot with all the devices all over the place. I suppose its possible for this to be pulled from a storage unit a team had and forgot about but highly doubtful. This could be one of the best cases of i don't know what this is but lets make it look fancy. Wasn't there a team that had a bunch of stuff stolen a while back?

+1 this looks completely staged and I'm not surprised. Poor little guy!

[rsisk]

[s_forbes]

Wait, does this mean TV isn't real? I'm shocked and appalled.

[ratdude747]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

+1 this looks completely staged and I'm not surprised. Poor little guy!

based one the most recent picture, I'd agree. they fricking zip tied loose cRIO modules to the frame. also there is a random 2009 blue box of doom on there along side an IFI controller.I also note a 120A breaker with no wires going to it. to most laymen it looks like nothing but to us, it is obviously fake. last, I see two 120mm fans in honestly "random" places.

me thinks they are tossing "obscure" junk into storage bins and scripting the rest. lame.

Guess what show I'm not going to watch?

[Garrett.d.w]

Originally Posted by ratdude747

me thinks they are tossing "obscure" junk into storage bins and scripting the rest. lame.

Hit it right on the head, it has STAGED written all over the bumpers. Its kind of sad.
ANYWAY.... since we all know that it is staged, they should have at least done a good job of it, like borrowing a FIRST team's actual robot. It would have probably made a good show if they had "found" a working robot. It would have also kept the facts straight as far as to who built it. Along that line, does anyone know who's it is?

[ratdude747]

Originally Posted by Garrett.d.w

Along that line, does anyone know who's it is?

it is speculated to be 1277's bot, circa 2007. see page one of the thread and the picture of their 2007 bot. you might notice a similarity.

[Karibou]

+1 for staged. Anyone notice that the pneumatic tubing wrapped around the frame doesn't even go anywhere? It doesn't even attach to the air tank that also looks randomly strapped down.

However, if everything on that bot was competition legal and ready except for the IFI controller being right next to the "blue box of doom" (nice name!), I could still believe that it was a feasible practice bot. We did that with one of our old-competition-bot-turned-practice-bot because we were alltogether too lazy to take off the entire old control board.

[Travis Hoffman]

So uh where do I find the owners of this Frakensteinian monstrosity so I can buy it on the cheap, put it out of its misery, and gut it for parts?

[Duke461]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

So uh where do I find the owners of this Frakensteinian monstrosity so I can buy it on the cheap, put it out of its misery, and gut it for parts?

They live in Los Angeles, California
The 2011 axis camera that was on there is worth decent money, right?

[Kyoshirin]

I love the compressor that's connected to itself.
They didn't even use connectors. They just took a piece of tubing and looped it into the two exhaust ports. *shakes head*

[avanboekel]

Although it appears staged (and it probably is), is it possible that it was someone's side project and they had absolutely no clue what they were doing? Say this person got an old '07 bot that had already been gutted for parts, and tried to piece it back together into working condition year by year as they could.

The only things wrong with this theory are:
1) Why would someone spend money on trying to fix something that they obviously have no clue how to fix?
2) Why would they have that battle bot that looks as to be in good condition?

If it was staged, I just don't know why it would be staged this badly. As it was mentioned before, it would have been cool for them to have found a working FRC bot, and be able see them run it. Even a mention of FIRST would have been nice. Instead, they claimed that it was built by MIT.

Things just don't add up. There are too many unexplained details.

[lemiant]

Has anybody emailed them and asked about this?

[StashZabriski]

Of course there's also the NI logos on a few of the pieces on the bot. That's something you REALLY have to look for, but they're there. I can't get a good screen capture of them though :-(

~Stash~