What robot are you most proud of?
 

Howdy

Out of all the robots 144 has built, this years bot has been the absolute best robot we've built yet. But new isnt always better. With that said, what robot do you think is the best you've created so far?

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

Well since we are also one year out of Rookie..this one last years was building as simple as possible and not really having a clue. This year is much better.

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

In terms of ranking and results at competition, our 2010 robot performed the best. Until I see what our 2015 robot can do at competition, I'm most proud of our bot from 2014. It seemed competitive and reliable with (relatively) easy maintenance.

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

There's been so many but it's a close tie between our 1999 and 2002 robots, with the edge to our 2002 bot because it #1 seeded at two regionals and won one of them.

More recently, our 2013 and 2014 robots were pretty robust so we have a place in our hearts for them as well.

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

As a rookie team, of course I have to say this year.

That said, going forward, I know my opinion will not be so much on how well it meets the competition goals, but on how well we can get bizarre ideas to work.

Case in point, this year our rotating tower may not be the most efficient design, but we we're able to pull off four hooks and can pick up from three sides. I am very proud of our students and mentors making this crazy idea work. Now if only it had a name...

http://youtu.be/NcD_sojqrBA

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

Lunacy....maybe not so good of a game, but we built a nice robot to play it. And build season was a lot of fun, since we had a complete, working prototype by week 4.

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

Most Competitive: 2011 (Won 2 Districts)

Most Unique: 2012 (Custom Drivetrain, 4WD-6WD Hybrid)

Most Attractive: 2014 (First Painted Robot)

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

How about "The fourklift"?

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

It's pretty close between our last two robots:
2013 (Orion)- Einstein appearance, 2 district wins, IRI finals
2014 (Neo)- Galileo #4 captain, 2 district finals, 1 district win

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

We have made significant improvements every year (this is our fourth), so the answer so far has always been "this year's". An interesting statistic as I thought back over our designs is the simplification. Our first two robots had 9 and 10 independent actuators, the third had 7, and this year we just have 4 (H-drive and lift). Maybe next year we'll only have one. :ahh:

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

I would have to say our 2012 robot, even though competitively we could have done better, we really came together as a team that year.

It was the first year we used vision. We solved the pose of the robot, and I got to go to the international science fair (ISWEEEP) and present the vision program to a bunch of professional engineers for a week, placing 3rd in the end.

We made half court shots. I haven't seen another robot from that year do such, though I haven't really looked.

video: http://youtu.be/vzemnptiebk?t=3m2s

It wasn't so much our success that year, but that it paved our way to success for the following year.

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

This one. It looks so much nicer and runs so much better (especially compared to last year) than any of the other two robots I helped make. 2013 was an odd-looking bosch bot, 2014 was poorly cadded and had numerous errors. This year is coming off with only minor hitches.

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

With out a doubt this year. We have our first fully CADed robot. We used to do a little CAD for our CNC tank tread drivetrain up too 2011, but 2015 is our first full CAD.

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

My personal favorite of ours is our 2014 robot, partially because it worked extremely well with a balance of custom and COTS. It was our most used robot with 2 regional events and 2 off season events plus several demos.
Our most competitive robot was arguably last year but our 2013 robot has more stats to back it up with being a Curie semifinalist.

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

Probably our 2012 robot, Phoenix. Phoenix was the most reliable robot that we've ever built, and it remains our only robot to make it to eliminations in St. Louis. (Thanks again, WildStang and MOE!)

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

FRC 4607 is a young team - but we have had a couple of fairly memorable robots...

2013 - Peanut. We had some issues on the practice day of our first regional and thus had to completely rebuild our robot. It went from a defensive robot that could saunter under the pyramid to the tallest come MN State Championships. Our team grew up overnight that season. Our robot, Peanut did as well.
Peanut 2013
At NorthStar we were Rookie All-stars, Won the regional (TY 967 & 2175), and then went on to win the MN State Championship (thank you 2175 and 2052)!

2014 - Gumdrop. We stumbled out of the gate at North Star going 0-2-1 and most wrote us off as a one-year-wonder. However, the PIT team figured out the problem we went undefeated and then were picked by the #1 alliance of 967 & 2175. We swept through the QF and then lost in three to the eventual champions. We qualified for the MN State Tourney again and were on a roll until one of our wheels blew out. We finished as the #2 Captain and chose 3018 and 2530. We ended up in the State finals against 2175, 2052, and 4778. I have never been so proud of a 2nd place finish as we just went toe-to-toe with two perennial powerhouses in MN! Later that year we won MRI and then finished in the Semis at Minne-Mini!
Gumdrop

2015 - Briar/Thorn. This year we have 49 members on FRC 4607 - CIS. It is the most comprehensive robot to date for us. We have made certain to bring all members into the fold of CIS and I am proud of what this team has done in the wake of our previous years. Our off-season endeavors have put us in a new position in MN FRC; our new members have already made their mark (see our new website); for the second year we have built a practice robot; we are continuing our outreach with our RoboCamp; we have a new FTC team (9536) and 5 more on the way; we have 3 FLL teams starting next fall... and the list can go on.
We also posted a video to FRCTOP25 "Sneak Peak of Briar/Thorn" on for the first time ever. Yes - it was a bit of a Faux Pas on our part...

I know that this is long-winded - but for those that know me know that this is par for the course. So after all that - my favorite robot is...

Sorry. They all bring back so many great memories. I love coaching this team. I love seeing the alumni come back and instilling their knowledge in the newbies.

Go 4607!

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

340's 2012 Robot. Simple, effective.

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

Our best/favorite robot has to be 2014. We had an awesome 8 wheel tank drive and a pretty cool catching ability.:D

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

My favorite of my four years was definitely 2011. It was my first year, our team's first (and so far only) crab drive, a belt-driven elevator, and a cool claw design, along with a great minibot (until SBPLI finals). That robot went from ranked dead last at NYC to number 7 alliance captain and Regional Finalist a short time later at SBPLI. I still consider those eliminations to be some of my favorites over my four years.

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

I like Team 1448's robot this year, but my all time favorite robot we've built is our Ultimate Ascent robot. She was a 30pt climber and could dump the colored discs at the top. The completely autonomous climb was my favorite aspect of it!

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

Our 2014 robot is the only robot to actually win a blue banner in our 17 years of competition, but I still think our "best" robot was from 2005. We could basically stack tetras higher than any other team in the Newton division, and we were pretty fast too. That earned us a spot as the #1 seed's first pick, and if we had worked correctly throughout elims then I bet we could have beat the 330/67/503 alliance and possibly win nationals. That being said, we were still division finalists.

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

Im most proud of this year since last year we had a drive train.

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

2007 for us. We built a ridiculous boom and built our own two-speed transmission. We went undefeated at the St. Louis regional and won the Industrial Design award. We went on to nationals in Atlanta and didn't fair too well, but it was a fantastic time and our team grew a lot closer.

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

While our 2014 robot, Eclipse, was the best robot we ever built, our 2013 robot was my first taste of real success in FRC.
2013-Cathy
Our goal is 2013 was to not suck. Our 2012 robot was an utter failure that was way overbuilt and totally ineffective. 2013 we decided we would do one thing, and do it well. We picked floor collecting.
With a few promising prototypes, we tried to remove all sources of possible failure in the system. We only shot from one location, we lined discs up side by side so the system wouldn't jam like some bucket hoppers did.
We use two oversized pistons to hang, and used them as a hard stop so we made almost every shot. We decided not to go under the pyramid to make it simpler even.
We ended up with an extremely successful robot, going undefeated at the Connecticut Regional, reaching the finals at WPI, and getting picked at the championship event for the first time since 2010.

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

Your 2005 machine was amazing! I think we saw each other at Buckeye and in the Newton division and it was by far the best robot on the field at any time.

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

:D

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

^^ This guy :)

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

2013 robot Arcana. We got 10th in Galileo.

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

Our 2011 robot was my most proud robot to work on. While it was frustrating to work on and had many quirky mechanisms, its drive train was a beast. When we finally got it all working we seeded decently at Midwest and were able to sneak a win a match off of the 111/118 alliance using some massive defense.

Re: What robot are you most proud of?
 

I mentored Team 975 from 2002 to 2006. Our 2006 bot was the best, even got the Motorola Quality Award at the VCU regional.

Compact 4 wheel drive, tons of traction and power, picked up and shot balls well. About every component was visible and accessible and it looked simple.

In one match involving a head-to-head pushing match, both robots suddenly flipped over backwards, LOL. Despite having a slightly high center of gravity, it could climb the ramp with little trouble.