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We were thinking about making a robot for the new people from the 2014-15 season. We are thinking about making a robot that shoots footballs. That's just one idea though.

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Might have something to do with page 8, item 15. Despite this, some photos on CD show teams with their 1992 robots. I wasn't born yet, so I don't know how this came to be. Is there anyone who can shed some light on this?

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I'm guessing that some teams successfully made "arrangements .. for release of the machines for display and educational purposes", and others did not. Not necessarily through persistence or lack thereof.

I'm glad FIRST realized that the greatest inspiration would come from a robot being in possession of the team that built it. It's a shame that they didn't back-date that decision.

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Students and leaders.

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Would you please be a bit more specific?:rolleyes: (methods, not names!)

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Our now graduated seniors are teaching new programmers. We lost all of them.

We are also putting together a kiwi drive robot because we have always wanted one but didn't want to play with it during build season.

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I wasn't on the team back then (we only have one mentor left from our original year) but I think FIRST kept our robot because we won the original Chairman's award. Honestly I don't know why they didn't keep Gael Force's robot since it won the World Championship that year. I think FIRST should keep every world championship robot after the season is said and done. That's part of it's history and they should be preserved.

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I feel kinda bad for the team though. Now they cant go to offseason events with their world champion bot. Granted they probably have a practice bot but its not the same.

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Well, if the robot is still together they could give it to FIRST the next year - I have a feeling all of the previous world champion robots of non-defunct teams are still sitting in a shop somewhere (even the ones from 1992). I know we have all 18 of our robots in our shop.

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Our team has always used Labview. Labview has served us well. Things are changing. With the FTC switch to Android and Java, we are looking at changing FRC to Java. There is student push to do this. Some students have already had intro courses to computing that used Java. The big reason is that many students will be taking the AP computer course and that's Java. Our FTC team has begun to build a test base. When the FTC hardware and software becomes available the goal is to have a functioning chassis with a manipulator and some sensors all programmed and functioning. FRC has already begun to port our swerve Labview code to java. The FTC motor controllers have been intelligent with commands passed over I2C and the controller handling the encoders. With the change to FRC Java we are also looking to switch to CAN Talons to follow the FTC model of intelligent motion controllers. If we go to CAN Talons our current 5 volt analog absolute rotary position sensors will not work with out adapter boards. We will evaluate some of the Austria Micro Systems 3.3 volt sensors. AS5600.
Yesterday, We had the first class on Solid Works. The goal is to have the students solidworks certified by end of summer. Busy summer.

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I know WildStang's from 1997 has long been on display, though the inner tubes were replaced with Rack 'N Roll keepers circa 2007. I recall Frank mentioned on the blog that 254 sent a replica of their 2014 robot.

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As for us, we'll be doing the Columbia Mini Maker Faire this Saturday--showing off Sandstorm II, collecting info for potential new members, and piloting an outreach program for when we just can't run an FRC robot. We did a lot last offseason and it was tough to keep newbies engaged and veterans from getting burned out. We may yet prototype some items or do something crazier, but we'll see. :)

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Me and a teammate are familiarizing ourselves with many FRC designs by making functional models out of our MindStorms kits. So far we have done 6 wheel tank drive and a double 4-bar lift.

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I think I've seen pictures of 254's 2005 'bot on display. Correct me if I'm wrong

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Tote bot for demos and converting this years practice robot to H-drive for testing.

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Last year we made a lounge chair mecanum bot, which will be rebuilt and upgraded in the fall with the new control system. We'll also be building a chain-in-tube WCD base. We plan to attend Cow Town Throwdown, and we also will have our incoming Freshmen competing in BEST Robotics around the same time.