tricksy hobbitses
 

Our robot is the best, it is a helicopter that hides in a bin and then pops out, scaring the other robots into submission, then flies around stacking boxes. As for the stickers on the lids, we've been taking them off and wearing them, considering that we are likely to strangle each other I guess . . . . . It's a good warning to those around us, I mean, so many space monkeys can get on your nerves. . .

To be serious...
 

Ok, we've heard some pretty crazy things, but here's what the 2003 RAPTAR robot can do:

1. Gain 133 pts. within less than 10 seconds of the game.
Comment:
This is only a last ditch startup, because we wouldn't have a good QP score...

2. Stack as many bins as possible/needed.
Comment:
From 14" to 4' tall, the RAPTAR robot has it all...

3. Block the Ramp

4. Pass under the side bar.

5. Much MUCH more :cool:

So, look out fellow VCU Reigonal Teams, It's RAPTAR feeding time...

PS:
Yes, we are technically rookies.
However, several team members (such as I) have been on other FIRST teams before, or have good engineering experience.
WE DO NOT SUCK.
Thank you.
(Anger supressing...)

stuff :p

More details to come later ;)

Lift a stack of 8 BC's (our code word for bins) in 1 sec

and others :p

Some of you were mocking us when I said our robot will float, but I am dead serious, we can walk on water. Come on how many of you can really do that.

Would you post some details already???

Details
 

Shhh... it's a secret.Details

I think you can figure out the rest from there... :o
It's all pretty straight forward really.

That"s a great idea, and if I"m guessing correctly, you"ll 0\/\/NX012 the platform, but how would you inflate one of those without breaking some pneumatics air storage rules? Anyhow, in the hands of a skilled militant feminist, our robot could castrate someone (thank god all the feminists I know are into writing, not robots).

Our robot is already finished and it's invisible! (or at least its what the engineers tell me when i catch them slacking)

Re: Details
 

:yikes: ....yeah..that sums it up pretty well

Re: Details
 

Oh, I understand now. :D :p

I guess I can share the secret (Sorry John)
Hey with the new list of part you can use, we figured that we should use inflatable rafts. Once the match starts we are going to use the pump to blow up the rafts making our robot so huge that it is so easy to hit the wall.

Please make sure that you all file those sharp corners.

We are having a Tesla Coil to cause electromagnetic interference so the other teams will lose radio communication with their robots. As for the autonomous period, we are going to have a high voltage electrical current arcing across the front or our robot so any robot that gets in our way will be shorted out and left inoperable.

Hey, that sounds similar to our "We're losing by a whole lot! We can't be disgraced like this!" Plan...

It involves an big red button on the control panel under a piece of glass marked EMP......

That's nothing compared to our Auto-Weld-O Bot - it'll mig or tig or arc weld anything in our way to the side rails or another robot! Then we'll deploy our helocopter mousebot with a vacuum and it'll grab boxes from the other side and stack them on our side!
Perhaps, if that doesn't work, we'll just plant atomic bombs in the boxes and launch them over to the opponent's side....
oh the decisions!

lauren