Trick
 

When we were testing the pneumatics on our bot we threw a small cardboard box with a few screws inside most of the way across the room.. so I figure if we know we're gonna loose a match we open up the flow limiters all the way and catapult a waterballon at the other team's controllers...

Last year our ball grabber actually did injure someone during practice. One of the kids :cough: freshmen :cough: "accidentally" hit the swith for the pneumatics (luckily we later used the freshman as a sacrafice to the robot gods)

Haha, we had something similar like that happen..except it was to our student mechanical team co-leader. Our team leader was driving he put his head next to a wing, and someone let the wing down...he got hit right in the side of the head, we got him away from the bot and checked the bot to make sure he didnt break it...hehe

Traction Tricks
 

Our robot can slam into walls, burn you with its motor casings, and make loud grinding noises.

It has also been seen dragging an engineer with a black belt in karate across a carpet floor on his knees with no treads on the wheels.

With the drill motors in high gear we can't turn at all, but we go about 16 feet per second. Drag race, anyone?

Too bad we only have one week to build an end effector.

I feel for you man...
Actually we've got the CIM's goin 15 fps and we still have loads of torque. Want a race? We're up for it...

we've had a few plans.

Since the drill motors have been more or less reliable
we've mounted massive 700 Watt subwoofers as propulsion.
By playing a very loud low frequency noise, you've got thrust.

Vertical Take off capability was also achieved but we lost control
when we tried to convert to level flight.

Using a nuclear powerplant was looked at but we figured it'd be listed under an "exotic material"

So after a few failures of the VTOL system again, we decided that a firmly planted bot on the ground is our last option.

our robot
 

We put little busters on our engine that gives it a turbo buster:confused:
We can go around the field 3 times in 1:03 seconds:rolleyes:

Lol. At kickoff someone suggested putting on a floodlight to throw off the other team's light sensors. Stupid legalness.

Our Robot Can:

-Miraculosly loose and gain 10 pounds at will.
-Redesign itself in 2 days.
-Break down at pivatal moments.
-Accomplish the impossible.

So, so far we are doing what everyother FIRST team can do. :)

give us up the stacks
 

We hope to bring an additional transmitter and jam up the frequencies of other robots causing them to rip their wirey innards out in a frantic struggle. Also, our robot is extremely agile due to the fact that it is nought but a team member wrapped in tin foil.:D

we've specially modified the light to hypnotize all of the refs, judges, and enemy alliance (not us though- we wear special glasses). Then our team runs out and stacks all of the boxes on our side and pushes our robot to the top of the hill (we forgot to make it drive). Its a fool-proof plan, and no-one knows what kind of special glasses to get, so that is why we are telling about it.

We've found a way to instantaneously lower the room temperature to 0K, while creating a bubble of 298K that's approximately 1 meter from all the outermost edges of the robot, allowing us to freeze time and move all the boxes into our scoring zone.

This happens during the autonomous period. The refs might get confused, but we can do it more than once to prove we aren't cheating in any way. (At least, I don't BELIEVE it's against the rules...)

just out of curiosity, are you 4wd and what kind of wheels are you using?

The best trick any robot ever did was to force a bunch of people between the ages of 13 and 70 to give up a lot of their sleep to put all their atttention on it.

These robots are like newborns; they demand a lot of attention in order to have a happy life.