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Well, I already took home the original "thumb" for our robot. This original one was mangled when I cut it the wrong way on Ship Date, and it ended up taking a very tiny chunk out of my finger, so I have kept it as a memento.

Another thing that my team has done over the past two years is take off one of the "license plates" from our robot and given it to our most treasured team mentor, and I would really like to get one before I leave the team this year. (Hint to my teammates. ;))

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For me, its camera and the SCME
SCME stands for "Sweetest Camera Mount Ever", it was dubbed that by the rest of the team. It essentially looked like an erector set attached to the side of our robot :D i was $@#$@#$@#$@# proud of my handy work :D

it was based on the stock camera mount, modified for 2 axis rotation. Problem, since it was my rookie year, i heavily underestimated how much abuse it would have to take. It broke our second time out due to auto code error and some rough driving.

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for this year's bot i would probably the back bent bars...boy did we have lots of memories connected to them...for the match w/ 179 in south carolina, pre-season scrimmage in 179's pit when the winch stalled...the beating they took at UCF....so i had to replace the bars but that's okay...

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From this years robot I would probably keep, the right front angle aluminum gaurd. Just because I fabricated the gaurd, broke it in competition and fixed it again. Alot of time and effort went into those gaurds, and it was the only thing protecting the air tanks and release valve, that never got damaged.

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I would for sure keep a wing. Not only are they pretty and unique, they were the part of the robot that I worked most on.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...eason/Wing.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...ason/Wings.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...hotos/5cd8.jpg

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i would totally take a castor...i formed this weird attachment to the castors, dunno why...i even had a pair of them in my carry on luggage on the way to championships and i had to call airport cargo and security to make sure that my having them wouldnt cause problems. and the bag-checker looked at me funny but i explained and then he laughed and waved me on so it was all good. but the castors were awesome, they made us a little too pushable but then again we were fast and fast is good. we were able to avoid confrontation and i liked that...

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That'd be my choice too. :)

Come on... who does want to have the expensive bit. :cool:

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I did get to keep one part of the robot this year...a wheelchair wheel. We had some trouble with our omnis at UTC, as they were burning holes in the carpet, so we had to put the wheelchair ones on as replacements. At Philly, we managed to shatter the center out of two of them. At the end of competition, I was instructed to throw them out. Instead, I made a necklace out of one using the beads my team was giving out. It's hanging in my room as we speak.

If I were allowed to take any part home, I'd take the Bobcat 2004's basket mechanism for small balls. Think of the storage possibilities!

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Robot Controller because I spend hours programming on that thing.