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now that's HOT!

so what's all the details!?

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In short the HOTBOT will hang a keeper, hangs ringers at all levels, and can lift two robots to a height of more than 12 inches. We will post a video tomorrow afternoon.

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I am a member of the HOT team and i will be posting two videos tommorow of our robot, at approximately 5:00, untill then,:cool: imagine!

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That is an incredible robot! It looks like a ton of thought went into every little part of it. I will be shocked if you don't outperform almost every other bot on the field!

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From the other picture you guys posted, it looks like you guys are going under robots and picking them up. Do you think teams will like that?

Very nice bot. I like the arm. Can't wait to see it in action in person.

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Definitly an great looking bot (as exspected from 67) but, call me old fashioned, but I'm missing the days of your old drive train set up, where you'd start a match on your back end, then fall forward, to me that's always been the signature of HOTBOT. Though I can understand why with the last few you've drifted away form it.

Nice job guys!

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Another awesome design from an awesome team!
Good Luck at the competition!

Ellery

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/me want to see video of awesome robot!

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QUOTE=Anubuss;582068]Definitly an great looking bot (as exspected from 67) but, call me old fashioned, but I'm missing the days of your old drive train set up, where you'd start a match on your back end, then fall forward, to me that's always been the signature of HOTBOT. Though I can understand why with the last few you've drifted away form it.

Nice job guys![/quote]

We didn't do a flopbot because we couldn't figure what do do with the flag when we flopped! Just kidding. We felt that the game this year didn't require the extra stability that the flopbot gave us. I hope we are right.

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Looks great. Just out of curiosity, how close are you to the 72x72 limit?

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We do not violate this rule, if that's what you're asking.

Yes we lift under the robots. This is something we put a lot of thought into. Our "racks" are 16" wide and 1" tall, and lift to a height 16" off the ground, which allows for robots to have up to 4" of ground clearnace. Our lifts can safely lift all our previous robots without fear of damaging them. We were originally planning to have a drive-on platform on the top of these lifts. After much consideration, we felt all-in-all this was a safer way to lift other robots. They're much less sensitive to the positioning of the robot (wheels hanging off the edge and whatnot) and it prevents robots from rolling off while being lifted. Hopefully we can work with our partners before the match to ensure we can lift them without fear of damaging their robot.

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It's kind of funny how people have associated what we call the "flop" with our team. We only did this for 2 years of the 10 or so that we've been building robots, and those two machines couldn't have been more different drivetrain wise. In '04 it was basically a two wheel drive skid steer machine with low speed front wheels that would deploy and lift those movable goals a bit. In '05 (the tetra year) we had a three wheel "swerve" drive. The flop is not all it's cracked up to be either, the process of falling down can have a very detrimental affect on the remainder of the autonomous mode. We had a heck of a time keeping a tetra in our possession during this process in '05.

Many people may not be aware but last year it was against the rules to "flop".

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How come our robot never looks pretty? *sobs*

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It's beautiful...I love our bot. I think I want to take it to prom...:D

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Looks interesting, and can't wait to see the videos. Your arm looks simple; is it as easy to pick up the tubes as it appears???

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so when is this video getting posted, hmm?

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I thought if anyone, you'd know.:p
It must be a Walt thing.

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Can it reach all three levels of the rack? It sure looks like it can with ease. Good job, too. Looks Great!

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videos??

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Don't you consider the 2000 robot a flopper? It wasn't a perma-flop bot, but it definitely flopped....as did Beatty. Both of which were the first of their kind that I can recall.

The new one looks great by the way.

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yeah, we've practiced on all three levels, and the HOTBOT looks great for all of them.

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So when is it getting posted? just curious.;)

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these are the videos of the team 67 2007 autonomous and teleoperated modes (first and third level)

Autonomous
Teleoperated Mode First Level
Teleoperated Mode Third Level

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Wow, I love it.
That CMU camera mount is great! A very small feature in all of them, but a great one at any rate. Great job design team! Can't wait to see it in action at GLR and WMR!

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yeah i was in charge of the camera and adam did the mounting, he said it makes the robot look about one hundred times better

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Really nice bot. you did a good job.

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Just out of curiousity...do you have video of your lift in action?

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Gosh, I wish our team had mentors like Jim, Dave, Tom, Kenny, Lori, Rodney, and everyone else that devotes so much time to your team! :0 your robot is too good!!! If anyone sees this tell the people listed that there robot is amazing, and tell them that Mason (Mikes Kid) says that the robot is increadable!

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yay for videos!!!!

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that robot is hot. good job this year.

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Thank you all for your kind thoughts and words.
A lot of work, as usual, has gone into this year's robot.
See you all in competition and may the best robot win!

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We've all been there

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Yeah, 2000 was technically a flopper too, but we only did that in a handfull of matches, where the 04 and 05 bots had to flop to start.

There haven't been too many flopper bots in the game, but I know of two of them that were on national championship aliances. Ours in '05, and Beatty's in... I believe that was '03. You know the one that grabbed all 3 goals and then used file cards on it's slow march across the field.

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Right game wrong year. Beatty was in '01

Edit: wrong again, it was 02, thanks guys. I should know this, too, I've watched those videos waaaay too many times

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Right game, wrong year as well. Their flopbot was 2002, the year of Zone Zeal. (Partial credit, however; Beatty did also win the Championship in 2001, just not with a flopbot.)

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First of their kind as in the first flopbots? I'm not sure if there were any flopbots from before 2000, but I know more than just 67 and 71 flopped in 2000 (116 also did, among several others).

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Oh man... I didn't even notice that I forgot a major one that must of slipped my mind Walt Hickok the creator of this thread and the founder of team 47 (67) sorry about that. :) Good luck this year 67.... Good news... well maybe... I am the driver for team 548 and will hopefully be in alience with, or agenst :confused: team 67 for one or two of our matches, and hopefully will see them in the final rounds of Great Lakes. Good luck all, and see you at the competitions.

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Wow, I just saw video from the great lakes regional and this machine looks like a beast. I especially love the lift system on it. I definitely will be watching out for the "Hotbot" in Atlanta. Good luck team 67! :)

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Wow! Fantastic job! Now try to lift a 300-wheelchair+occupant system and tell me how you do! :D