Re: Ideas for a demo bot
 

It all depends on who you are attempting to entertain. Personally I am a big fan of big bots with a very cool mechanism. When I was in the 8th grade I went to the high school I go to now and saw our 04 bot. All it did was use a scissor lift to hang but, it was epic it was bright orange and it reached about 10ft in the air.

I think though something that is practical is always good. Something I wanted to always do was build a tee shirt shooter for pep rallies and the like. I though that if it was on an omni drive and had a cmu cam I could place a green light over the principal or and other guest and shot a tee shirt directly to them.

Re: Ideas for a demo bot
 

We are currently working on a new t-shirt cannon for our show bot. we had our 2003 robot as the cannon but the robot wore out. We used it at school events like football games and assemablies, and when we do things in the community, The Noise atrracts attension. As soon as the new one is finished we will post pictures.
I found that kids loved our 2006 robot. We would dump a hooper load of balls, out on the ground, and then kids would either push them back into the rollers or throw them into the hooper opening. The kids had a blast doing this, only problem was they started reaching into the robot for balls. But any kind of robot that kids can interact with is good for a show robot. Alot of people are just impressed with what you can do, so any robot can be a show robot.

Re: Ideas for a demo bot
 

my team uses our AIM HIGH shooter robot ... we prettyed it up to show people cause most people have no idea what they are looking at ... we painted a bunch of parts and polished the frame with some Mothers Aluminum polish ( btw it looks much better) ... ya thats pretty much it