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Borg Cube - assimilates other bots :)

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wrapping our littlest freshmen in tinfoil on 80-20 stilts. as long as theyre in the BOM, it doesn't say in the manual no people used as parts?

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You may want to examine your materials in further depth. That design was a leading one on my team until we realized none of our little freshman can pick up the ball :rolleyes:. And neither can some mentors...

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That would have worked well for last year... if you could get the robot to go high enough. Our team actually thought about doing that.

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I know for the 2006 contest the team decided to fire balls with a wooden wheel and timing belts as tank treads. The wheel didn't work and the robot moved slower than us. It was retooled at a second regional and played pure defense, as a 4 wheel drive robot. It was kinda funny to see it flapping its wings though, they were designed to shoo balls into the corner goals.

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A robot with an array of airzookas to knock the trackball off the overpass.

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Last year when discussing drivetrain ideas someone walked up to the whiteboard and drew a jet engine on wheels then said "let's put a freaking jet engine on the robot!"

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We've had:

A helicopter
a sportscar
a student in a silver spraypainted box

that's it so far this year =p

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Imagine the robot looks more or less like the mouth of a whale shark. It has little tiny auxiliary wheels to get to the overpass. Somehow, it needs to get a ball off the overpass. Then it mates with the ball and gyros kick in, and from that point on, it balances on top of the ball, using it as a sort of wheel.

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Well, it's settled. Today we decided on our robot design.
The robot is named the Tacobot, the sole reason being that we made the same design during a VEX competition and took pictures with it holding tacos.

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1. For this year: The Hippity Hop bot (Google it)
2. Every year: Our teacher mentor is 5 ft. tall and 120 lbs. She's FIRST legal! She never gets tired of that joke.
3. We were having trouble with our poof bot so considered strapping our electronics on a box and parking it on the ramp for some end game points.

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For all your flying design inquiries, let's not forget to include lower flyby's under the Overpass just to get at least 2 points for crossing your finish lines by having your LAP INDICATOR set off the sensors... ;)

Flying completely over the Overpass (and your finish lines) may cost you the match in the end if you forget that simple way to score points. :p

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One idea that my team thought of was to use some super-powered air-blower thing and blow under the ball. Then, hopefully, Bernoulli's principle would kick in and we'd be able to go around the field with the ball hovering a few feet above us, allowing us to go under the overpasses as the ball went over.

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climb onto the opponent over pass and fend off hurdles....

need I say more?

lol, vivek

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we were thinking of taking our electrathon car and putting a small midget inside

and also a hovercraft

and the craziest one involved someones underwear and a can of spraypaint