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Re: Robots after the competition

See if you can find a nearby team that could temporarily store your robot without dismantling until you can find a new mentor or sponsor that can help you out. If you had your state listed someone would probably volunteer or CD'ers could suggest someone!:)

Old robots are a very necessary part of any recruitment, outreach, and they provide an example for building new robots; a point that you can improve for next year.

Your best bet to convince the admins of the worth of the program and the utility of having the old robot around. Show them this thread!

Re: Robots after the competition

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Originally Posted by MarcD79 (Post 842560)

Did the school pay for all the supplies, metal, aluminum, or do you have a sponsor outside of school who donated materials, machined parts? If they did not pay for all the materials, they have no business insisting on having it disposed.

All of our matierials were bought by families and students. The school really does not care.

Re: Robots after the competition

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Originally Posted by AlexD744 (Post 842573)

I'm sorry but if it weren't for our 2006 ad 2005 robot we wouldn't have this years regional final robot. Every robot you keep helps your team prosper. We use our other robots for practice and demonstrations. Without them I can't imagine us as regional finalists. I say you need to get your current lead mentor to find a replacement immediaately. Then, they need to get your principle to see the importance of robotics no matter what. It is extremely valueable. Maybe a student can house the robot until this is figured out. I would love to store a robot at my house (It might even be my senior wish). Anyway, I can't stand to see a team break apart because of the administration. Are you going to nationals?

We are not going to nationals unfortuanatly our school would not pay and the families of our 4 person team had already payed for a lot.

Re: Robots after the competition

If you can convert it to a T-shirt launcher, see if you can also make it drivable via camera, and launch a couple team T-shirts "in the general direction of" the school administration, the physics teachers, and people of that nature at low power.

Other suggestions: For a T-shirt launcher, see if you can scrounge up another compressor and a really old pneumatics tank. There are some pretty big ones that were FRC-legal many years ago (before 2001), and someone like 25 may still have one. You'll need plenty of capacity for lots of shots... Then, if you can figure up a method for a multi-barreled one or a revolver type, you just might have a chance. Color it in school colors. Then show the administration. Teach THEM how to operate it, so that when the team folds because they don't offer any support and the last of the current students graduate, THEY can drive it and use it.

And for some ideas on T-shirt launchers:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/32328
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/33464 (And if you follow my suggestion on the accumulator, PVC *might* be safe, though I'll suggest using something that can take air pressure for the barrel anyway.)
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/31867 (The big black thing in the middle is the old-style tank I was talking about earlier.)
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/30897 is the CAD of the launcher used in the first picture.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/29127

There are more, trust me, but these ought to get the creative juices flowing. (Search CD-Media with the term "T-shirt".)

Oh, and if the team continues for another year, get an IFI system if you don't have one and install that in the launcher when you take out the cRIO.