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I saw a robot that was the bot that had the lifter of like two columns of indiviual spinner, which lift in between them and then emptied into a basket that dumps. This year it dumped forward and I think it dumped backward into the low goals in 2006 and maybe 2004, i don't know about that one. I chuckled a little that I can notice a video replica robot, but yeah.

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That bucket robot was Team 2781, the second seed alliance captain at Midwest.

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we made a Plow-E in 2007
got all the way to the quarter-finals








and due to some "expressive" driving...it did wheelies :rolleyes:

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I am the moderator of 2781 RoboPride. I was not a part of the team in 2009, but I am proud to be moderating the team that has the distinction of building "Buckety". When I saw "Buckety", which is actually named BetaBot, I was surprised by the use of floating pulleys which were only in contact with the belt on their tangent... so pretty much useless.

Buckety has been cannibalized a bit, but it's pretty much intact. I will upload a picture in a bit.

Also, I can't wait to see Plowie in a few weeks.

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Holy thread revival, Batman.

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Well at least the new people are reading the back posts :-) That may cut down on the "new" questions in 2015. :rolleyes:

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Plow-e will have his day....this I have to believe!!

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On closer inspection, the floating pulleys did serve a purpose. I guess this mechanism was used to lift the balls up into the hopper, so they tensioned the belt a bit.

Anyways, here is BetaBot as she rests today. It's amazing how different the FRC robots have become with the incredible chassis kits that are available.

Here is a link to the 2009 kickoff video. Buckety can be seen at 1:20, and Plowie makes his first appearance at 1:45. He gets slammed into the wall at 2:20.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyER3MrNBZQ

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BTW, I believe the robot in question is actually named "Dozer" not "Plow-e".

Maybe he was officially named that after this thread was started, I don't know.

There's another recent thread around here talking about him, with some pictures and discussion of people actually building him.
Look HERE

But I agree..Go Dozer!!
I believe he shined in Breakaway (2010) where he plowed the balls into the goal.

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I seem to recall that his truly finest hour was when he won the game animation minibot race and scored 40 points for his alliance.

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http://beyondinspection.org/post/972...-dozer-does-it

Dozer's scored points compared to median qualification matches. Courtesy of Mr Chris Picone sitting and watching the last couple year's animations.

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Someone built a non-competition robot almost identical to dozer.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ighlight=dozer

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We actually ran that robot at the West Michigan District last year during lunch and got to play with some game pieces. It was incredibly difficult to control the ball with a dozer blade. Oddly enough the eyes kept hitting the ball and knocking it off center. That and the fact that they let us run wireless and there was so much interference on the field that we lost communication every ten seconds or so...

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Ah, Plowie :) It's interesting how "versatile" he is. He's used in so many games, and never very useful.

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He's often more useful than the average robot.