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Originally Posted by safiq10
We recently had a sponsor approach us with $500 asking if we could make a showbot that we could show off at all our demos and expo. He needs a list by Friday June 6th....
Any Ideas on what we could do? We are empty on ideas that we could do under $500.
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Check your inventory for spare parts/electronics. If you have an extra control system (or don't intend to keep your 2014 robot functional through the offseason), cannabalize that and use any spare equipment lying around. This allows you to use the $500 for adding cool functionality-- with $500 if you have an old chassis/control system/drive train you can use, you can easily do a t-shirt cannon, a boom-box robot with lots of lights, and have a bit for nice shielding.
If you can't use any of your old components, then I apologize, but you're out of my "FIRST zone" and into the hobbyist robotics zone, which I currently don't have much advice for.