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FRC #0358 (Robotic Eagles)
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Rookie Year: 2002
Location: Hauppauge, Long Island, NY
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Re: How old is your oldest robot

Our 2003 robot is still actively used, primarily as a testing/demonstration base for the past two FRC control system changes (2009 & 2015). We still have the complete original control system, too.

We have most other year's still operational in their original configurations:
2004, 2005, 2008 thru 2015. Most of the older robots all served in demonstrations for many years.

The regularly active robots are 2003 (testbed/demo), 2010 (rookie loaner, bring students to work days, SBPLI golf fundraisers), and 2012 (mostly throws candy during Homecoming parades or Safe Halloween, but also for the annual middle school science fair, and assisted living outreach).

A couple of years we just kept the unique manipulator: 2006 shooter, 2007 articulated arm.
The 2007 base permanently went to a rookie team to help them get started.

Our earliest robots had the electronics removed for later robots, but the mechanical shells are still around.
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