[johnwiens]

The idea of building a spider robot came up after another team mate and I decided that would should try and take our 2015 robot and go trick or treating with it. This idea in turn was sparked by our parents not allowing us to go trick or treating because we were "too old". However, when we realised that the robot would be unable to climb stairs and get to the candy we decided to change to passing out candy would still be a fun way to take a robot out on Halloween.

The entire idea of the spider bot was thought up and assembled in the week prior to Halloween. The spider itself was built mostly Halloween afternoon in 2 or so hours. Prior to this, however, we had a fully operation chassis and that was constructed last year prior to the season.