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Re: What is the most ghetto thing you've seen on a robot?
Our 2013 robot, designed to be a 30-point climber, never worked due to poor engineering and a lack of any tangible top-level design. We missed our first couple of qualifications matches just trying to get the thing to pass inspection, and the climbing mechanism was destroyed a couple matches later in a collision with another robot. We ended up building a simple 10-point climber that was held together entirely by zip ties that we broke at the beginning of the match, allowing the robot to climb at the be beginning of the match and literally nothing else. If we tried to do defense, the zip ties would fail prematurely and remove any ability for is to score points. (Un)fortunately,I am not aware of any existing photographs or videos of said robot.
Our 2014 entry was far more effective, but looked even more poorly constructed:
https://youtu.be/QDLsJxaACUA
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2010: FRC 3043, Build Assistant
2011: FRC 3043, Head of Minibot subteam; FLL 12762, Team Captain
2012: FRC 3043, Electrical; FLL 12762, Team Captain; FTC 5670, Team Captain
2013: FRC 4301, Electrical, Team Co-Captain
2014: FRC 4301, Electrical/Programming, Team Co-Captain
2015: FRC 4301, Electrical/Programming, Team Captain
2016: FRC 4301, Chief Technical Officer; FTC 10860, 10861, and 11004: Mentor. Winner, Hub City Regional (3310 & 4063)
Last edited by Whippet : 09-03-2016 at 19:41.
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