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Re: sphere bot
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Originally Posted by Veselin Kolev
Wouldn't it be the scariest thing ever, if you set your robot down on the playing field. And another team comes up. With a big ball. You ask, what is that?? They say, our robot. It emits a blue glow, their team color. It rolls. It rolls over things. Wouldn’t that be AWESOME?
You mean like this? Okay, so this one has a yellow glow instead of blue, but close enough.



This particular version of the Tumbleweed rover is wind-driven. But there is another variation built by a former FIRST student that now works at Johnson Space Center in Houston that is made entirely of FIRST-legal parts, and is actuively driven/controlled.

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