team 230 makes a prototype robot and a competition robot every year. we work on the prototype for half of the six-week build season, finetuning all of the mechanisms and attempting to code.
once the design for the prototype is pretty much set, we work on the final robot. it usually ends up to be a much quicker and neater process, and we always paint our competition bot. as you can see from pictures in our site gallery (
http://shsrobotics.org/05/index.htm), we start off with a bangedup gray bot, and end up with our orange and black extraordinaire.
of course, once the competition bot has been shipped off, we use the prototype for demonstrations and driving practice. in fact, i think our drive team is at the school right now, doing time trials with the human player.
