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Re: Would you or your team ever sell your old robot(s)?

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Originally Posted by Bharat Nain
I don't think Team 25 would ever sell their robots because some of them are legend - atleast to us because they have taken us upto the Einstein field and we have put in an incredible amount work planning, prototyping, THINKING ABOUT IT and ofcourse building.
The status of our machines- We have six years of currently working machines. Each year the current pit crew is put to the task of evaluating them and repairing whatever has broken or is worn out. Generally the stuff broken on them is due to rough competition or simple wearing out. We use the robots a lot.

2000- Cradle Robber- still intact and fully functional- was a great trainer for capping this year

2001- Robo Kong- we haven't used it in a while but the only mech problem is a damaged tether port. Other than that it works

2002- Silver Scorpion- intact except for the brakes- we took them off to replicate others for the later bots. Other than that all is working

2003- Evil Machine 1- intact but modified- we loaned this one to pre rookies for the spring games and we made it dump tetras. It works but has a few age issues. The pneumatics need some work.

2004- Evil Machine 2- fully functional - it too was modified for a pre-rookie to play in the off season and the arm is a great capper.

2005- machine without a name- of course it is still functioning and on its way to play at IRI right now

We could always use new sending and receiving antennae and the tether cables we had seem to walk away......

I suggest that instead of taking apart the old machines that you find a pre-rookie school and work with them to modify an old machine to play the off season games. Then by the time they get their first kit in January they already have some experience and enthusiasm for the program.

Storage- we have a small room at our HS. A local company gave us a donation of some used pallet racks and we built tiered decks for the machines. We have room for 10 now-


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