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Originally Posted by Figment
I personally think disassembling a robot is a bad idea, because they have a lot of memories that go with them. Like I said, as a mentor who was once on the team, it is great to go back and see all the robots I helped with and remember the good times I had with them. Keep them somewhere, even if you have to put them in your own garage or something.
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This is one thing that has somewhat bothered me about having to kill previous robots all the time; you can explain to the club how "back in such and such a year, this worked out well", but even with the few pictures we have of them new members just can't get a sense of how the robot truly worked. Of course there were some robots we were more than happy to destroy (namely the 2003 one). Storage will always be a problem for us I think though, so I'm pretty sure we'll have to continue this way.
For teams that have robots from before 2004, how effective are the RC and OI on them for testing with the kind of things we do now? We have 3 sets of controls from those years sitting around that could be used to build a robot, but no remaining member (and maybe 1 mentor) has experience programming them, and I'm not quite sure if they'd be worth the hassle to learn so that we could use them.