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Originally Posted by Gui Cavalcanti
Well, after taking many pictures we finished... unwrapping... the robot. We have some rather comical damages.
- The light was ripped from the top of the robot, leaving two of it's mounting posts inside the robot. Both domes were shattered, and the reflector lens was ripped off. Ironically, both the normal and replacement lightbulbs are fine 
- A forklift tong went straight through a 40 amp fuse. We got to see inside! Those things are awesome... The 40 amp was about 4 inches from the RC, though, so we're kind of worried... we're going to test the robot as soon as possible.
- Our frame is bent, but we can't tell if that was our driving at Philly or the forklift. I'm thinking half and half
- Our autonomous control panel on the robot was ripped to pieces. The left/right switch has been torn up, and the rotary switch that controlled the autonomous program settings had it's output dial sheared right off.
- There were pistachio shells all over our robot! They rammed our crate and then ate lunch over it!
Anyway, the incident has actually made me happy. Since we have to go to the Maryland State Fair and the Duel on the Delaware still, we're going to build Phoenix, a new robot based off of the drive train and pieces of Functional Decoration that embodies all that we've learned about this game. Woohoo!
Anyone have a replacement light dome set or extra suction cups they'd be willing to give us? Will trade for Fisher-Price motors... |
ok so its been a few years, but i just thought this was worth reviving the thread for:
in 2005 team 422 (now, unfortunently without gui as a fulltime* team member, though he helps tons) we got forklifted AGAIN
not to bad this time though. for the 2005 challenge we had used our leftover weight to put curved 1/8 steel sideshields on the two sides of the robot. we thought if anyone tried to ram us theyd be flipped. that never worked. fortuenntly however, when we saw we had been forklifted yet again, we rushed to discover that one of our sidesheilds had ben hit! they saved the life of TryForce, because the way the dents looked, it might have gone right into the electronics board. so what are the odds that in 2003 and 2005 the same team got beaten down by a forklift?
and gui, if you are reading this, i just want you to know that we still have a huge box full of unused fisher price motors!