[EricH]

Originally Posted by Mr.Rush

The robot is currently using the radio from the past two years not the old radio, and even in this design there was a backup battery mounted underneath the rest of the electronics board. We've installed a new "brain" using parts left over from the past two years. [...]
Its good in my opinion to think about the past and understand the odd ball designs that have worked in the past and consider how they differed from the others to push the envelope that much further. Bomb squat is one of those teams who make a good show, Metal emotion back in the day, and who can forget the Overdrive exploits of the robot Tumbleweed.

In other words, there has been a slight redesign for a newer controller. That is good. (I say this because pre-2004, there wasn't even a capability for a backup battery.)

Yes, it is good to think about the past. You can get some great ideas that way. However, you have to re-engineer them to fit current rules. Let's take the 1998, 2001, and 2004 big-ball robots and see how they play Overdrive. They'd do fairly well, with a little rebuilding to comply with ball size. Now use the 2008 motors.