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Unread 01-04-2010, 01:02
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Re: Cannibalizing robots

For the two years I've been on (and evidently in years past too, since we don't have older bots lying around), we've completely disassembled our bot into scrap metal and parts after attending CalGames with it in October. Usually however we keep around a practice bot that is just basic kit chassis + control system, so we can test things on and practice driving and whatnot. We also had a demo/PR bot in years past, but we disassembled it.

I hope we're keeping our Breakaway bot, since it makes a good demo bot (more so than in past years) to replace our old one with. Unfortunately it's not up to me, also if we don't get a new cRIO we'll have to rip it out for 2011.
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