keeeping older robots???

[Andrew Dahl]

How do teams that have been in this for a couple of years deal with pas year robots-

our 1st year was 2000 and we took that robot apart because it gave its all duirng a post season runabout and went to the junkyard in the sky


what do teams do with their old robots??


dahl
497

[Joel J]

Most of our "ancient" robots were stripped for parts, down to the very frame, which remains in our Practice Facility for now.

Our robot.....hmmm our last year robot is in a storage room in our school basement with all these junk our school keeps. I guess our school thinks our robot is junk.

Jeff Wong

[Steve Prairie]

Its so hard to "scrap" past year robots...

We work so hard for 6 weeks to design and build the thing. Then we try our best to win with it. And at the end of the season we say, "thanks for the memories... good bye".

It is for the greater good though, next year's robot needs this year's "brain". At least part of the robot will always lives on.

Steve Prairie
RAGE 173

R.I.P "Hanging Dragon" - 2000

[Bill Gold]

We keep our old robots intact after the competitions, but we don't do anything with them. They just collect dust and serve as reminders of how stupid we were in our first couple years

[P.J. Baker]

At least once in the 3 years that I have been doing this, team 177 has fired up every machine from '96 on for prototyping, driver training or sparring. This year we constructed a practice machine from the base of the '97 machine, the arm from the '98 machine, and part of the end-effector from the '99 machine. You can see it behind our twin machine in the included picture.

P.J.

[Joe Ross]

We took apart our 98 and 99 robots for scrap. The 97 robot is probably in storage somewhere at JPL, at least that was the last I heard about it.

We saved last year's robot and practiced balancing with it for a few weeks, until we killed the drive system. We decided it wasn't worth fixing, so the robot is basically dead.

[Jason Rudolph]

We scrapped parts from our first robot. But after that, we keep the old ones around for practice, and as a reminder to the past for us, and to show the newcomers where we came from.

[Clark Gilbert]

We have a Technokat "Museum" of robots from the past years. They are all lined up right at the enterance of our shop. Also we use some of them for testing.


Clark

[Ameya]

Until this year, the previous year's robot was scrapped and scavenged for parts. But Spike 3 (last year's robot) did so well (winning both the Mid-Atlantic Regional and the Philadelphia Alliance Regional) that no one wanted to scrap it. So Spike 3 lives on, and just yesterday we demonstrated both Spike 3 and Spike 4. And I got to drive for a while.

Hey, this edit feature is fun!

[Justin]

Well,

I can say from expirence that I wish that our team had kept our robots intact. Of course I know that nobody every uses old robot parts for the current robot cuz that would just be against the rules. However, for various reasons, our 1996 robot got dismantled. It was never returned to it's full glory and working state..right now it is mearly a display piece in FIRST Place...and I doubt as if it will ever be in the hands of a Blue Lightning team member again. While I do like the fact that it is being honored in FIRST Place...the only way u'd ever know it's story is if someone who knew it were there to tell you. So I hope that teams out there who have championship robots will keep them intact, and perhaps even find a place of honor for them. I admire the teams who have like thier last 7 robots functioning, or @ least still physically intact and lined up on thier practice field...I think that is very cool. Alas though Hexcalibur is but a mere memory now...that can be visited @ FIRST Place.

-Justin

[Lora Knepper]

When I was still with 69, I saw most of our old bots stripped to give life to the new prototypes of the upcoming season. Sometimes they made it back mostly together, but they always looked like a mess from their former glory. This one, the 1998 (my baby!) took the brunt of the dismemberment to give life to the 1999 "Trashcan".



1998 Boston Museum of Science Demonstration

[Matt Ryan]

Originally posted by Lora Knepper
When I was still with 69, I saw most of our old bots stripped to give life to the new prototypes of the upcoming season. Sometimes they made it back mostly together, but they always looked like a mess from their former glory. This one, the 1998 (my baby!) took the brunt of the dismemberment to give life to the 1999 "Trashcan".



1998 Boston Museum of Science Demonstration

TRASHCAN?!?

How could you call Sharpie 2000 a "trashcan"???

[Lora Knepper]

Matt --- the 1998 bot was torn apart more than the rest. The 1999 (the year right after 1998...) was the year of the "trashcan on treads" ... I mean really..that's what it looked like, and what even the engineers called it!



"The Trashcan on Treads - 1999 (Sharpie II)"

We were good with the floppies though

~ lora

[mpking]

Well, we've been a mixed bag.

1996, We have the main front panel remaining.

1997 is still in it's final form from 1997's Rumble at the Rock. Many pieces. (a harder fought second place I have yet to see, we came with a robot, and left with 3 very large peices)

1998 was dismantled to help prototype 1999. Only the side panels remain.

1999 is pretty close to final form, minus a brains.

2000 is in final form, and was used to spar against 2001

2001 is now on the lecture circuit, milking the school system for new team member before they even hit High School.

The robots, and what's left of them, are at a new room that our team secured from a closed school in our school system. I'm thinking it's our new build room.

Actually, we were requested if we could donate 1999 to First place about 2 years ago. I wonder if the offer is still open, Because the current team members feel we should have.

PS, this is my first post also