Team 1625 Minibot FIRST Run

[Blusix]

Originally Posted by Chris27

I think the fastest minibots will be some of the simplest minibots. I don't think you need to have a whole lot of tooling capability to make the minibot in the video.

I really don't think you need that much of tooling capability either from what i've seen to what we have done to the mini-bot.

[Chris is me]

Okay seriously - they said the battery was on the minibot. Why are you devoting time and energy into trying as hard as you can to disprove that?

It's a mind-opening minibot that really gets you thinking about what the bare minimum you need for success really is - and that's it.

[pfreivald]

The thing labeled "weight" is a set of vise grips, which they clearly used to clamp on the "win pump" because this is just a prototype and they couldn't be bothered to use a hose clamp.

[Brian Ha]

First off, get it get it! Anyways, First off we need to give these guys a round of applause for even showing their bot and talking to us about it. Second off, our team had a 3 wheel mini bot that had a time of 3-4 seconds this being the latest edition, then they saw yours, took a wheel off and a lot of metal. It seemed at lot faster but me cleaning up cause no one else was, missed it. Anyways I just wanted to say, hands off to winovation, you guys are really inspiring the real world.

Did i spell that right? Winnovation is what i am talking about, the first one has one n the second has two. Which way?!?!

[Leeebowitz]

I'm curious as to whether or not that minibot is still legal given the new ruling on welding. Given that it's Winnovation, I don't think that would be much of an obstacle, whether anything was welded or not.

That said, I had to watch this video soooo many times before I actually believed it.

[Aren_Hill]

Originally Posted by Brian Ha

Did i spell that right? Winnovation is what i am talking about, the first one has one n the second has two. Which way?!?!

Winnovation is right

Originally Posted by Leeebowitz

I'm curious as to whether or not that minibot is still legal given the new ruling on welding. Given that it's Winnovation, I don't think that would be much of an obstacle, whether anything was welded or not.

We did just get a TIG welder in the shop this year, but it wasn't used on the minibot.

[pfreivald]

Solder: Not just for wires!

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by thefro526

I'm just going to go out on a limb and say that Winnovation's deployment mechanism will probably work flawlessly.

They aren't exactly the kind of people that would build one of the fastest minibots and then cheap out on the deployment.

And knowing Winnovation it'll be a mass of linkages. They love their linkages.

As for those who are still trying to find flaws with the minibot:

Originally Posted by Tom Line

Improve yourself. Try not to tear others down.