Demo Ideas

[PayneTrain]

Thanks for the pictures! That looks pretty sweet. What's the black wire tied on the bot? A tether? Weird color for a tether...

When we were strapped for cash last year, our '09 bot was stripped of all electronics. We've restored everything on the robot to original working condition, sans pesky bumpers that just take up space.

Tank drive and a four button lift/dump mechanism makes it really easy for anyone to drive, and it just functions with such majesty. Probably should swap out the regolith wheels for some standard wheels soon.

Our '11 robot was tons of fun to demo at our Rising Freshmen Night because it's almost as simple: tank drive, five-button grabber and joystick lift, with two button minibot deployment.

'10 was a glorified pizza box on mecanum wheels, and therefore, hard to show off.

[M.Wong]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

Thanks for the pictures! That looks pretty sweet. What's the black wire tied on the bot? A tether? Weird color for a tether...

When we were strapped for cash last year, our '09 bot was stripped of all electronics. We've restored everything on the robot to original working condition, sans pesky bumpers that just take up space.

Tank drive and a four button lift/dump mechanism makes it really easy for anyone to drive, and it just functions with such majesty. Probably should swap out the regolith wheels for some standard wheels soon.

Our '11 robot was tons of fun to demo at our Rising Freshmen Night because it's almost as simple: tank drive, five-button grabber and joystick lift, with two button minibot deployment.

'10 was a glorified pizza box on mecanum wheels, and therefore, hard to show off.

The pictures posted were before its completion. Still looking for some better ones.

[Katie_UPS]

We bring vexbots for kids to drive (and then we play the "go hit that guy in the brown shirt" game). Our demo-bot is our '07 bot. At our last demo (with 1732), we had kids feed tubes to the robot and put them on part of this year's rack. Kids really liked "feeding" the robots.

If you have/sell hexbugs, we sometimes have those running around too.

Also: BUTTON MAKING STATION! Get some extra button supplies and have kids make buttons.

[Hawiian Cadder]

we demo whatever robot we have, hopefully we will be able to keep more robots as i think we have freed up a lot of space. currently we have 2010 and 2011 robots to demo. this years robot is impressive as gets a lot taller than the 2010 robot.

[stundt1]

Is there enough room for driving a robot in a 10x10 area do you think?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by stundt1

Is there enough room for driving a robot in a 10x10 area do you think?

I doubt it. HIGHLY doubt it. 10' by 10' is the size of an FRC pit. You won't be able to do much in terms of driving. Arm movement, sure. Spinning, probably. Doing much else, probably not.

Now, if you can bring a minibot pole, you put the robot facing the wrong way to deploy, spin around, and deploy. That ought to be doable in a 10' square area.

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by stundt1

Is there enough room for driving a robot in a 10x10 area do you think?

In that small a space with an FRC robot we usually play a game of catch with the elementary aged kids.
An arm robot of some type holds a bucket and the kids try to throw orbit or poof balls into it while the drivers bob and weave.
The reward is candy, give aways, or buttons.

We did play golf (putting) with the 2010 soccer robot where the kids could putt against the robot.

In a small space the bigger robots are too dangerous for the kids to drive safely.