pic: Classic Robot Restoration

[mrmummert]

Never say die when it comes to old robots. Our first robot from
2005 was gutted twice for parts...first in 2008 and then again last year.
Between last year and this years build season I managed to put it back
together (I had promised our team lead we'd put it back together after all.)
and I was the only one interested (not to mention the only one with a little
bit of time) who worked on it. I got it to run again manually (all the original
code was gone) and another team mentor put the old 2005 default code
in it so we can at least drive it. Perhaps some day we'll find the copy of its
original code and put it back in or maybe someone will write new code for it.
At least for now it drives.

Our 2010 robot was a little like the one 2783 had. We had the same problem.
We wanted it to drive, kick and hang but we barely got it to drive.
Some of us have called it "the brick" from time to time (in competition it did'nt
even drive some times) after last years season we finally got it to kick and hang.
Most on the team from last year were very disappointed in it and for this year we took the
C-Rio out for use in our 2007 robot
(since that one was so much like this years) Speaking of which...

All of our old robots still run , the only exceptions are 2007 which has to have the
old control system reinstalled (we put last years C-Rio in it so we could have a robot
like this years so we could practice and program after ship date), and 2010 which has
to have a few parts put back in that were gutted for spares for this years competition.