Robots in hometown parades

[rutzman]

2614 runs in 3 or 4 parades a year.
We modified our 2009 bot to dump candy, and it is controlled by a driver on foot with a backpack carrying the 2009 control system.
Up to three more bots are controlled out of the back of a leading truck that also carries candy refills and batteries. In a dead robot situation, we can load it up into the truck.
Tomorrow, we'll be running 4 robots.

[RayTurner1126]

1126 participated in a parade this past saturday with 1511. 1511 had it hink 2 of their robots driving on the ground, and another 3 on their float. we (1126) had a robot in a small trailer just big enough to turn around on, and we had out posts and repeatedly made logos for the crowd on the pegs (we only had bottom and middle up)

we are also participating in another parade next week, we plan to do the same

we also duct taped an american flag to our alignment spear and had it "wave" to the crowd

[rachelholladay]

This year we took our old (and partly torn apart for parts) 2009 robot to one of our towns Mardi Gras parades. We are from Louisiana, there are several parades a week in February and March, not even getting into the New Orleans ones. Since it was on short notice and during one of the last weeks of build season, we just put the robot in the back of my-car-turned-ghetto-Mardi-Gras-float. Although he didn't run, people still liked seeing a robot covered in beads. We think we are going to do it next year (with way more beads because people are crazy about it) but I am a little worried about driving a robot down a 5 mile Mardi Gras parade route.

Each year team 256 parades one or two of its robots in the Homecoming Parade throughout downtown Willow Glen. A ton of people love it, and we end up getting a lot of people interested in robotics. After the parade we go down Lincoln Avenue (downtown) and let interested people try out the robots. We usually have 2 robots out there, our t-shirt robot where we fire t-shirts to people, and our competition robot for that year, unless there's not much to show off, like previously mentioned.