Robots in hometown parades

[Tom Ore]

We've done the local parade two years in a row now (won the Grand Marshall trophy both years.)

We put 3 old competion robot on a trailer and have some VEX robots to drive around. This year we made a custom robot shaped like a doghouse (we're the Swartdogs.) The doghouse robot was a big hit with the crowd. We used two batteries in parallel and made it through the entire parade - it was about 45 minutes drive time I believe.

In the afternoon we do a demo for 2 hours driving last year's competion robot. Overall, it's a really good event for us.