FRC Team Strengths

[Chris is me]

I'm always up to brag about my team

We aim to excel at simplicity. It drives everything we do, from design to award submissions to team organization. Our team motto is “In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Along those lines, we aim for minimalism. In 2010 we weighed in at 105 pounds minimum, and in 2011 we were as low as 95 pounds. This is BEFORE deliberate lightening.

I think I'm the only person on the team who still remembers what it's like to be paranoid about weight. That's probably not a good thing. Maybe I'll just tell everyone on the team that the weight limit is 100 pounds next year.

[IndySam]

A few other Indiana teams:

71 - Amazing at always good at finding the "thing" that wins the game.

234 - Beautiful CAD and construction that's also functional and reliable.

1501- Monocoque construction that's always unique and practical.

[sgreco]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

I'm always up to brag about my team

Me too (even though my team doesn't have a whole lot to brag about competitively).

My team made cylindrical wheel modules for our swerve drive in 2009. It was probably the coolest subsystem we've ever built.

http://alarmrobotics.wikispaces.com/Swerve+Design+09

[dag0620]

Although it's never something we've set out to do, my teams many years has an interesting way of Identifying our robot. We've done crazy light arrays, cool banners or flags, and of course our 2010 Iconic wave that we had on top of the robot.

[lemiant]

Originally Posted by dag0620

Although it's never something we've set out to do, my teams many years has an interesting way of Identifying our robot. We've done crazy light arrays, cool banners or flags, and of course our 2010 Iconic wave that we had on top of the robot.

Those are absolutely gorgeous, how did you make them?

[Peyton Yeung]

I know 1501's machine is typically full of rivets

[Frenchie461]

461 is really good at being finalists

[Peter Matteson]

Originally Posted by Frenchie461

461 is really good at being finalists

So is team 40.

[nikeairmancurry]

177 has pretty much figured out how to get a bye to get to Einstein each year...

My team has always found a way to find a weird way to approach the game...

[R1ffSurf3r]

I think we are pretty good at procrastinating

[J93Wagner]

As to what Team 93 is really good at? Um. I really don't know. Perhaps the best answer is that we're an all-around team that is pretty consistent in competing at the regional level from year to year (at least the past 5-6 years as far as I'm aware). Unfortunately, consistent isn't going to be enough in the future as competition ramps up.

Eh, oh well. Looks like we're going to have a new challenge we have to meet!

EDIT: Actually, on second thought, the one thing we do have that I would call exceptional would be our business sub-team.

[BX MARK]

On1023we build our robots out of 80/20 (with the exception of 2009). We do this because it is what is available to us (through our sponsor). It’s defiantly not the easiest thing to work with but we always figure out a way to make it work.

[Bjenks548]

548 is always best in the tube years. 2007 was our most successfully year since 2002. Also 2011 was our most successful year ever. We are also very good at making lots of drive trains, in 2010 we made 11 total i believe.

[V_Chip]

Originally Posted by R1ffSurf3r

I think we are pretty good at procrastinating

I'm going to second that; we're pretty good at it too.

[J93Wagner]

Originally Posted by V_Chip

I'm going to second that; we're pretty good at it too.

I'll third that actually, although we (the mechanical sub-team that is) seem to have at least gotten it partially together last season.