[MCC] Minimum Competitive Concept 2005

[IKE]

Originally Posted by Taylor

Box on wheels with zip ties touching the ground.

I forgot about the zipties to touch the "triangle of doom". We installed paint brushes.

So as many have realized I picked this year as it was not an easy year to build a super simple robot. That being said, the next level up was not actually that complex, and could be incredily effective. I am very glad that 330 got the early shout out as they are a team that often builds "elegant" designs that are are amazingly effective.

We on 33 started that year with a different MCC (Most Complicated Contraption). It was a double jointed arm, Swerve drive, had the ability to store a bonus tetra, and a super gripper that had like 3 motions... The first event did not go well. We spent eliminations rebuilding the drive train to a 4x4 and benchmarking good manipulators.

While the robot may not be a good MCC, the end effectors that were effective that year were super simple in appearance, but often highly optimized.
Stick and a string, pitch fork, cross with a ball on the end.