That poor robot!

[AlexD744]

Originally Posted by Herodotus

I think every year the first joke we make is about building one of the bots from the game animation. The only time I've seen anyone do it is 2008 with 2337 and the kicking bot.

I saw a robot that was the bot that had the lifter of like two columns of indiviual spinner, which lift in between them and then emptied into a basket that dumps. This year it dumped forward and I think it dumped backward into the low goals in 2006 and maybe 2004, i don't know about that one. I chuckled a little that I can notice a video replica robot, but yeah.

[Chris is me]

That bucket robot was Team 2781, the second seed alliance captain at Midwest.

[gorrilla]

we made a Plow-E in 2007
got all the way to the quarter-finals








and due to some "expressive" driving...it did wheelies

[mastachyra]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

That bucket robot was Team 2781, the second seed alliance captain at Midwest.

I am the moderator of 2781 RoboPride. I was not a part of the team in 2009, but I am proud to be moderating the team that has the distinction of building "Buckety". When I saw "Buckety", which is actually named BetaBot, I was surprised by the use of floating pulleys which were only in contact with the belt on their tangent... so pretty much useless.

Buckety has been cannibalized a bit, but it's pretty much intact. I will upload a picture in a bit.

Also, I can't wait to see Plowie in a few weeks.

[Jacob Bendicksen]

Holy thread revival, Batman.

[Foster]

Well at least the new people are reading the back posts :-) That may cut down on the "new" questions in 2015.

[The_ShamWOW88]

Plow-e will have his day....this I have to believe!!

[mastachyra]

On closer inspection, the floating pulleys did serve a purpose. I guess this mechanism was used to lift the balls up into the hopper, so they tensioned the belt a bit.

Anyways, here is BetaBot as she rests today. It's amazing how different the FRC robots have become with the incredible chassis kits that are available.

Here is a link to the 2009 kickoff video. Buckety can be seen at 1:20, and Plowie makes his first appearance at 1:45. He gets slammed into the wall at 2:20.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyER3MrNBZQ

[TedG]

Originally Posted by The_ShamWOW88

Plow-e will have his day....this I have to believe!!

BTW, I believe the robot in question is actually named "Dozer" not "Plow-e".

Maybe he was officially named that after this thread was started, I don't know.

There's another recent thread around here talking about him, with some pictures and discussion of people actually building him.
Look HERE

But I agree..Go Dozer!!
I believe he shined in Breakaway (2010) where he plowed the balls into the goal.

[Whippet]

Originally Posted by TedG

I believe he shined in Breakaway (2010) where he plowed the balls into the goal.

I seem to recall that his truly finest hour was when he won the game animation minibot race and scored 40 points for his alliance.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Whippet

I seem to recall that his truly finest hour was when he won the game animation minibot race and scored 40 points for his alliance.

http://beyondinspection.org/post/972...-dozer-does-it

Dozer's scored points compared to median qualification matches. Courtesy of Mr Chris Picone sitting and watching the last couple year's animations.

[tStano]

Someone built a non-competition robot almost identical to dozer.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ighlight=dozer

[MrBasse]

Originally Posted by tStano

Someone built a non-competition robot almost identical to dozer.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ighlight=dozer

We actually ran that robot at the West Michigan District last year during lunch and got to play with some game pieces. It was incredibly difficult to control the ball with a dozer blade. Oddly enough the eyes kept hitting the ball and knocking it off center. That and the fact that they let us run wireless and there was so much interference on the field that we lost communication every ten seconds or so...

[Alex2614]

Ah, Plowie It's interesting how "versatile" he is. He's used in so many games, and never very useful.

[Caleb Sykes]

Originally Posted by Alex2614

Ah, Plowie It's interesting how "versatile" he is. He's used in so many games, and never very useful.

He's often more useful than the average robot.

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

http://beyondinspection.org/post/972...-dozer-does-it

Dozer's scored points compared to median qualification matches. Courtesy of Mr Chris Picone sitting and watching the last couple year's animations.