Most visually appealing robot

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux

I remember team 207 making gorgeous looking robots back to the 2003 / 2004 time frame - http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/15588

1024 has made very consistently bright robots for most of their team's career - http://www.mckenzierobotics.org/wp/robots/

you mean the 2003-2015 timeframe?

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

you mean the 2003-2015 timeframe?

Yes. I first saw them in Arizona in 2003 and was blown away by how great they looked. Most robots looked like piles of 80/20 back then.

[Lil' Lavery]

...our robots still look like piles of 80/20

[Conor Ryan]

Update on my crazy robot hunt.

No update.

I'm combing through archives to find stuff.

Thank You Jason Rudolph for restoring http://firstrobotpics.com back to the improved glory days of firstrobotics.net

I'm currently browsing until i find it. I'm coming for you mystery bot.

[Conor Ryan]

Originally Posted by Conor Ryan

Call me crazy, but here is a tale about a robot that has not been discussed here in a very long time.

On one of the ancient Photo gallery sites that used to hang around here there was once a picture of a robot from a team in ?Arizona? that lasted only one season. I think it was 2004's game, possibly earlier.

The robot was a tall one, with the manipulator designed out of beautiful anodized aluminum elliptical tubing for arms in the front of the robot and I believe it has some graphic design elements that were way ahead of its time. I haven't seen elliptical tubing used like that since.

The last time I saw a picture of this robot it was 2006, since then to my knowledge the server went off line, and I'm not sure if they way back machine has a copy of it.


If anybody can help me find this robot, or even verify the existance of it many green dots will be had. I don't want to sound like a crazy person.

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Conor, are you talking about 60?
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img...5d9bbd33_l.jpg

Originally Posted by Conor Ryan

Nope... wasn't 60. Definitely was a 3 digit team.

Originally Posted by Karthik

Here's a list of teams from Arizona in 2004. Only nine 3-digit teams in the state that season.

https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index....04&area=AZ-USA

Originally Posted by EricH

Forgetting about 254? Particularly in '04.


As far as the mystery team, the only one of the 3-digit AZ teams that isn't still competing is 898--and they weren't a one-and-done, '04 was their final year of 3. IIRC, they preferred a desert camo pattern (and I want to say that they're (one of) the reasons for the lexan on the field sides, after they ended a practice match E-stopped under the stands in '03 having gone under the wire...).


207 should go onto the list--they've always had a very nice-looking robot. There's a reason they're called "Metalcrafters".

Originally Posted by Conor Ryan

Update on my crazy robot hunt.

No update.

I'm combing through archives to find stuff.

Thank You Jason Rudolph for restoring http://firstrobotpics.com back to the improved glory days of firstrobotics.net

I'm currently browsing until i find it. I'm coming for you mystery bot.

Great Scott I think I've found it. Or at least one that vaguely fits my mental description, it was yellow.

Ok the Arizona thing was wrong.
It Was a 3 digit team.
It was 2002, not 2004.
It was not a 1 and done team...

It Was... 910 Foley Freeze in 2002.

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

...our robots still look like piles of 80/20

Nothing wrong with that. I think we see more aesthetically pleasing robots than we used to in FRC due to more teams having access to advanced manufacturing capabilities than ever before. You can also build a pretty sharp looking robot in-house now thanks to some of the COTS solutions on the market that allow teams to spend an extra day or two on graphics and lighting.

[Mitchell1714]

Team 4818 has made very nice green robots their first two years.

[Ginger Power]

Originally Posted by Mitchell1714

Team 4818 has made very nice green robots their first two years.

I got the oppurtunity to work with 4818 this past year. Their team is lightyears beyond what any second year team should be. For reference they had a shifting swerve (with no noticeable bugs) ready to go for a non-Recycle Rush game. Their future is incredibly bright.

[Brandon_L]

2590's 2013 bot, which was a big inspiration for our 2014 bot

[jajabinx124]

Originally Posted by Mitchell1714

Team 4818 has made very nice green robots their first two years.

Originally Posted by Ginger Power

I got the oppurtunity to work with 4818 this past year. Their team is lightyears beyond what any second year team should be. For reference they had a shifting swerve (with no noticeable bugs) ready to go for a non-Recycle Rush game. Their future is incredibly bright.

I agree. 4818 had a beautiful looking robot and an effective one this year. Take a look at their improvements between the Lake superior regional this year and Champs. From just setting 2 uncapped 4/5 stacks on the SZ at Lake superior, to setting 2 capped/noodled 6 stacks and a uncapped 6 stack on the SZ at Champs. Their improvements where phenomenal, and it's unbelievable that they are such a new team.

Can't wait for what 4818 comes up with next year!

[rees2001]

Originally Posted by Karthik

Examples:

2001
2002
2003

They were light years ahead of everyone else when it came to aesthetics.

Not too sure about light years ahead? Maybe A year ahead.

2002
2003
2004

[NWChen]

Seeing FRC robots in person made all their details much more pronounced for me. 973's bot this year, and 2590 in 2014, looked nice in reveal photos/videos but better in person, and even more in action.

Effective controls and automation make bots like 254's and 3310's all the more visually impressive.

[Brad Hanel]

There is a distinct lack of 4039 in this thread.

2015 was my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgmfHsDHyPI

And it's not just their robots, their shirts, pit, and signs are gorgeous as well.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by rees2001

Not too sure about light years ahead? Maybe A year ahead.

2002
2003
2004

I love HOT and I think their robots have always been well designed and highly functional, but those 3 robots don't come close to 60. They're elegant in their own way, but 60 was on a different playing field when it came to executing clean, seamless designs. 60 was also doing that prior to 2001.

[NWChen]

oops - didn't see this before, here's a similar thread.