Halloween Fun!

[HighlandersFRC]

This Highlanders, #4499, wanted to have a little fun with their practice bot so they decided to "dress" the robot up for some fun on Halloween. Instead of getting candy, they walked the neighborhood and handed it out! The robot was such a hit and they ran out of candy and had a ton of little kids wondering how they can build their own robot! Did anyone else "dress" up their robot?

See a short video on our YouTube site:
https://youtu.be/lM1uZP5353I

[*Rachelle*]

Put that in a haunted house that's pretty awesome, nice job!

[BBray_T1296]

Would have been funny if that was the 2014 bot and you used it as a candy catapult

[Zac Schofield]

Does a LAN party in a basement count as "Halloween Fun"? Since that's what my friends and I did on Halloween.

[D_Price]

Very neat idea and the fact that you guys are getting little kids "thinking" about building or designing something is a plus!

[Bob Steele]

Great idea and way to get kids interested in building robots and technology!!
You guys rock!!

[logank013]

Drive system? Mecanum, Swerve, or any other drive enabling to go sideways would be very cool.

[johnwiens]

Thank you for all of the nice comments, We had fun building this robot. It would have been cool to do mecanum, however it would ruin the wheels to drive on the concrete streets in the neighborhood.

[Big Ideas]

Originally Posted by D_Price

Very neat idea and the fact that you guys are getting little kids "thinking" about building or designing something is a plus!

Great example of:
HAVE IDEA>>>Make it HAPPEN

How much calendar time from Idea to Spider?
How much work time?

Inspiration looks like many things! Thanks for inspiring US!

[johnr]

Nice. Next year add a can of silly string.

[johnwiens]

The idea of building a spider robot came up after another team mate and I decided that would should try and take our 2015 robot and go trick or treating with it. This idea in turn was sparked by our parents not allowing us to go trick or treating because we were "too old". However, when we realised that the robot would be unable to climb stairs and get to the candy we decided to change to passing out candy would still be a fun way to take a robot out on Halloween.

The entire idea of the spider bot was thought up and assembled in the week prior to Halloween. The spider itself was built mostly Halloween afternoon in 2 or so hours. Prior to this, however, we had a fully operation chassis and that was constructed last year prior to the season.

[lpickett]

This would be a great idea for trunk or treat at church next year. We usually have Cowtown Throwdown that weekened, but if this is on another day, we could possibly hand out. Our church has cars in the parking lot, but also games in the gym. This would be a great idea.