What do you do with a robot at the end of the season?

[droneexpert87]

We melt down our robot and then sell it to a Nicaraguan drug cartel leader. He doesn't speak english, so we can normally do a little bit of finessing and make around a $500 profit.

[Liam133]

Originally Posted by droneexpert87

We melt down our robot and then sell it to a Nicaraguan drug cartel leader. He doesn't speak english, so we can normally do a little bit of finessing and make around a $500 profit.

Nailed it

[smitikshah]

Originally Posted by droneexpert87

We melt down our robot and then sell it to a Nicaraguan drug cartel leader. He doesn't speak english, so we can normally do a little bit of finessing and make around a $500 profit.

Good fundraising idea! Might have to get my team in on this!

In all reality:
In the past we have had to take apart our non-working robot. Last year we used the parts to build an offseason bot. The offseason bot worked wonderfully, so we keep it as a nice piece to tell sponsors and school board about when they visit our lab. This year's bot is being modified for offseason competitions, but we will likely keep that since our budget has gotten much bigger and now allows to buy all new parts every year, and the fact that the robot works for demo purposes.

[jfish872]

Originally Posted by droneexpert87

We melt down our robot and then sell it to a Nicaraguan drug cartel leader. He doesn't speak english, so we can normally do a little bit of finessing and make around a $500 profit.

You could get alot more than 500 for the raw materials in the robot...

But in all honestly, we were planning on competing in off season events, but after that we might just scrounge parts off of it, or keep it to demo at the Maker Faire or something similar.