QotW [11-09-03]: Buy 'em Fast

[JVN]

Allright, this week's QOTW has a brief story attached to it.

Clarkson University has a "low emission snowmobile team" as part of our SPEED program. Basically, this team buys a sled, and modifies it to be more environmentally friendly. The other day, we were standing around working on FIRST, and their team rolled in the brand new sled.

I think it was Eric who rolled his eyes and jokingly said: "We should get to buy a robot, and just tweak it, enough of this 'from scratch' stuff" (or something along those lines).

This statement made us all think.

Question of the Week 11-09-03:
If you could purchase ANY previous FIRST robot, which would you buy? (and for how much $$$?)
To use as a base for the 2004 season?
To study and reverse engineer?
Or for other purpose?
Let's hear it.



Of course this is a completely hypothetical exercise, we all know the real fun comes from designing and building our own robots!