Best in show at NH Regional was ....?

[Ryan Foley]

Originally Posted by Paradox1350

Haha, our team has concluded that OUR bot was the most 'ghetto' looking bot there. Having built it with a few hacksaws, 2 handdrills, and an angle grinder (we didn't even have a hammer until week 4) we made something that works, but it doesn't look well machined. And that's because it's not. We'll be the first to say that the only thing special about our bot is all the hard work that went into it. And even that is duplicated in other teams.

Lol. It's great when a team can look at their bot and even though it may not be as amazing as some of the stuff you see at competitions, they dont care.

Not trying to start a debate here, but I think that we on 350 had the most "ghetto" robot. Using metal and wood on one bot, heck, our ball collector was half metal, half warped bargain wood from the "$0.50 wood" pile at Home Depot. Fixing all of the broken wood beams with string and zip ties. Using parts after our recently scraped arm as blockers to keep us from entering the corral.

I have 3 favorite bots from the BAE competition. 131 for their elegant looking bot that had the coolest drive train. I loved their hanging method too, they couldnt drift back down to the floor when power was cut off. 69 was just plain awesome. 1073 was amazingly small, fast, and effective at ball herding.