do you have any part of previous years robots in your house

[Alex Cormier]

do you guys and gilrs have any part of previous years robots in your house or bedroom? i know i do, i one of the bumpers form last year that i made.

Yes...yes I do. LOL.

Last year our robot had "wings" to push the bins over with and I happened to be on that subteam. Well...at the end of the year they awarded every student who was part of B^4 (Bob's Baracade Bin Busters) an award with a mini-wing on it.

I also have a few spare peices floating around somewhere too which is odd since I am the least mechinical person on my team.

[Arefin Bari]

my room is full wtih gears that i have machined before... they are all on my walls as display... and the gears that we have used on our bot last year...among all there are some which teeth is gone... its shaved... (its our tranny's fault)... also got some gearbox... mm... wheels from the robot... if i can find and think of something else i will edit it...

[SlickChicFallen]

I do, actually...

it's called SMITE. It was originally going to be a goal grabber from 2001's game, but we didn't use it, so I took it, modified it, and now use it as a Discouraging tool (discourage people from PDA in the robo lab, discourage free-loaders (food), etc etc etc, hehe)

[ngreen]

No, but I have part of another robot.

We shattered a teams Lexan side last year in our first practice match. They ran into us on the ramp. I kept a small piece of the shattered Lexan. It ended up being kind of a lucky charm of sorts.

[Katie Reynolds]

*points to title*

I got a wheel!

As a going away present *sniff* this past January, I got a wheel from last year's robot. It's signed by everyone!

[Ian W.]

I have some random stuff floating around. Nothing too big though, although the past two summers I've had a robot residing in my garage.

[Jay H 237]

I actually don't have anything from our robot. I did store a robot at my house temporarily (between demos in the off season) and I did have a lot of raw materials (aluminum, steel, pvc pipe, ect.) stored in my garage laying under my Mustang when we lost our storage space but I brought all that stuff to our school by the time spring came and I wanted to get the Mustang out. I do have a lot of other stuff that was discarded from where I work like pnuematics and electrical. This comes in handy when I decorate for Halloween. I have a pnuematic cylinder with a 1 1/2" bore and a 6 foot stroke which is good for hiding behind the shrubs with a ghost attached to it. When the kids come up the sidewalk to the door all I have to do is fire the cylinder and the ghost pops up from behind the shrubs. The cylinder was originally used on a pnuematically driven axis for a injection molding robot.

[Ashley Weed]

I don't get to have robots spend the night anymore *sniff* I miss FIRST and my team so much. It's been a really long year with no Robotics, and I dread each day. I used to have robots in and out of my place all the time, sometimes even two at a time prior to, betwee, and after PR events, shows, and post season competitions.

[KenWittlief]

does a whole robot count? our team doesnt have permanant storage or a year round site, so after our last event we need to disperse the possesions of the team across the mentors

and everyone ends up with a stack of containers or a robot in one corner of their garage or basement

(Shhhhhhh! dont tell my wife - she thinks thats my sailing gear! :^)

[kid robusto]

i have a pile of motors, pnumatics, tubing, and a crapload of other parts from as far back as 4 years ago.

this is becasue last year or was it two years ago, our someone on our team threw away a whole bunch of stuff, so i grabbed all that i could stuff into my back pack, and tape to it, and carry away

I have a belt from our robot that snapped last year at IRI...not much use for a broken belt and last year the drive team from team 128 ripped off the treads they put around their wheels (for extra traction) and gave me and some other people a piece of it. Our belt is hanging right above my head and the other piece sits in front of my monitor

[Cory]

I found a broken radio in my desk drawer the other day.

Cory

[Aaron Lussier]

I have a wheel from our 2002 bot. I pratically made the thing by myself, so it very special to me.

-Aaron

[Pat McCarthy]

From the 2003 HOTBOT:
- a bent front axel
- the first verson of our indicator that told the drivers the stack was being held securely (It later was replaced by a pot.)

And I was given an old window wiper motor from our OCCRA junk.

-Pat McCarthy
HOT Team Webmaster