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

[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

[[nx]01]

I've got a rotating light, a victor, and the casing and magnets from a chipperwohl (sp?) motor.

Pulled it all out of the bad parts bin at Small Parts in Houston. (I was one of the guys working there) We had a lot of fun with that chipperwohl motor magnet...we magnetized all of the scissors at Small Parts, and de-magnetized this one guy's hotel key...

[Jon K.]

I have part of the blue lens cover we smashed in Long Island last year, and I have part of this years bot too. At the UTC regional they cut off part of our front to get the ball grabber working better so they gave me the pieces since it was the top of the bulldog that I had worked on to get CNC'ed(I also have the same piece from our practice bot becuase they just chopped that off last night.)

Also our coach this year has the hand from our 02' bot because it was her hand shrunk to 60% of its original size.

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by [nx]01

de-magnetized this one guy's hotel key...

so you're the one who did that to my key..jeesh thanks..

haha j/k that is funny do that to some guy

[MisterX]

I got 1.6 pounds of "useless" weight cutt off of last years "OPPS!!!!!" sitting on my bed stand with a little plaque that I still need to put on to commemorate and remember the worst of times along with the best of times (though nobody is taking a saw to this years robot I'll have to settle for a picture or a piece of prototype)!

[Wetzel]

I've part of Heartburns 2003 robot, and random parts of old 116 robots. I had a 30 lb sliding lift system for awhile. They cleaned shop viciously last summer and I saved some things.


Wetzel

[kjohnson]

All our robots are still together sitting at school - all in working condition. We used last years to help practice for this years (used to push balls). The only parts we would be able to get are scraps from something that we didnt like and had to take off.