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

[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.

[ebmonon36]

I've got the mounting bracket from last years rotating light on 1018. We had a light that rotated up and down to clear the bar, but it kept getting smashed and the servo kept dying so we replaced it and I took the bracket.I was eyeballing other spare parts last time I was home, but didn't take any.

Eric

[Ryan Foley]

lets see,

the drive train from the 2000 robot (with all the motors and wheels)
FP motors from 2003
Complete control system from 2001
6 Victors from our 2000 and 2001 bots, and 4 spikes
The wing from last year
broken wheel mount from 2001
bumper from 2000
2000 rotating light
2001 rotating light
pressure gauge/ switch from 2001
wheels from a training challenge robot from 2003
60A breaker from 2001
fuse panels from 2000 and 2001
joysticks

(and from various FIRST yardsales, 3 gyro sensors, a banner sensor, 1 pump, 30 single solenoids from the pre SMC era, 5 SMC solenoids, pneumatic tubing, suction cups, wheels, wire, DB9 cables, DB15 cables, DB25 cables, DB connectors, LEDs, limit switches, and 7 project boxes)

[Mark Pierce]

Oh course! don't we all?

I've still got spare arms and pulleys from the '99 RoboDAWG that I keep meaning to throw away.