After Season Projects

[Amanda M]

Well, our team does a lot of stuff.

First off is our annual LEGO League Summer Camp, where we take parts of old FLL games, make our own and have elementary kids from around the county play it.

Then we have parades and such where we drive our robots down the street.

After that we start our pre-season machining. Last year we made 20 or so steam engines that work off the robot air compressor that you get in the kit. We're giving them out as awards.

I do marketing. Any questions about our marketing strategies, IM me. I don't want to change the subject on this thread.

I hope this has been helpful!

mandy

[CyberWolf_22]

We plan to use our fisher price motors to build fake segways as we can not afford real ones. One of them may have a gyro to stabilize but probably just casters. We have never used those motors so we have six in the shop (traded two).

[JakeGallagher]

Originally Posted by CyberWolf_22

We plan to use our fisher price motors to build fake segways as we can not afford real ones. One of them may have a gyro to stabilize but probably just casters. We have never used those motors so we have six in the shop (traded two).

That sounds really cool. I wish I had a segway (or even a custom-made knockoff ). When you get that done, send me some pics at the email mentioned above!
Anyone else have anything like this they would like to share?

[sanddrag]

I'm doing a gyro and software balanced fakeway and will be done by mid-May. At the start of the LA regional, we started designing a robot that will show people around a museum in India, that has to ship in a couple weeks. And a few days ago I started next year's shifting transmission design (which is almost done in Inventor) which we will be implementing for an off-season event like IRI. 12.5" Omniwheels may be a possibility as well.

[JakeGallagher]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

I'm doing a gyro and software balanced fakeway and will be done by mid-May. At the start of the LA regional, we started designing a robot that will show people around a museum in India, that has to ship in a couple weeks. And a few days ago I started next year's shifting transmission design (which is almost done in Inventor) which we will be implementing for an off-season event like IRI. 12.5" Omniwheels may be a possibility as well.

Shifting transmission, eh? o.O that's really cool. If it weren't something that might be a team secret, I'd ask how you're doing it. Know what would be really cool though? Send us the specs of your fakeway whenever you're done with it. I'm sure there are plenty of people out there (like myself) who would love to build one of their own, and that's what Recycled FIRST is going to be about--sharing ingenius ideas that aren't completely competition oriented.

[Ryan F.]

I was wondering if anyone had any good pneumatics projects for someone wanting to learn. That's something I've really wanted to learn, but I've had no oppurtunity. We have this giant stack of Pneumatics equiptment in the back of our room. I'm also building a knockoff of Swampthings hovering robot (thanks for the great design idea).

Our team seems to disappear during the off-season, and then restart a little after school starts. something I'm hoping will change this year.

[Pat Roche]

[quote=rforystek]I was wondering if anyone had any good pneumatics projects for someone wanting to learn. That's something I've really wanted to learn, but I've had no oppurtunity. We have this giant stack of Pneumatics equiptment in the back of our room. I'm also building a knockoff of Swampthings hovering robot (thanks for the great design idea).

Our team seems to disappear during the off-season, and then restart a little after school starts. something I'm hoping will change this year.[/QUOTE


Not to limit people but i think what we are trying to get out of this post is some ideas like swampthings hovering robot. I know this year our team made our pit from all the PVC we had left over from 2001 and 2002. I know in the past ive heard ideas like a team building a pnuematic machine that crushes soda cans and they gave it to a local recyling center. Thats more along the lines of what we are looking for.....all ideas are still welcome. Please dont hold back criticism on the idea of the site either....this is sorta like the whole CD and FIRST community responding to this idea.

-Thanks

Pat

[Combat Chuck]

In the off season, we compete in the BEST Robotics competition. This is a fun competition for or team and a good way to introduce team members to robotics. We are also currently building miniature robotic submarines that grab washers off the bottom of a tank of water and then place them in a bucket.