pic: Fun with Old Robots!

[Marc P.]

Actually, this particular robot was destined for a trash dumpster, electronics and all. After we lost our sponsor, we had to clean out our old space, including old robots. There were only a few of us there to clean up, and no one was willing to give these fine robots a home. I couldn't let the first robot I'd helped build end up in a trash heap, especially with a complete control system. I took it to school, and fixed it up in my office (I was the AV nerd of the school, so they gave me an office), and rode it around the school (so yeah, that's me driving it).

It actually worked quite well, I used it a few times to move our big TV production cart around the school, to set up for live broadcast events on our school's community access cable channel. Tied a rope from the back of the robot to the side of the cart, and drove away. Good times.

What does everyone else do with their old robots?