pic: Fun with Old Robots!

[Pat Fairbank]

Originally Posted by Marc P.

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).

We did the same thing with our 2003 bot - bolted a legless chair to the base, hooked up an old Atari joystick, wired in another two batteries in parallel, and drove it around the school... Taking rides on that robot really made us appreciate all the trouble we took in the programming during build to make it drive smoothly!

All our other robots are in various states of disassembly, except for our 2002 bot - we keep it around because there is not much that impresses non-FIRST people more than a robot shooting a soccer ball 40 feet.