What to do with old robots?

[Bcahn836]

Originally Posted by Bcahn836

Today I started taking apart our first robot from 2002. I am putting the componets from the robot and putting them into one of those blue rubber maid containers from the 2003 game. And labeling the box "SPARE PARTS". And all scrap metal is being recycled. This years robot is going to be used for demo, and off season competitions.
One robot down two to go. LOL

Just to clairify; we are only "scraping" aluminum, like the frame, base plate, and supports. All other useable componets will be kept.

[crazyone]

Well, our 1999 bot ended up as a star in local play and the other bots remian in semi-tac with peices missing like motors, but they mostly stay together for training and design referencing ie "like we did on the 2002 robot".

[biffy96]

this is are 2 year,list year bot is this year cart. we paint it and tako out the old thing and put new thing

[Bernie]

ahhhhhhhhhh, the confusing-ness. SO MUCH ANTI-GRAMMAR"anti-grammar is now a word". so someone made something using something, somewhere while you painted it, eh? that was rhetorical.

[Bcahn836]

Today I completely finished taking apart the 2002 robot "bee bot". All of the, motors, electronics,pnuematics were kept although a few wires were sacrificed. All of the aluminum in good condition was kept.

Also I finished putting together the 2004 robot. One of the senors took the chips, gears and the bearing blocks off of it for a project and left before he could put it back on. It only took 3 of us 45 min to put it all back together. LOL

[Alex Golec]

find a box for them and put them somewhere, and take them out when they have another use (field testing, opponent to your 04 bot, display of past marvels, etc.) Its always fun to look over the old bots from time to time and get ideas from them. And, for the battle-worn veterans, the scrap box is the usual place for them.

[Goobergunch]

Given that our 2003 robot was just barely functional, we scavenged what we could (which wasn't much, especially after we explained to our mentor that it was against the rules to re-use parts) and then put the remains of the frame in the small room behind the physics room in which we store everything Friarbot-related.

We'll probably (and hopefully) keep our 2004 robot in better shape. For one thing, it still works.

[tiffany34990]

old bots-- for us goes in the a back store room we just cleaned up our pit so we used the old field parts stuff from 2003's game to make shelves to support the bots--

and always simply fix them up and show them and then use parts to make pro-types--and some are simply taken apart--

i think slowly everyone with small spaces is losing room to put their bots--

actually u can give new forming team old bots so they can mess around


enjoy y'all

[ElfMaster]

Last years robot is lying, sadly, in my garage half dismantled and unrecognizable. We basically turned it into a badly done version of this years 'bot. It worked for testing and practicing.

[Matt_Kaplan1902]

Next year will be the 10th anniversary of Team 108. The '03 bot was used for testing autonomous, the '02 and '01 bots are sitting in our shop missing their gearboxes and some electronics. One of our mentors want us to restore all 9 of our old robots and set them up around the Motorola Plant. That means the rest of them are sitting in storage somewhere.



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[Gene F]

I hesitate to post. It may sound like bragging. But in the hopes that other teams can find a way to do the same here it goes. Our team represents four schools from Oconee County SC. The team is run from the county wide career center (The Hamilton Career Center). The Career Center has built a set of display cases specifically for our robots and awards in one of the main halls. There is room for six robots. In addition the county historical society has asked us for the robots when they cycle out of the display case. So HCC-Up, Silver Bullet, Manuel Overdrive, Blitz and D. R. (Doug Robert) all have homes in the display cases. That isn't to say they are always there. We use the most recent ones for demos at all kinds of events. We also use the recent ones for developing autonomous.

Maybe if someone from the Career Center sees this post they will post a picture of the display cases!

[Bcahn836]

Revival of an old thread...

Today I started to take apart our 2004 robot . I am about half way done putting its remains in a stack attack container. We will salvage everything still useful, for next years development and shop projects. Now we are down to our 2003 robot and our 2005 robot. The 03 bot is still together because that is the team favorite, and the 2005 well isn't quite done yet.

Team 114 only has one old robot still semi-functional. That would be last years. Though currently it can't drive or move, as we had to use 2 of its victors for this year's robot.

(edit) It seems we still have a large hunk (hunk being the rusted steel frame) of one of our bots out back.. This must've been from when the team still used steel.

Poseidon, our bot this year, is never going to be scrapped or taken apart. We plan to keep it as a demonstration bot and to show others how crazy of a drive train our team captain designed.

[Scott Chambliss]

It's sad to hear these stories of disassembled robots. While it may be necessary, I hope my team never has to do that. We gave taken a vow to leave the robot as it is. It is as "cute" as a robot can be, and we think that we should keep our team's first robot.

[Jack Jones]

You can make some cash by putting the electronics on eBay.