Designs that would never work...

[Twstdkittie]

Originally Posted by robolemur1236

lets see...

you can have a giant conveyer-belt bot that can load up every last tetra from human and auto stations, then pulls arms out of the ether to drop them on goals

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a bot that climbs the player station, shoots a zipline to the other side of the field, then traverses that line back and forth to drop tetras?

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arr, weight limits

Mm.... zipline... Hehehehe.

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally Posted by Anchi

he he you guys are nuts.

last year my 1st idea was to make a expanding net that cough all the balls when they dropped. i was told it to be imposable, yet surely enuf there was a team that could catch and dispense every last one of them

[greencactus3]

Originally Posted by Anchi

he he you guys are nuts.

last year my 1st idea was to make a expanding net that cough all the balls when they dropped. i was told it to be imposable, yet surely enuf there was a team that could catch and dispense every last one of them

same here. and also there were more than one too.

[Dark Templar]

Hey why not building an assassin robot!!!
one team would pay another team lots of mula to build a robot with something that could just reach into another robot and rip out all of the wires!!! yes you would be disqualified but hey, your RICH!!! ... lol... of course that goes against the whole gracious professionalism rule... dang

[Conor Ryan]

Originally Posted by Katie Reynolds

hey we did that exact thing for 1403, and we capped the 2x ball too, not to mention we were good at it. Looking back at it i'm suprised not many teams did because if they put together a scoring matrix, they'd see it was the obvious choice


also another rejected design from this year on our team, you have this inflatable ballon, powered through pneumatics that went into the tetra, and inflated to lift it up.

another one rejected by the team, even though it wasn't as bad as the balloon. You have some muscle wire (it becomes stiff when you put an electrical current through it) and use that to grasp a tetra. It was feasable yet ineffecient because of the current draw it would require.

[Kate00]

We spent one whole meeting designing a robot with a "bowl" that would sit just over the centre tetra, keeping others from capping it. It would be attached to our robot by a string, and we would be able to drive around the goal and ward off other robots. Then we realised that it wouldn't do anything for us if the centre goal wasn't capped first, and it would be boring.

We were going to steal the bowl from the cafeteria.

[roboguy #1]

Go catch a giant squid use electrical impulses to activate the mushels and then poof you got a multi arm robot cabable of toshing anything in the field out about 20+ft. It could work two if you could catch a squid.

[roboguy #1]

Also try making a robot that pops up into thre rafters drops a super stiff ultra alien cable and play the claw game.

[Bill_Hancoc]

I always thought that a bot that was based on a SeeSaw that picked up tetras from the Autoloader then fliped over dumping it on the goal would be pretty cool but not really good at grabbing tetras

[JackN]

Ok here it is, you have a robot with an EMP on. In your autonomous you cap 1 or 2 then BOOM . You have enough points game over.

[JackN]

Originally Posted by 1derboy

Ok here it is, you have a robot with an EMP on. In your autonomous you cap 1 or 2 then BOOM . You have enough points game over.

My bad you just fry all their circuits

[JackN]

I also think the Robot needs spinners. You would have the Escalade of Robots.

[Adam Richards]

Actually that happened at one of the first BattleBots games from what I heard... the rules didn't state that they needed to have a robot, so a guy strapped an emp generator to the back of his truck and set it off.

[Éowyn]

Alright, as soon as the kickoff ended, I was thinking "Lets build a robot that goes around the rack and pops all the ringers! We could call it Needlebot!" Of course, gracious professionalism would outlaw this strategy, and the popped ringers still count anyway. Oh well!

[Cuog]

Simply have a lot of suction cups attached to the back of the robot and connect to the wall of the driver station say 14 inches above the ground, then have plates that fold out and alliance partners drive on top, then like a forklift, all 3 robots are lifted 14 inches off the ground too bad there are two really big problems with that