Reduced-space Demos?

[WEHickok]

Our team has done demos in small areas. It is not easily done with our competition robots. So we developed CASEY (Community Awareness of Science and Education Year-round). You may have seen CASEY near the GM tent at the Competition. CASEY was built with spare parts (you get a lot after nine years in FIRST) and was designed to be a SHOBOT...to entertain. Two if the nice features are that we have are a Speed Switch that will change to program to slow the robot down to half speed...nice for small children. The other is a Kill switch that will shut down the robot when pushed.

The other day CASEY was out of service so we took the HOTBOT to a school in Detroit for a demonstration. We noticed that after you did what the competition bot was designed to do it became boring. With CASEY the kids can easily drive it (and it was designed with wheels that could be run on any surface) and they love to get the balloons that HOT Team members blow up and twist.

We do not take the HOTBOT out much anymore...so space is not much of an issue.