Would you or your team ever sell your old robot(s)?

[Anthony]

Robots from past years still in one piece? What an amazing concept. Our robots always get cannibalized either in the off season while teaching the new students about building robots or during the build season while the programmers need a test bed for code and such and the current bot isn't running. We have several frames laying around, but we find the parts all to useful for other things. Not to mention, during the off season we like to show off our past creations in attempts of gaining sponsors and enlightening younger students (particularly elementary and middle school age groups). As we get more and more robots, we will quickly run out of room for them (assuming they remain in one piece). However, so long as we retain the photos and the CAD drawings and the important parts (the bumpers that were banged up within 30 seconds of being on the field, the failed and successful mechanisms and such) to hang on our wall of robotic graveyard we will be content.
So in answer to your question, I dont think there would be much of anything to sell. Although if a team or group or something really wanted it, I am sure we would attempt to make them happy.

[Bharat Nain]

I don't think Team 25 would ever sell their robots because some of them are legend - atleast to us because they have taken us upto the Einstein field and we have put in an incredible amount work planning, prototyping, THINKING ABOUT IT and ofcourse building.

[santosh]

I dont think Wheeler would ever sell any of our robots. There ar so many memories that we have with those robots ever year. Such as this year, spinning in circles at like 60rpm+ for 2 straight matches, or righting ourselves up at Peachtree in the quarterfinals and then breaking in the process. And in 2004 winning Peachtree.

In short 1002 would probably sell our souls before we sold our robots.

[mechanicalbrain]

i think our team has been doing first for 7 or so years and i dont think we have a SINGLE robot. its allmost a tradition to canabalize them. im trying to buy a controller from our team since we have a huge stack of them held together by rubberbands.

[Cyberguy34000]

Our team has tried really hard not to cannibilize our robots, the result being that we have 3 very cool looking, fully functional robot that we can use for demonstrations. But the bot from 4 years ago didn't fair so well. We've channeled all of our cannibilism at it, and it had stripped of almost all of it's parts. Well, we were facing storage issues, so it had to go. The funny part was that after the mentors threw it away, some team members went dumpster-diving for what was left of it.

Last I heard, it was being converted into the ultimate lawnchair transport...

We'll see how that turns out

As for the bots that were built before that... Noone has really been able to find out. But I think we all know happened

[mechanicalbrain]

our team has the perfect solution. we just built a shed and hold everything in there.

[Wayne C.]

Originally Posted by Bharat Nain

I don't think Team 25 would ever sell their robots because some of them are legend - atleast to us because they have taken us upto the Einstein field and we have put in an incredible amount work planning, prototyping, THINKING ABOUT IT and ofcourse building.

The status of our machines- We have six years of currently working machines. Each year the current pit crew is put to the task of evaluating them and repairing whatever has broken or is worn out. Generally the stuff broken on them is due to rough competition or simple wearing out. We use the robots a lot.

2000- Cradle Robber- still intact and fully functional- was a great trainer for capping this year

2001- Robo Kong- we haven't used it in a while but the only mech problem is a damaged tether port. Other than that it works

2002- Silver Scorpion- intact except for the brakes- we took them off to replicate others for the later bots. Other than that all is working

2003- Evil Machine 1- intact but modified- we loaned this one to pre rookies for the spring games and we made it dump tetras. It works but has a few age issues. The pneumatics need some work.

2004- Evil Machine 2- fully functional - it too was modified for a pre-rookie to play in the off season and the arm is a great capper.

2005- machine without a name- of course it is still functioning and on its way to play at IRI right now

We could always use new sending and receiving antennae and the tether cables we had seem to walk away......

I suggest that instead of taking apart the old machines that you find a pre-rookie school and work with them to modify an old machine to play the off season games. Then by the time they get their first kit in January they already have some experience and enthusiasm for the program.

Storage- we have a small room at our HS. A local company gave us a donation of some used pallet racks and we built tiered decks for the machines. We have room for 10 now-


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[ngreen]

We stripped Hyo, our Stack Attack bot, down to it's frame and drive and electronic to drive and sold it to a 2003-2004 mentor. He was our main programmer mentor during 2003 and works for Garmin. I think he was planning on doing something with it with GPS but I've haven't talked to him in a while so I'm not sure how it is going.

Our two newer bots are in good working order and the one is headed to IRI.

[ClintDog]

I doubt that we would sell our robots, we seem to get attached to them. I think we still have all of ours in our showcase. we use our recent ones for programming.

[Daniel Brim]

Our status (I don't think we would considering selling though)

Pre 2001: Stripped for parts, although various assemblies are still around. And BTW for anybody who cares: floppies make great Frisbees.

2001: Championship winning robot ("the Champ"). It is still together, now basically used as a programming test vehicle, but we recently fried the drill motor and we don't have any more of that year's motor, so it is immobilized.

2002: "The Chump". Stripped for parts. All of the veterans thoroughly enjoyed that I'm sure.

2003: The U thing (no name): Base was stripped, we still have the frame. We still have our stacker, which I still think was cool (too heavy though)

2004: The Chump V2. Still together, but the arm is detached. It never really worked well anyways.

2005: The Predator. We're keeping this one for a long time I think. One of our best robots ever. We need to make replacement grippers though, because they snap.

[Chase]

I hope we never have to sell our robot. I hope my team will do much better as far as fundraising. I hope that if we have enough money we won't have to strip our bot for parts either.

[mechanicalbrain]

its not about money for us. i think its two things. one, we dont like to see parts go to waste. second, its almost a tradition now. also when i was talking to santosh we realised a real nice benefit to reusing parts. my team has plenty of resources to experiment with and it makes it easy to train people as each person can have their own system to build and play with if they need one.
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