"Hey, look, it's a battle bot!"

[Wetzel]

I see it as part of the outreach/fundrasing challenge. Be creative on what you do.

"How do I make this interesting to Jon Q. Public and his kids?"

A few things I have observed.

Simplify
Relate
Have the light on and rotating.

The goals are worth 10 points, and balls in them were worth 1 point. If you have a tether, we also got 10 extra points if we were able to strech out across the field, so we worked on this special device to do that.
Rather than there are 5 zones, and if the goal is in this zone....

By all means, if there is heavy intrest, more detail, but for the large majority of passerbyers, they will only have a passing interest, and confusing them isn't good thing if you want them interested.

These motors are used in RV jacks. These are the same as you have in a drill, but we took them apart and used them instead to drive around.
What inspired your bot. We had an arm in 2001, and could explain that we were attempting to mimic the action a human would make to pick up a ball.
Other things that you can find so they can relate too are good.

The rotating light. Don't ask me why, but it attracts the eye and helps draw people in.


Many other things you can do, but just field the questions as they come. You will get used to the BB questions, even if you don't like them.



Wetzel

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