Innovative and Unusual Robotics

[Jack Jones]

We made cord reels out of stuff from Home Depot to feed power to the FP motors on our lift mechanism - maybe you saw them at Rah Cha Cha.

We pulled out the slip rings from a pair of 14/3 triple tap power cord reels and put them into the PVC cases from clothes line reels, which we wound with speaker wire. They lasted us through 72 matches and who knows how many hours of practice, but they were starting to fail in Rochester. Not sure whether is was old age or the abuse they took at the YES! Exposition, where we let kids drive it and they persisted in trying to lift immovable objects. We expect the post mortem inspection will show burn spots on the slip rings - but what the hay, it was worth it to give the YES! visitors a taste.