So your original robot design was.....

[LightWaves1636]

I wasn't involve in the design because I had to get started on programming but I heard our team originally wanted a midget with a potato launcher.

[IraJason]

Originally Posted by LightWaves1636

I wasn't involve in the design because I had to get started on programming but I heard our team originally wanted a midget with a potato launcher.

Please don't post anything that might be offensive to others. It really doesn't have any relevance here and just makes you look in poor taste.

I understand that you were trying to make a joke and I don't mean to offend you, but you must also think of other people's feelings before you post something that may offend someone else.

Just a friendly reminder...

[George1902]

Originally Posted by IraJason

Please don't post anything that might be offensive to others.

Don't worry. Ashlee is used to the short jokes by now. ;-]

On topic, I'm pleased that we're being so faithful to our original design this year. We made some minor changes along the way, but we're building essentially the 'bot we envisioned shortly after kickoff.

[Bcahn836]

Our first original design was to build a tank. One big gun torrent, sweet massive treads and a solid aluminum plate.but our mentors thought that the design would have a few problems like GP and weight. Since then we decided to go with 4 wd, a smaller more compact ball launcher, and a not as solid chassis but strong enough for us to play defense, a mini tank.

[Unglued]

what about having a robot that dices the balls and launched them into the center goal so for every foam cube one would get 3 points, but.... that won't work....

[team222badbrad]

We first thought about a double barrel, but that just wouldn't cut it for us...

[bbehnke]

i gotta say our looked like a shoping cart with a gun on the front

[aaeamdar]

Originally Posted by IraJason

Please don't post anything that might be offensive to others. It really doesn't have any relevance here and just makes you look in poor taste.

I understand that you were trying to make a joke and I don't mean to offend you, but you must also think of other people's feelings before you post something that may offend someone else.

Just a friendly reminder...

The PC Police strike again! With your endless litany of things unsayable and areas untouchable... oh, how I love the PC Police!

Let's all sit around simpering and equivocating so as not to say anything that would damage anyone's feelings. "I don't mean to offend you" and "I certainly hope noone takes offence but" and "oh I'd better not say anything at all"... I hope I don't hurt anyone's feelings by saying this, and all references to any groups, racial, sexual, or otherwise, are completely unintentional, so help me God if I were to offend, sob, anyone... what /was/ I going to say?

Have you seen the Lord of the Rings movies? They should be banned! Banned, I say. They make fun of dwarves! Gah, what is the world coming to? Kids these days, *grumble grumble*.

(S)He was making a joke, and if you are so oversensitive that you find it to be offensive, I can live with that.

Paul Dennis

[Tim Arnold]

I thought that a linear accelerator would be a possible bot. After realizing the massive power requirements (as I figured that by having no moving parts it would be easy-peasy and efficient).

We are now going with a 4-wheel drive bot (inventor pics) with a catapult-like design. One thing I find interesting is that no other teams are going with this approach (that I know of). It seemed to be more efficient as long as accuracy was good.

[dude__hi]

We've stuck to our design and it's coming along great...it's a strong defender with great speed...our traction is alot more than last year's robot so it can't turn in place anymore but ohh well...

Other than that everything is coming along great...and I thought last year's robot was tough...this year's robot is Karen the Warrior!!

[Adam Richards]

You know, since we had just figured out the whole flying robot thing, we were quite irritated that we had a height limitation for 2006. Oh well...

[LightWaves1636]

Originally Posted by Adam Richards

You know, since we had just figured out the whole flying robot thing, we were quite irritated that we had a height limitation for 2006. Oh well...

hey maybe next year, I would like to see it.

[pez1959]

Yep. Our flying toaster idea went out the window with that one too..
and with that rule about not damanging the playing field...kinda had burnt poof balls ....:-(

[Mr. Freeman]

Originally Posted by pez1959

Yep. Our flying toaster idea went out the window with that one too..

Microsoft probably wouldn't like it too much either. You know how touchy they are about their screen savers....

I believe that our original idea was a chassis with a tank-type turret, 360 degree camera for target tracking, 3-5 smaller ones to track other robots and the individual balls, anti-grav levitation plates, all powered by a cold fusion + hamster&wheel drive.

Needless to say, there have been a few modifications since then.

[Andrew Blair]

My fingers have suffered from trying to count the revisions...