Any other teams building more than 1 robot?

[Michael Hill]

The TechnoKats have 2 (nearly) identical robots that are almost complete. We will be shipping 1 and using the other for driving practice.

[lallamavolador]

That is interesting, but yeah that can be a good idea. We only have one robot though.

[Paul Copioli]

We have two. We built the practice robot first, then built the competition robot.

[anna~marie]

That's also what HOT does

[Billfred]

1293 has two robots that are close enough, Chomp and Circumstance. (Circumstance doesn't get all the bells and whistles of Chomp--2004 RC, the steel sprockets from the kit versus the IFIs on Chomp, less attacking with the Slugbuster...)

[Keo-san]

Its amazing you can afford to build more than one bot. We barely made it to one! Good luck with practice!

[MarsBOtkid]

We have last years robot to practice with. We may not have the same arm but good practice.

[irishninja]

Quick question. How do you manage to build two robots in six weeks? We aren't even going to be finished with one!!!

[downhillpat241]

We kind of have 2....the daily driver and the toy....The real bot and the "freshman bot".

The freshman bot does donuts wicked good, it was built before kickoff just to put a jump pack on the freshmen's brains. Worked out well. I have fun crashing it just as well as driving it.

[Jon K.]

We build two identical(except for paint) robots. Or as nearly identical as we can get with the exception of OI and some other minor things. We ship one and practice with one. We also have a full field(almost completely donated) to practice on. Some may say we are a have team, and I will openly agree to that statement, but we also try to open our facility up to as many people as want to come. We recognize that there are teams with little to no funding available for things that we take for granted some times, and therefore try to level the playing field a little. The only reason that we manage to get two complete robots in 6 weeks is a lot of hard work, a lot of donated machining, and asking for two of everything. Yea we have to buy a lot of stuff to do two(motors etc), but our twin usually ends up being scrapped after the first or second competition, mostly so that we have spare parts. With teams usually making a lot of spare parts they too could be able to do this. Also when we build our two, we build them at the same time. Usually we have a mentor showing students how to do stuff on one, and then the students doing it on the other. In that way we are also able to show the students how things are done, and then the engineers have a lot less to worry about come competition time because the students can fix a majority of the problems that may arise.

Picture here http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...&quiet=Verbose

[Lisa Rodriguez]

To put what Jon said in simple terms, at least, as it was when I was there

We build them at the same time. When you're making one part, make two, when you're making two, make four. It is a lot more work, but as Jon said, it gives students more experience in helping build the robot, often times, the engineer will build something with the student for one robot and give the work for the twin to the student, and simply help if it's asked. The second robot can be good for taking apart and explain things as well as driving. The second robot for RAGE is often mostly disassembled a day or two before a regional since that's our spare parts. It's a great way to learn things about the robot and get some driving practice in. The "evil twin" for RAGE is often beaten on and driven into the ground, as well as making us able to do demos during the competition season on the current game with our "current" robot, so if some one comes to the demo and then comes to the UTC regional (since it's closest to us) it's easier for them to recognize us (as if the bright red shirts don't do it)

Oh, and if you ever want to use the practice facility, contact Jon, who will contact our team leader to get you in. It's on main street in East Hartford and has a soda machine.

[KTorak]

I wish. We can barely afford one robot. Driver practice includes driving from the hallway to the classroom to test code/work on it and then Thursday at regionals.

[Nita]

So that's legal? It'd be nice if my team worked hard enough to do that since our regional is one of the last few...

[sanddrag]

I know of five California teams building two robots.

[Schneidie]

Originally Posted by Michael Hill

The TechnoKats have 2 (nearly) identical robots that are almost complete. We will be shipping 1 and using the other for driving practice.

we had been using our old robots for driver training before we finished. Now we are using our competition bot for driver training