Storage Space & Previous Robots

[Pat McCarthy]

The HOT Team has all of our robots back to 2000 stored and displayed at the GM Milford Proving Grounds building in which we work. There is a large area at the end of a hallway that we have set up with display lights where we keep our old robots, FIRST awards, and peer awards on display. (The right half of which is seen in the below photo)

Pictured above: the 2001 HOTBOT, the 2004 OCCRA bot, and the 2002 HOTBOT.

However, the GM just renovated the upper part of the building, and we had to move all of the robots and awards into a conjoining room just to the right of the original display area. (The right half of the temporary storage is pictured below)

Pictured above: 2002 HOTBOT, 2004 HOTBOT, 2004 OCCRA bot, 2001 HOTBOT.

We also use a huge room directly above the machine shop, which contains very large heating and cooling units, as additional storage. In there we have a bunch of random stuff, our old shipping crate (which now has lots of tubing joints, a garden hose, old software from autodesk, among tons of other crap in it), a new roll of carpet we got from GLR last year, 2 old TVs (not sure if they work), and lots of binders. We also used to have our practice fields up in that room as well.

Condition of Robots:
HOTBOTs:
2005: Almost fully working order, just some minor, competition-like fixes to make it run perfectly
2004: Drives like a champ, the claw on the arm was replaced last year with tongs to practice with tetras
2003: Rear drive turrets pretty much disassembled; lots of scavenging here. I think that the box stacker and self-righting mechanism would work fine if the RC is still in there, not sure if it is.
2002: Fully functional; runs sweet, hopper tilts back to dump, goal grabber works, but is disabled.
2001: A shell of a HOTBOT; it looks like it should, but under the skin most of the important stuff is gone or non functional.
2000: Another shell of a HOTBOT; looks like its former self, but has no controls left.
1999-1997: Completely disassembled and gone.

Other Robots:
2004 OCCRA bot: It's all there, but there are some major mechanical & electrical issues that would have to be resolved before it would even make a good driver training bot.
CASEY V1 (Community Awareness of Science and Education Year-round) Showbot: The 8 wheel drivetrain is probably functional, but using 25 pitch chain on drive wheels was a mistake, and constantly throws chains. The 'torso' of CASEY is next to it, just fine.