pic: 2007 HOTBOT

[Anubuss]

Definitly an great looking bot (as exspected from 67) but, call me old fashioned, but I'm missing the days of your old drive train set up, where you'd start a match on your back end, then fall forward, to me that's always been the signature of HOTBOT. Though I can understand why with the last few you've drifted away form it.

Nice job guys!

[Ellery]

Another awesome design from an awesome team!
Good Luck at the competition!

Ellery

[Cyberguy34000]

I am a member of the HOT team and i will be posting two videos tommorow of our robot, at approximately 5:00, untill then, imagine!

/me want to see video of awesome robot!

[WEHickok]

QUOTE=Anubuss;582068]Definitly an great looking bot (as exspected from 67) but, call me old fashioned, but I'm missing the days of your old drive train set up, where you'd start a match on your back end, then fall forward, to me that's always been the signature of HOTBOT. Though I can understand why with the last few you've drifted away form it.

Nice job guys![/quote]

We didn't do a flopbot because we couldn't figure what do do with the flag when we flopped! Just kidding. We felt that the game this year didn't require the extra stability that the flopbot gave us. I hope we are right.

[Molten]

Looks great. Just out of curiosity, how close are you to the 72x72 limit?

[Jim Meyer]

Originally Posted by Temper Metal

Looks great. Just out of curiosity, how close are you to the 72x72 limit?

R12
Once the match has started, the ROBOT may assume a PLAYING CONFIGURATION that exceeds the size dimensions specified in Rule <R07>. While outside of its HOME ZONE, a ROBOT may expand up to a maximum width of 72 inches and depth of 72 inches. While entirely inside of its own HOME ZONE, there is no limit to the maximum width or depth of the ROBOT, as long as it remains entirely within the HOME ZONE. There are no height
limits for a ROBOT in its PLAYING CONFIGURATION at any time after the start of the match (other than those naturally created by the ceiling height of the competition venue).

We do not violate this rule, if that's what you're asking.

Yes we lift under the robots. This is something we put a lot of thought into. Our "racks" are 16" wide and 1" tall, and lift to a height 16" off the ground, which allows for robots to have up to 4" of ground clearnace. Our lifts can safely lift all our previous robots without fear of damaging them. We were originally planning to have a drive-on platform on the top of these lifts. After much consideration, we felt all-in-all this was a safer way to lift other robots. They're much less sensitive to the positioning of the robot (wheels hanging off the edge and whatnot) and it prevents robots from rolling off while being lifted. Hopefully we can work with our partners before the match to ensure we can lift them without fear of damaging their robot.

[Jim Meyer]

Originally Posted by Anubuss

Definitly an great looking bot (as exspected from 67) but, call me old fashioned, but I'm missing the days of your old drive train set up, where you'd start a match on your back end, then fall forward, to me that's always been the signature of HOTBOT. Though I can understand why with the last few you've drifted away form it.

Nice job guys!

It's kind of funny how people have associated what we call the "flop" with our team. We only did this for 2 years of the 10 or so that we've been building robots, and those two machines couldn't have been more different drivetrain wise. In '04 it was basically a two wheel drive skid steer machine with low speed front wheels that would deploy and lift those movable goals a bit. In '05 (the tetra year) we had a three wheel "swerve" drive. The flop is not all it's cracked up to be either, the process of falling down can have a very detrimental affect on the remainder of the autonomous mode. We had a heck of a time keeping a tetra in our possession during this process in '05.

Many people may not be aware but last year it was against the rules to "flop".

[BuddyB309]

How come our robot never looks pretty? *sobs*

[prettycolors91]

It's beautiful...I love our bot. I think I want to take it to prom...

[cooker52]

Can it reach all three levels of the rack? It sure looks like it can with ease. Good job, too. Looks Great!

[Jweiner]

videos??

[ajlapp]

It's kind of funny how people have associated what we call the "flop" with our team. We only did this for 2 years of the 10 or so that we've been building robots, and those two machines couldn't have been more different drivetrain wise.

Don't you consider the 2000 robot a flopper? It wasn't a perma-flop bot, but it definitely flopped....as did Beatty. Both of which were the first of their kind that I can recall.

The new one looks great by the way.

[Jim Meyer]

Originally Posted by ajlapp

Don't you consider the 2000 robot a flopper? It wasn't a perma-flop bot, but it definitely flopped....as did Beatty. Both of which were the first of their kind that I can recall.

Yeah, 2000 was technically a flopper too, but we only did that in a handfull of matches, where the 04 and 05 bots had to flop to start.

There haven't been too many flopper bots in the game, but I know of two of them that were on national championship aliances. Ours in '05, and Beatty's in... I believe that was '03. You know the one that grabbed all 3 goals and then used file cards on it's slow march across the field.

[Nuttyman54]

Right game wrong year. Beatty was in '01

Edit: wrong again, it was 02, thanks guys. I should know this, too, I've watched those videos waaaay too many times

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by Nuttyman54

Right game wrong year. Beatty was in '01

Right game, wrong year as well. Their flopbot was 2002, the year of Zone Zeal. (Partial credit, however; Beatty did also win the Championship in 2001, just not with a flopbot.)