pic: 2007 HOTBOT

[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".