pic: Team 190 Teaser #2 (2007)

[Cody Carey]

Didn't they have "loaner brains" back then? If it is still functional, did you just hook up a vex controller or something?

[WernerNYK]

Originally Posted by Cody Carey

Didn't they have "loaner brains" back then? If it is still functional, did you just hook up a vex controller or something?

It is indeed funtional, and this is before the time of loaner control systems. 1992 was the time of tethered robots. There were four multi-pin cables suspended 20 feet above the playing field and hung such that the machines would not become tangled. The operators just had toggle switches to control the machine, as all this did was turn power on or off to the motors.

As already mentioned NYPRO/Clinton (now team 126) also has a functional machine and competed against the 1992 WPI machine (they weren't called robots back then) at BattleCry@WPI 5. We had to rig up the power supply and control boxes for the event; without this the machines are not functional without significant retro-fitting. You can watch video footage of one of the rematches here: mms://media.atc.wpi.edu/News/Events/...Cry/04/mc1.wmv. This is a 12' x 12' field, but the real field was 16' x 16' with 4 teams.