pic: Art and the Mountain Dewbot!

[artdutra04]

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[Kyle]

That looks great, I hope it works out for you guys and get a sponsor ship. What are some of the specs on how it works and what it dose?

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Kyle

That looks great, I hope it works out for you guys and get a sponsor ship. What are some of the specs on how it works and what it dose?

Pepsi (the owners of Mountain Dew) sponsor 71, wouldn't be out of the question.

[Rich Ross]

those treads look like they could play some mean D in a FIRST competition.

[Taylor]

That pic just wouldn't be complete without the bunny-ears.

[ChrisMcK2186]

Wait, didn't MD do this a while ago in their commercials? The one bot that went around and almost killed a guy by pegging him repeatedly in the groin with high pressure launched cans? Cool bot nonetheless.

Chris

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by ChrisMcK2186

Wait, didn't MD do this a while ago in their commercials? The one bot that went around and almost killed a guy by pegging him repeatedly in the groin with high pressure launched cans?

7-Up.

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by Kyle

That looks great, I hope it works out for you guys and get a sponsor ship. What are some of the specs on how it works and what it dose?

Thanks! Inside the beast are two AndyMark single-speed trannies, each with dual small CIM motors. The electrical system is more or less FRC-legal; we use a slightly different, but much lighter 40amp Maxi-block in addition to dual 12v Exide batteries in parallel to increase our running time. We use a several Spikes to control the other functions on the robot, such as the sound system and cold cathodes.

Originally Posted by Rich Ross

those treads look like they could play some mean D in a FIRST competition.

They are snowmobile treads, and have an unbelievable amount of friction on almost every imaginable surface known to mankind, especially high-traffic carpet.

[Mark Pierce]

Looks Great. I like the innovative and extreme effort you put into this fundraising effort.

If you get the sponsorship though, please try to avoid logo confusion with the team who's logo was inspired by a Mountain Dew Box: the RoboDAWGS of Grandville and Byron Center, Michigan. There have been a few discussions over the years about whether they should ask for sponsorship from the Pepsi people, but nothing ever came from it.

[1086VEX]

I WANT ONE!!!!!
it looks really good, great job!!!

[spinmunky]

Originally Posted by ChrisMcK2186

Wait, didn't MD do this a while ago in their commercials? The one bot that went around and almost killed a guy by pegging him repeatedly in the groin with high pressure launched cans? Cool bot nonetheless.

Chris

that was 7-Up and was built by Jamie Hyneman of the Mythbusters!

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by Mark Pierce

Looks Great. I like the innovative and extreme effort you put into this fundraising effort.

If you get the sponsorship though, please try to avoid logo confusion with the team who's logo was inspired by a Mountain Dew Box: the RoboDAWGS of Grandville and Byron Center, Michigan. There have been a few discussions over the years about whether they should ask for sponsorship from the Pepsi people, but nothing ever came from it.

Our family has already been good friends with the Dew Crew of the Mountain Dew Vertical Challenge races for many years now. Many of my friends can attest to the amount of free Mountain Dew stuff that is given to us that I share with everyone. Building the Dewbot isn't a conventional way of recruiting sponsors, but we believe it will be extremely successful for our team.

We already have several members of the Dew Crew interested in attending several of the offseason FRC competitions in New England, just because of the Dewbot. Before the event, we emailed several of the Dew Crew members who we are good friends with telling them that we would be bring up "a robot" to the MDVC Finals. Those emails were forwarded a lot around Pepsi Marketing apparently, as there was an executive from PepsiCo that flew out from Colorado just to see our robot, of which he was extremely impressed.

Also, I don't think there would be any logo confusion if we did get the sponsorship, as the Dewbot is a public relations robot and not our FRC robot. We'll still keep our team name of Gus.