Your Best Robot

[Andy A.]

Originally Posted by Bill Gold

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Here's a link to one video of that robot...

http://s125.photobucket.com/albums/p...&current=1.flv

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*sigh* That video was always a disappointment to me. The potentiometer on our control board used to ramp up the roller speed had failed and as a result we missed the last few balls as the rollers bogged down and stalled. It is, so far as I know, the most widely distributed clip of us running a line, and we didn't even get them all!

Oh well. Better then the first few clips of us running a line. Until we learned to properly ramp up the roller speed, balls would just shoot straight up 15 feet and out of the hopper. It was impressive, but useless. My co-driver and I had plotted to do it intentionally during our first practice match with out telling anyone, but decided against it at the last second. The scoring table was right next to the field and we didn't want to bombard them on our first day out.

-Andy A.

[Starke]

I would say that the best robot out of the G.R.R. plant is the 2004 robot. "Roxanne" was a great design that accomplished the game task with proficiency. It went undefeated at the Buckeye Regional that year, and made it on the Einstein Field at The Championship Event. There is a picture of her attached. You can see a great video of her in a match here.

[JudyVandy]

Well, I go back as far as the team does, and, I do remember most of them.

Chuck's best was probably PI, the 1999 'bot, which wound up a Championship Finalist. It's followed closely, in my opinion by the 2007 version and the 2002 version. Chuck XI (2007) won the Philly Regional, as a defensive bot and has an awsome drive train that can go anywhere we want it to go. We didn't score many points, but we sure kept our opponents from scoring. Chuck and 'Moose' of 2002 also were great robots and won us an engineering award in NJ that year. Yes, I did say 2 robots. Moose was independently controlled so he could return to our home zone while still connected to Chuck.