2002 UTC New England Regional video

[Andy Grady]

Originally Posted by Rich Kressly

Grasshopper was ridiculous going down the ball line... on and on

To this day, that robot which our scouts dubbed "The Popcorn Popper" because of the sound it made as it collected all of the balls in the line in less than 1 second, still sets the standard for roller pickup mechanisms. It still makes my top 10 list for the best robots ever created.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Andy Grady

To this day, that robot which our scouts dubbed "The Popcorn Popper" because of the sound it made as it collected all of the balls in the line in less than 1 second, still sets the standard for roller pickup mechanisms. It still makes my top 10 list for the best robots ever created.

Well, of all the videos to find from 2002, that was one of them.
http://www.team237.com/gallery/pictu...run_short.mpeg

[Jonathan Norris]

ahh what a great simple game, all you had to do was move three mobile goals into a scoring zone and fill them with soccer balls, look at all the amazing robot designs teams came up with! (arguably beatty with the most dominant of all time) Now we got all this silly stuff like autonomous periods.

[Rich Kressly]

Originally Posted by Andy Grady

To this day, that robot which our scouts dubbed "The Popcorn Popper" because of the sound it made as it collected all of the balls in the line in less than 1 second, still sets the standard for roller pickup mechanisms. It still makes my top 10 list for the best robots ever created.

Hahaha! That's exactly what we called it too! When I started up 1712 in 2006, we looked to existing designs to help us out. When it came to collecting balls, we went right to the archives to learn about Grasshopper 2002 and even paid homage on the robot: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/22970