Silly and ridiculous robot designs.

[Rysonue]

I'm sure every team has come up with some pretty ridiculous designs. Those overtly comedic designs put forward soley to make a funny. What are the ridiculous designs your team has come up with?

Our most ridiculous design has, so far, been the concept of "Injecting the hamsters." I'm fairly certain no one has ever... EVER uttered that sentence(except us.) We also joked about a helicopter design, except we realized it would still need bumpers on it. We solved that problem by making the blades the bumpers, so I guess magic would make it fly.

So what are your ridiculously wacky designs?

[lilac]

Well, i can't remember a specific ridiculous design now, but am sure everybody wanted to paint themselves in silver paint n pretend you are the bot!


Things would be so much easier!

hahahaha, jk ^^

[BenjyPoore]

We havn't thought of too many this year, but we had a funny one last year. We considered making a 6' robot that would drive to infront of the opposing player's station it would unfold to the maximum length and block the driver's view. We decided it wasn't very graciously professional.

[Akash Rastogi]

A giant caaage

lol jk

a 120lbs person who can toss the ball over the overpass. Now if only we could figure out how to get a person to run on battery instead of food...

[Grant Cox]

It's a running joke on our team about a member that, in 2006, wanted a giant hand to shoot the poof balls "Kobe" style.

[ChrisMcK2186]

This year we had stuff ranging from giant vacuums to pinball machines. Not to wildly exciting though.

Last year we had one, which I was the main advocate of, that is best described as a "swiss army bot." Basically everything unfolded out of a tiny cube.

I still get grief about that today...

[gallo26]

Hahahaha we had the helicopter thing too.

But our wackiest was a launcher....where the ball completely fits inside a pipe, and we use air to launch it. That would be one huge pipe...and a lot of air pressure

[Torboticsmember]

Just in passing I suggested that we try to disguise this really good soccer player that is at our school as our robot. He could probably control that thing with his feet, or not to think about it his nose, no problem. But that is only a dream I guess

[DonRotolo]

For this year's game, a "Motorcycle bot". 2 wheels.

[G1279]

Our robot could fly in 2005, it just 2min 17s to get enough speed to lift off.

[BHOP]

one kid on our team, mike, always comes up with...

THE SOUP BOT
a robot that has a giant pot and fresh meat and veggies. it chops them up and puts them in a pot of boiling water. the problem is to make the soup during a 2:15min match and then dispense it to the referees. Because what referee doesn't want fresh soup.

[Nate Laverdure]

A hovercraft bot would be totally possible, but I would hate to see it perform in a pushing match.

[luciaes]

i always suggest building a tractor beam, hey it works in star trek, why not in FIRST?

[JoeXIII'007]

I would like to see someone design and build a robot that can find a particular loophole in the physics of space and time such that it can run a ridiculous number of laps in auton and regular play.