Your first robot

[Joe J.]

We've technically had two first robots one for each of our rookie years.

465's first robot for the 2000 FRC season: Zeus


862's first robot for the 2002 FRC season: Ziff

[Chris27]

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[artdutra04]

Here's 228's 1999 robot "Gus 1", from back in the days before we had engineers mentoring on our team, and a sponsor with CNC fabrication facilities:




We've come a long way since then; here's our 2007 robot, "Gus 9":

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by artdutra04

Is that a fiberglass frame? Love your control box btw

[=Martin=Taylor=]

Here's ours:

(Oooh look We're hurdling!)





It was called "Stealth." It won the 1995 championship (yet didn't compete in any regionals). It was largely built and designed by Carlo Bertocchini of battlebots "Biohazard" fame.

We consider this the "lost robot" of team 100. Since it vanished quickly after 1995. In fact, these three pictures are the only known photos of it, and they were discovered only recently by Adam Heard.

Ironically Team 100 began a prolonged decline after its rookie year... Our robots got progressively worse until 2005. In 2006 there was somewhat of a student/mentor rebelion and the entire organization of the team was drastically changed leading to our return to success.

[Billfred]

Back in the days when I was a high school senior on a rookie team:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/19905

I like to think things have improved a bit since.

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by XxMORTteam11xX

Is that a fiberglass frame? Love your control box btw

Thanks. But no, it's not fiberglass; it was powder-coated 0.125" sheet metal fabricated on a CNC turret/punch machine.

Here's a photo of our non-powder-coated practice chassis from last year:
http://www.team228.org/media/pictures/view/2635