Rookie Team 2402 Robot Pics

[Brian J. R.]

Speaking of batteries it is just good measure to insulate them. We where a rookie team last year -- side note, HOLY CRAP!! thats 599 teams to sign up after us (looking at the second post, team 2582), righto back on topic-- One of our members, for what ever reason, dropped a screwdriver onto the open battery connectors...leaving some good size gouges where the electricity arced. He never worked on batteries again...
Onto the robot now.

That is a very nice looking robot you have there, I wish we had been that lucky last year.It looks as if it would be moderately difficult to put anything else on that system so I am really curious how you are going to make that work, which by the way is really cool. I have never seen such a fluid, laid out electronics board, very nice work on that. Just a question though about the board itself. What prompted you to mount the robo controller sideways?

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And if you are getting lousy traction, might I suggest better traction wheels such as Andy Mark's or it could simply be a lack of weight.