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Re: Agawam HS (839) and PotHole Detector Robot
Well, Elgin, it's a long story. But the short version is we didn't document all of our research and engineering work at the time of development. Consequently, even though we got a "patent pending" we did not follow up with the real application, for a lot of reasons. # 1 reason was that we would never had been able to defend it against infringement because of the lack of documentation.
On the good side, John and I have spoken at Lemelson workshops since our project and stressed the fact that teams needed to document, document, document. I know of at least one that took our story to heart, Team 357, Royal Jester. Their famous Jester Drive is the basis for their InvenTeam project of adapting it to a wheel chair. The last time I spoke to Joe Troy they were persuing going to market.
Road Iron, however is dormant.
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Co-Founder/Mentor FRC Team 839 / JrFLL Team 137/Rosie Robotics/Agawam HS
Winner NEF District WPI 2016
Regional CA-08 Boston, 12 WPI, Eng'g Excellence, 12-15 UL Safety, 15 Motorola Quality
KPCB Entrepreneurship 04, 05, 06, 07, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16
Rookie All Star and Top Rookie Seed 2002
Paul Harris Fellow, CMP Inspector 05-16, Head LRI NE FIRST JTB 1944-2008 "What did you do with your dash?"
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