Would you or your team ever sell your old robot(s)?

[Jay Trzaskos]

hey i never got to drive MJ, but definatley one of my vavorite 229 bots. right there behind Denominator. I wanted to put her back together, but noooo, JOhn didn't want me to. Thought i should be driving the robot and getting better... oh... uhm, never mind, John was right.

JT

[Mike]

Obviously Elgin knows what we do with our bots, but for anyone else interested we usually rip them apart. Our 2004 bot is still in decent condition, so we'll probably use that to prototype design/programming ideas.

[mechanicalbrain]

yeah we always say were keeping our bot together but then we need a spare motor or this cable or that sensor..... yeah..... were failures.

[Matt Krass]

We tried to keep ours together, but we can't seem to manage it.

2001 - Tempo LX, Regional Winner, pile of parts. (To be fair Tempo got more or less destroyed in one match and was taken apart in a vain attempt at repair cause none of us knew anything about him )

2002 - Captain, nearly perfect shape. He has the obligatory dents, bangs and scrapes of a FIRST bot, but he functioned perfectly until the end of this year when his pneumatics broke, but that's since been fixed. He's our favorite demo-bot

2003 - Worst Case Scenario, decent shape, lacking basically all his motors though, he can't move at all.

2004 - Near Precision, drive works, arm was KIA during a demo, and later disassembled, he's first on the list to be repaired next season.

2005- Sir Pinski, broken RC, the power connectors ripped out at the regional. We used a loaner from 488 in Atlanta. Waiting to have that IFI'd.

So...we only have one "functioning" robot and there's no way we'd sell any of them.

[Wayne C.]

Originally Posted by Bharat Nain

I don't think Team 25 would ever sell their robots because some of them are legend - atleast to us because they have taken us upto the Einstein field and we have put in an incredible amount work planning, prototyping, THINKING ABOUT IT and ofcourse building.

The status of our machines- We have six years of currently working machines. Each year the current pit crew is put to the task of evaluating them and repairing whatever has broken or is worn out. Generally the stuff broken on them is due to rough competition or simple wearing out. We use the robots a lot.

2000- Cradle Robber- still intact and fully functional- was a great trainer for capping this year

2001- Robo Kong- we haven't used it in a while but the only mech problem is a damaged tether port. Other than that it works

2002- Silver Scorpion- intact except for the brakes- we took them off to replicate others for the later bots. Other than that all is working

2003- Evil Machine 1- intact but modified- we loaned this one to pre rookies for the spring games and we made it dump tetras. It works but has a few age issues. The pneumatics need some work.

2004- Evil Machine 2- fully functional - it too was modified for a pre-rookie to play in the off season and the arm is a great capper.

2005- machine without a name- of course it is still functioning and on its way to play at IRI right now

We could always use new sending and receiving antennae and the tether cables we had seem to walk away......

I suggest that instead of taking apart the old machines that you find a pre-rookie school and work with them to modify an old machine to play the off season games. Then by the time they get their first kit in January they already have some experience and enthusiasm for the program.

Storage- we have a small room at our HS. A local company gave us a donation of some used pallet racks and we built tiered decks for the machines. We have room for 10 now-


WC

[ngreen]

We stripped Hyo, our Stack Attack bot, down to it's frame and drive and electronic to drive and sold it to a 2003-2004 mentor. He was our main programmer mentor during 2003 and works for Garmin. I think he was planning on doing something with it with GPS but I've haven't talked to him in a while so I'm not sure how it is going.

Our two newer bots are in good working order and the one is headed to IRI.

[ClintDog]

I doubt that we would sell our robots, we seem to get attached to them. I think we still have all of ours in our showcase. we use our recent ones for programming.

[Daniel Brim]

Our status (I don't think we would considering selling though)

Pre 2001: Stripped for parts, although various assemblies are still around. And BTW for anybody who cares: floppies make great Frisbees.

2001: Championship winning robot ("the Champ"). It is still together, now basically used as a programming test vehicle, but we recently fried the drill motor and we don't have any more of that year's motor, so it is immobilized.

2002: "The Chump". Stripped for parts. All of the veterans thoroughly enjoyed that I'm sure.

2003: The U thing (no name): Base was stripped, we still have the frame. We still have our stacker, which I still think was cool (too heavy though)

2004: The Chump V2. Still together, but the arm is detached. It never really worked well anyways.

2005: The Predator. We're keeping this one for a long time I think. One of our best robots ever. We need to make replacement grippers though, because they snap.

[Chase]

I hope we never have to sell our robot. I hope my team will do much better as far as fundraising. I hope that if we have enough money we won't have to strip our bot for parts either.

[mechanicalbrain]

its not about money for us. i think its two things. one, we dont like to see parts go to waste. second, its almost a tradition now. also when i was talking to santosh we realised a real nice benefit to reusing parts. my team has plenty of resources to experiment with and it makes it easy to train people as each person can have their own system to build and play with if they need one.
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[Dr. Osemwengie]

That is why I founded world robotics invitational where I am promoting Transform Your Old FIRST robot contest for a chance to win $2,500.00 for your team. For more detail log on to www.worldroboticsinvitational.org

[iwin2000]

It's not like I don't share the opinion, I love our robot too

But on the other hand, if we don't need it anymore, I wouldn't mind selling it to someone who actually would have a purpose for it as opposed to having it just sit there for people to look at.

So yea selling it is fine, just make sure to take a ton of pictures before you let it go.

[Blue_Mist]

My first reaction to reading the title of this thread was "HOLY CRAP, you're asking me WHAT?!?!?" Then I thought about it. And thought about it, and thought about it some more, but the answer is still, no, not while they still function. All three ('06, '07 and '08) functional robots are awesome demo bots, and as of now we have all of three members who will be here after 2009, so recruitment is more important than fund raising now. Besides, it's kind of like asking to sell your child. Our team's situation isn't that desperate yet! But you know, the team in two years may think differently.

[SamC]

would you or your team ever buy our (330) old robots?

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by SamSofa330

would you or your team ever buy our (330) old robots?

If I were to buy any of them, it would have to be the one from '04.
Your team had a great bot that year, & more importantly one which rivaled ours with a similar mechanism for moving across & defending the bar.
And... while I did oversleep on that Saturday in Atlanta, & completely missed the match where we were on opposing alliances, I heard it was one of the most competitive matches outside of the finals on that field that year. (Archimedes was it? - I forget.)