Coolest thing on your bot??

[Cynette]

In my opinion, the coolest thing on 1511's bot was our bumpers! They were made out of recycled team pants. We had a problem buying our supply of red camo fabric so we got permission to cut up our old cargo pants and use the fabric. Our seamstress extraordinaire pieced them together (reinforced seams and all) and then recut the fabric for the bumpers!

Here is Shelley and her pile of pants!
http://rollingthunder.smugmug.com/ga...674_oKJtS-A-LB

and our robot with its bumpers! http://rollingthunder.smugmug.com/ga...721_DeMSx-A-LB

[Mr. Lim]

http://www.rutherfordcontrols.com/pr...D=104&zone=can


Two big honkin' Electro-magnets!

[Bomberofdoom]

Probablly the coolest thing in this year's robot is the robot functions. It actually THROWS the ball like a "over-the-head pass" in soccer, instead of pushing or rolling the ball over the overpass. and it's not a shooter.

[Joe G.]

The use of Juggling rings as our gripper.

Our coolest thing was definitely our independent suspensions. We only did this because we used mecanum wheels this year. Each suspension was extremely easy to detach which made quick repairs a breeze. It really helped when I decided to crash our robot into the block at the end of the lane dividing wall, as shown in picture 2. These suspensions also helped us win the Rockwell award.

[Travis Hoffman]

Our upside down rear bumper.

And our cast aluminum roller claw wheels cast in the shop's foundry using the accumulated scrap from team machining mistakes - they live on to serve a useful purpose. Huzzah.

[Ericgehrken]

I remember seeing that coaching 195 that match.

[BT987]

the worm gears to raise the arm or.....the dong!

[techtiger1]

I would have to say besides our drivesystem, it would defintely be the kicker underneath the claw that we used to kick the ball foward over the overpass, it was shaped like a high heel and was just a comical/cool looking part of the robot.

[T3_1565]

our linkage drive! Pretty much for how new of a system it is, it kept up with everyone on the field (it even matched 1114 for some of the time )


I love our linkage!!

[Ryan Dognaux]

Our Team.

[Cynette]

Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux

Our Team.

That is cool! What a fun idea!

[Kyle Love]

Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux

Our Team.

Beat me to it.

Our team had a lot of random decals all over it this year, it was awesome. "Are you guys really sponsored by MAE?" That was the best line of the year I heard.

[andrew348]

The coolest thing on our robot was the IR Control. We had the most powerful IR system in the world on our robot. We had complete control over the robots direction during hybrid and could consitanly get 4 Lines and sometimes a ball.

[Andrew141WOBOT]

One of the coolest things is probably not on the robot itself. Our IR controller was a hardhat with 24 led lights on the front. The hat then ran down to the control box and a nine volt battery.
The coolest things technically on our robot may have been the big yellow 'banana' arms, because they were made to be replaced every 2 matches, but we found out that when they bent, we could just bend them back, so we got a good few matches out of each set of arms. Or maybe our coaches old WOBOT license plate.