Bomb Squad Calls 911

[Alex Dinsmoor]

Originally Posted by Meredith Novak

UPDATE! Robot found. Well, pieces of robot anyway. I haven't seen what is left of it. I got a call from the police this afternoon that they had spotted it (it is great to live in a small town!) but the guy wouldn't open his door.

So I dispatched a couple of mentors with a truck to accompany the officer to pick it up. Apparently it had been stripped, but they gathered up what they could.

The poor robot had quite an adventure, I'm sure!

That's wonderful news! Even though it's not the whole thing, even the remaining parts can be reused for future bots

Will you be able to post pictures of what is left (after you are able to see it), I'm interested to see what they took (yes I know that's a weird request, but I'm wondering why he didn't scrap the whole thing).

[Meredith Novak]

There wasn't that much left on it; we have been stripping stuff off to use for a couple of years. It had a radio and some speed controllers, some motors and gearboxes, lots of item and connectors, cables, etc. I haven't seen it and it sounds like we may have lost a CIM and maybe some smaller motors. I asked them to get a picture of it where it was found. Not sure if they were able to with the police around and all. I can post photos when I see it tomorrow, but it probably doesn't look much worse than when it was taken!

[nHouse]

best of luck in finding your robot, that's really unfortunate

[colin340]

Originally Posted by nHouse

best of luck in finding your robot, that's really unfortunate

they found it

[Mr_I]

"Lost Robot Found" sounds like something that happened to us: Our school had a team in 93 & 94 (before there were team numbers), and then folded. We restarted in 2002 as Team 811, with virtually no history other than pictures in the yearbook. Around 2004 one of the local community colleges contacted one of our mentors and said, "Yeah, we've got a robot with your name on it, do you want it or should we just throw it out?" It was Paragon, our '94 robot, in pretty good shape for having been apparently buried for 10 years. No clue why the college had it, or where it was for the decade.

Hopefully your robot will be at least quasi-salvageable.

[smurfgirl]

Originally Posted by Mr_I

"Lost Robot Found" sounds like something that happened to us: Our school had a team in 93 & 94 (before there were team numbers), and then folded. We restarted in 2002 as Team 811, with virtually no history other than pictures in the yearbook. Around 2004 one of the local community colleges contacted one of our mentors and said, "Yeah, we've got a robot with your name on it, do you want it or should we just throw it out?" It was Paragon, our '94 robot, in pretty good shape for having been apparently buried for 10 years. No clue why the college had it, or where it was for the decade.

Hopefully your robot will be at least quasi-salvageable.

That's really, really cool.