Making a robotics class-please help

[EricH]

You're limiting yourself too much. At least get 1992 in there... FRC started in 1992. Manuals from 1992 to 2009 are available, if you know where to look. See later in the post.

I'm not sure where you could find those game animation files, though dlavery might. (Hey, he does them every year!) (Only available 2003-2009; before then, find team videos.)

Game manuals are kind of scattered. The TechnoKats History Project has most of them, as does firstaholics. Oh, yeah, and the 2002-2009 manuals/Q&A are located at http://usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/...t.aspx?id=4094

Pictures of legendary robots: CD-Media, hands-down. It's got more robot photos in one place than pretty much any other known repository, unless TBA can compete with them. 71 in 2002 is one of the best; it was known for its walking file-card drive, grabbing three goals at once, and parking in scoring position. (DO NOT limit yourself to 2003-2009 on this one! Many of the "legendary" robots were before then, like 121's famous "tipper" (1996?) or 71's detaching cap that would score and then leave the robot (1997.) I'm willing to bet that most of the champions are in there, along with good robots (1114 and 330 in 2007 dominated their fields until they met better alliances), like 118's well-known coaxial crab drives.

There are inevitably some teams that have good robots year after year, and two of the most legendary are 71 (4 Championships, more than any other team) and 111 (2 Championships and 1 Chairman's). Find their robots; they're doing something right. 217, 148, and 67 are also going to be up there a bit (2 Championships apiece, and a Chairman's for 67).