pic: Robots in the Mahtomedi Homecoming Parade

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Originally Posted by Taylor

Very cool. How long was the route? Did your batteries last the entire time?

That big square thing on top of the 2846 Fire Bears robot is a big big 12 volt battery. If we hadn't had the chain problems, we would have been able to do the whole parade several times.

In June we did the Roseville MN Parade using the same setup. We actually did the parade than reversed the route and drove it back to the school. The driver carried a backpack with a regular FIRST battery to power the router and the drivers station ran off the laptop battery.