pic: 237 Memorial Day Parade

[Daniel_H]

very nice!
I wonder how your wheels are now hehe

[JohnBoucher]

Originally Posted by Daniel_H

very nice!
I wonder how your wheels are now hehe

Toast. Yea Toast.

Got to fix them before Battlecry

[sanddrag]

Looks like fun. One time we drove a robot about 2 miles through the streets of Downtown LA for a parade.

[K.Shaw]

Originally Posted by Daniel_H

very nice!
I wonder how your wheels are now hehe

Originally Posted by JohnBoucher

Toast. Yea Toast.

Got to fix them before Battlecry

the wheels are actually in really good shape....though after the 2 regionals and nationals they were shot so we changed them for beantown blitz which was last weekend so they were in good shape going into the parade and stayed fairly good.

[team222badbrad]

We too were in our local memorial day parade and have been in the past. The only bad part about it was that most of our members are also involved with band, so they were playing their instruments. In the past like 1999, we drove the robot through the parade/s. However, after a few mishaps of dying in the middle of the parade we stopped doing that, I think I can recall that a fire truck almost took our robot out??

We usually drive it around on the trailers, but this year to lack of trailer space we left it sit on the trailer decorated red, white, and blue.

To entertain the crowd I rode a mini "monkey" bike with a funky hat and sunglasses on.


As for the portable IO you can see my white paper in the "Technical" section here on CD.

I will try to upload or have someone upload a picture as soon as I can get my hands on one of the parade.

[Sara Milton]

Originally Posted by team222badbrad

We two were in our local memorial day parade and have been in the past. The only bad part about it was that most of our members are also involved with band, so they were playing their instruments.

The HS band is in the first section of our parade. But we are in the last section. So if any of the students are in band they just run back to the float when they are done.

[phrontist]

You can power the OI on a 9 volt battery. If you want it to last a while, put a few in parallel.

[Meyerman]

for our memorial day parade we just stuck the robot on our trailer and didnt move it it was strapped down pretty good, and ted said you had alot of fun getting the generator, i think its time to make a battery pack for stuff like this all the cool kids have one!

[K.Shaw]

Originally Posted by Meyerman

for our memorial day parade we just stuck the robot on our trailer and didnt move it it was strapped down pretty good, and ted said you had alot of fun getting the generator, i think its time to make a battery pack for stuff like this all the cool kids have one!

we were going to make one.....but a mentor came up with a good reason not to do it....we need batteries to be on charge! ya never know if your going to need another battery soo even if you can power the OI you wont be able to run the robot w/o a charged battery.