pic: 2007 HOTBOT

[Jim Meyer]

Originally Posted by Anubuss

Definitly an great looking bot (as exspected from 67) but, call me old fashioned, but I'm missing the days of your old drive train set up, where you'd start a match on your back end, then fall forward, to me that's always been the signature of HOTBOT. Though I can understand why with the last few you've drifted away form it.

Nice job guys!

It's kind of funny how people have associated what we call the "flop" with our team. We only did this for 2 years of the 10 or so that we've been building robots, and those two machines couldn't have been more different drivetrain wise. In '04 it was basically a two wheel drive skid steer machine with low speed front wheels that would deploy and lift those movable goals a bit. In '05 (the tetra year) we had a three wheel "swerve" drive. The flop is not all it's cracked up to be either, the process of falling down can have a very detrimental affect on the remainder of the autonomous mode. We had a heck of a time keeping a tetra in our possession during this process in '05.

Many people may not be aware but last year it was against the rules to "flop".

[BuddyB309]

How come our robot never looks pretty? *sobs*

[prettycolors91]

It's beautiful...I love our bot. I think I want to take it to prom...

[cooker52]

Can it reach all three levels of the rack? It sure looks like it can with ease. Good job, too. Looks Great!

[Jweiner]

videos??

[ajlapp]

It's kind of funny how people have associated what we call the "flop" with our team. We only did this for 2 years of the 10 or so that we've been building robots, and those two machines couldn't have been more different drivetrain wise.

Don't you consider the 2000 robot a flopper? It wasn't a perma-flop bot, but it definitely flopped....as did Beatty. Both of which were the first of their kind that I can recall.

The new one looks great by the way.

[Jim Meyer]

Originally Posted by ajlapp

Don't you consider the 2000 robot a flopper? It wasn't a perma-flop bot, but it definitely flopped....as did Beatty. Both of which were the first of their kind that I can recall.

Yeah, 2000 was technically a flopper too, but we only did that in a handfull of matches, where the 04 and 05 bots had to flop to start.

There haven't been too many flopper bots in the game, but I know of two of them that were on national championship aliances. Ours in '05, and Beatty's in... I believe that was '03. You know the one that grabbed all 3 goals and then used file cards on it's slow march across the field.

[Nuttyman54]

Right game wrong year. Beatty was in '01

Edit: wrong again, it was 02, thanks guys. I should know this, too, I've watched those videos waaaay too many times

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by Nuttyman54

Right game wrong year. Beatty was in '01

Right game, wrong year as well. Their flopbot was 2002, the year of Zone Zeal. (Partial credit, however; Beatty did also win the Championship in 2001, just not with a flopbot.)

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by ajlapp

Don't you consider the 2000 robot a flopper? It wasn't a perma-flop bot, but it definitely flopped....as did Beatty. Both of which were the first of their kind that I can recall.

The new one looks great by the way.

First of their kind as in the first flopbots? I'm not sure if there were any flopbots from before 2000, but I know more than just 67 and 71 flopped in 2000 (116 also did, among several others).

[prettycolors91]

Originally Posted by cooker52

Can it reach all three levels of the rack? It sure looks like it can with ease. Good job, too. Looks Great!

yeah, we've practiced on all three levels, and the HOTBOT looks great for all of them.

[conacher]

that robot is hot. good job this year.

[anna~marie]

Thank you all for your kind thoughts and words.
A lot of work, as usual, has gone into this year's robot.
See you all in competition and may the best robot win!

[Duncan Macdonald]

Originally Posted by prettycolors91

It's beautiful...I love our bot. I think I want to take it to prom...

We've all been there

[Rich Ross]

Looks interesting, and can't wait to see the videos. Your arm looks simple; is it as easy to pick up the tubes as it appears???