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[CJmango]

Originally Posted by Cory

Did 217 patent the CCT?

That wouldn't take 8 years though, would it?

The CCT patent was filed following the 2002 season and abandoned in 2007 because it's just too expensive and there wasn't really anything to be gained. The students on the design team that year benefited tremendously just by having the patent pending when they applied to college, and I only just recently found out that we never completed the process.

I have the design documents if anyone is interested in seeing what it entailed. There is likely also an older thread in the archives discussing it.

Interestingly, the Illinois Tech Robotics team (ITR, www.iit.edu/~robotics) been using the CCT robot, Colonel, to promote FIRST in urban Chicago since 2005. More recently, the team refurbished and entered Colonel into a collegiate robotics competition this past March and made it to the semi-finals!

(My avatar is actually this very same robot from 2002.)