Robot "Barn Find"

[Matt C]

I know most have probably heard of finding old cars in barns after being stored for years. How about robots?


Well more like a tent recovery.


OK, so here is the back story:

Waaaay back in 2005-2006, I had the opportunity to save the last remnants from my old high school's FIRST robotics program. The program had ended with the 2004 season with a local regional win. This is the same team that back in 2002 seeded first and won the Einstein division at Nationals and made it to the finals (look at those casters!). Anyway, the 2k4 robot is off to be "restored" back to working condition by a West Islip robotics mentor who was a senior in 2004 at East Islip. He will be modifying the controls setup to use the modern control system instead of the old Innovation First box.

The 2k2 robot was stripped a while back and needs significant repair and replacement of missing components to be able to be brought back to operational condition, but it could be a random future project for posterity sake.

[Mr. Mike]

Just me but there was a lot of COTS parts that could have been reused. I don't thick I would use the battery.


My first car was a '66 Mustang that I bought for $300.

[Akash Rastogi]

Best I can do is $5 for the whole lot.

[dipmeinaluminum]

did you want to pawn it or sell it?


can you wait, I have a friend who is an expert in this field.

[Brian C]

Originally Posted by dipmeinaluminum

did you want to pawn it or sell it?


can you wait, I have a friend who is an expert in this field.

That's some funny stuff!

2 quick stories I have to relate regarding the 2002 Championships:

Matt C was in his freshman year at WPI working with team 190.

1. In order to get to the championship finals team 311, his High School team ewhich I still mentored had to compete against WPI in the Championship Semi-finals as they had won their division as well. Talk about family rivalry.

2. After finishing as champion runner-ups in EPCOT team 311 attended BattleCry at WPI in May. Guess who we met in the finals there? Team 173 RAGE. This time 311 was able to pull out the win, with lots of help from the Rhode Warriors and team 190 who was on our alliance as well. That settled any leftover family issues......

[Chris Hibner]

That was a great time. I have very fond memories of that day, and I swear I remember every match.

Somewhere in my house I have an old mini-camcorder VHS tape of that entire tournament run. I remember getting up that morning and telling my wife, "you better have all of the batteries charged for the camcorder, because I have a feeling that we're going to win it all today and I want to have every match on video." I just had a really good feeling that morning. My good feeling came up just one match short.

I remember we had a match against 311 during qualifiers. They were the #1 seed going into the match, and we knew we had to make that match count. We did our usual thing of racing out, grabbing the goals, lifting them up, and then being able to drive where ever we wanted. I looked across the field during the match and you could see the frustration on 311's entire drive team. Afterward I went to the coach of 311 and said something like, "I love your machine - we could do well together," and he said something along the lines of, "yeah... I don't think we want to go against that again." After that I started feeling pretty good about our chances.

Speaking of 190 - didn't they have that great CVT that year?

Thanks for the great memories, Brian.

[Matt C]

Originally Posted by Chris Hibner

Speaking of 190 - didn't they have that great CVT that year?

You mean the overly complicated toroid drive continuously variable transmission that was built for the machine that was effectively designed to park in one spot the entire match?

Yes.

[Garrett.d.w]

Okay, so I know this is sort of off topic, but it is really bothering me. Is the mustang a 1965? My dad and I are arguing about it XD

[Matt C]

Originally Posted by Garrett.d.w

Okay, so I know this is sort of off topic, but it is really bothering me. Is the mustang a 1965? My dad and I are arguing about it XD

The Mustang in the picture is a 1965 coupe. It's my first car that I got for high school graduation. The body is the same between "1964.5" and 1966.

[Gary Dillard]

Wow do I remember that robot! We came so close with you guys that year, what an awesome run. I've still got the videos of the finals on my harddrive- they finally disappeared from the NASA archives online. And I'm still trying to get the video of our match against WildStang in the Newton semi's from our driver that year.

Found them on YouTube (of course)

Finals Match 1 - the legendary Beatty crawl

Finals Match 2 - SPAM knocks out Beatty

Finals Match 3 - Rage cleans up

[Chris Hibner]

Originally Posted by Matt C

You mean the overly complicated toroid drive continuously variable transmission that was built for the machine that was effectively designed to park in one spot the entire match?

Yes.

Well, the pit demo was cool. And it couldn't have been that bad - they made it to the elims at Epcot.

[Matt C]

Originally Posted by Chris Hibner

Well, the pit demo was cool. And it couldn't have been that bad - they made it to the elims at Epcot.

No, it was a thing of beauty, just overly complicated for the function it had. The file cards were what got us into the elims.

[BigJ]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

Best I can do is $5 for the whole lot.

Let me call up my friend who's an expert on decade old robots found in tents

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Wow! Drill motors!

East Islip, NY

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...85&postcount=1

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by BigJ

Let me call up my friend who's an expert on decade old robots found in tents

Yeah, he said it really isn't worth my time.

Take the $5 or leave it.