pic: 340 Jeep Bot

[Starke]

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[Starke]

HERE IT IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Koko Ed]

You manage to recover the snapped off wheel or did you guys just toss it out?

...wow. That is a work of art, and amazingly cool at that. I hope that you all won awards and stuff for that?

[OZ_341]

Very cool.

We often wire up FP cars directly to train rookies on how to install and wire the control system. We then use the FP cars at demos. The very little kids like them better than the actual robots and they are safer to operate.

Do a picture search under "Jeepinator" to see our jeep in action at an NBC show in 2004.

Nice job guys!

[LightWaves1636]

OMG!!!That's so cool. Awesome job!

[Daisy]

Originally Posted by LightWaves1636

OMG!!!That's so cool. Awesome job!

awww....

How many balls does it hold?

[RoboMadi]

HAHAHAHA!!!!!
that is soo amazing!
No wonder Motor Industry is facing a downfall; FIRST is taking over

[Greg Marra]

Oh man. If FIRST had an award for robot aesthetics, I think you guys would take the cake.

[colin340]

Originally Posted by Daisy

awww....

How many balls does it hold?

14 at max
the Harv and hopper is made of off the shelf, bin, junk pile parts

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

Oh man. If FIRST had an award for robot aesthetics, I think you guys would take the cake.

They won for most unique robt design AKA the Mad Scientist award.

[Alex Cormier]

It was a real cool bot. Did i have a way to pick up balls or did it just look good and dump?

[rees2001]

The kids did a great job on this. If it wasn't for autonomous & transmission trouble it could have been amazing. It picked up from the floor & dumped quickly into the lower goal. The body was just for fun. We put it together to test out a new drive train but didn't get very far. The frame held up fine but the IFI wheels wore down quickly & the AM shifters gave us fits all day. They kept coming out of gear. Our re-re-recycled 2005 AM's held up fine in the rookie bot but the 2006 shifters which we had never yet used had problems. I'm not knocking the AM's we had some students in my Robotics class put them together. Time to dissect & analyze & re assemble.

Nice work kids!

[Hiteak]

I thought it was a cool looking bot. You should put in a radio Rees

[Starke]

Originally Posted by Hiteak

I thought it was a cool looking bot. You should put in a radio Rees

HA HA. The students were going to put in a wide varieties of accessories that included a radio, and moving wipers . They simply cut these out to make the robot function. To answer Koko Ed's question, this picture must have been before that match where one of the spinners broke into lots of pieces.