1923’s 2009 & 2011 robots (our gold-medalists) are shells in storage/will be displayed in our new space this upcoming year. We’ll be adding 2015 to that display as well but will likely not keep MKI: X functional.
Our 2013 robot, RoBART, is still our demo machine. A little shaky, but the frisbees are always a crowd pleaser.
Oldest working: 2013 (we took the climber off, but it still throws frisbees)
Oldest with all its features still intact: 2014
Robots where I can (definitely) still point out pieces of it: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009, and a different team’s 2012.
For 45, the 1992 robot is the oldest bot we still driving and functional.
Functional
Many of the robots not on the list are still relatively mechanically intact but lack electronics.
On 461 we only have our 2012, 2014, and 2015 robots functioning.
Our 2014 robot was taken apart a while ago, but oddly enough our 2013 is in almost driveable state
2667 still has our original 2008 robot in a functional state. Still running the IFI control system, too. Sadly it’s not a particularly interesting robot-- it has an oak shell designed to look like a shopping cart and pretty much just drives around. That being said, I’m pretty sure we could drive it off a cliff and it would be fine.
Our oldest robot that is still functional is from 2003, we get it out sometimes for driver practice. We also have our 1995 robot minus the electronics. We actually have pretty much all of our old robots mostly intact and scattered in buildings across the UW-Platteville campus, mostly in Engineering Hall. The only one I know for sure is not around is our 2014 robot, which was taken apart for parts.
2012: Our Rebound Rumble 'bot, T1G3R, was disassembled within a few months. I have managed to find a few intact recognizable pieces as we moved to our new build space, that are going in a historical shadowbox.
2013: We still have the lower frame and frisbee shooter. We took off the drive and climber, and added some push-cart wheels. We used it as a demo in the spring; not sure if anything was stripped since then. The hooks are going in the shadow box, too.
2014: We disassembled the ball pickup and kicker, though the hammer and the side panels are going in the shadow box. We still have the (mecanum) chassis that we keep around in case we ever decide we want a mecanum for prototype.
2015: We’re still using one for demos; I’m about 75% sure it’s the competition robot. The practice 'bot was mostly disassembled, but we’ll probably put the KoP drive chassis back together before build season for prototyping. The pickup rake is going in the shadow box, and we may use the cover plate from the control board as the face plate.
Non-competition: Our air cannon was begun in 2012, and the current version still has the same nanotube gearbox and chains, tanks, and probably the drive CIMs and a few fittings, but the rest of it has all been swapped out at least once.
Our oldest working robot is our 2010 robot, Control Z, which we now use as a t-shirt and small football cannon for football, volleyball, hockey games, etc. We now call it Control Y but we will be getting rid of it hopefully soon after we build a much newer and better bot for these events.
Do you still have the 2003 Ball Drive?*
*Scroll down to image “close right side.jpg”
Currently, the oldest robot that is fully intact is our 2014 robot. Our 2012 robot is sitting on the cart lacking turret code and mecanum wheels. We still have the frame for our 2010 robot, which we disassembled in 2014.
1610 robots in the following order and condition…
(also some information on former FRC team 616’s robots)
2005…still intact, getting a C Rio and pnuematics redone.
2006…Still intact and running except no Autonomous.
2007…Taken apart and frame used for our current robot cart
(we decided to take it apart mainly because our 2011
robot was almost a carbon copy of it with a mini bot
added)
2008…RIP
2009…(no robot built that year)
2010…Taken apart. currently the frame and wheels are used
as a prototyping platform.
2011…still intact, currently not running.
2012…Upper section removed (shooter and ball pick up)
Lower drive section (frame, drive system and
electronics still intact. We kept that as its our only
8 wheel drive robot system.
2013…still intact, nearly running.
2014…still intact and running.
2015…mostly intact as of this writing, but due to be taken
apart (mostly because it was such a crappy robot and
we need some of the parts for a better built off season
robot.
Also…We are sorta related to nearby former team 616. Although 616
hasn’t been around since 2006 we know where their former
robots are kept and plan on acquiring them in the future.
2001…in pieces.
2002…in pieces.
2003…almost completely intact, not running.
2004…still intact, not running.
2005…still intact, not running
Our 2012 robot was up and everything was mechanically working (No control system) early last year. We took it apart and kept the chassis in tact. We decided to take the chassis apart this year due to how much space it took up. We made it one of our “Freshman Challenges” to take it apart and they finished most of it today.
Its sad to see Sasha go even if I never did see him working. He was our best robot to date getting all the way up to quaterfinals at the NYC regional and he will be misssed.
Here is the last pic of him alive.
Now we are left with only our 2015 competiton bot which doesnt really work. We are building an offseason bot with the chassi of our 2014 robot in a few weeks and it is going to be much more polished then anything we have ever done.
From what I remember, we have robots from 1996 to 2015 (some given to mentors). Our 1997 robot is in display at FIRST headquarters. We used our 2006 robot for demos up until 2013, we retired it due to it literally falling apart. Most of our robots still have electronics, including 2003, 2006, 2009, and 2011 (we are going to try and revive 2003). We are currently in a tough position, after losing all of our space in Motorola, we are able to store our old robots in an empty warehouse owned by one of our sponsors. Currently, our 2012, 2013, and 2014 (2012 is missing cRIO and 2013/2014 are RTR) are inside of our sipping crate, yes, a shipping crate, along with all of our other tools and possessions. We are running out of space, sharing a small wood shop with our local high school district’s learning center doesn’t allow us to keep anything bigger than a battery box and our mechanical/electrical tool chests inside the shop (let’s just say it is quite a struggle to build a robot when you have to build out of a jam-packed crate).
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(Person for scale)
2002 and 2003 are gone. Main frame and structure of 2004 survives. 2005-2015 are intact in fixable condition, last few years are pretty much running.
Our 2000 bot is still intact and maybe running. It has sat in a cabinet for many many years. Our oldest regularly running robot is our t-shirt shooter that was built in 2008. All our robots from 2012 onward are active as well as a few others.
Our shop is littered with the half-devoured carcasses of old robots. Most of them haven’t been used in years so I have no idea if they actually work. Many of them are missing electronic or pneumatic parts, but we can supplement this by using our “briefcase” robot (robot in a box) to control them. There may be other robots around the shop that I haven’t listed that are hiding away in the labyrinth that is our shop. There is also a small robot from before bumpers or safety lights that I don’t know what year it was for (it was the year of the extending tape measure for those of you who remember that far back).
??? means it may be hiding somewhere, completely disassembled, or in parts I don’t recognize.
Before 2014, we completely dismantled our robots to reuse parts. However, in 2014, we realized the value of having old robots, especially for demonstrations and driver practice. Now we have our 2014 robot in (mostly) working condition as well as our 2015 robot.
I was hoping to hear that our 1992 robot was still around, but upon asking learned that it was in scraps by 1994.
Our oldest robot still around is the 1995 robot. The oldest robot of ours that could be made to work today would probably be our 2000 national finalist robot.
1999 through 2002: completely scrapped, most identifiable components have since walked off.
2002: just an empty hull, no moving parts left. select components hung on wall as “NEVER AGAIN” reminders.
2003: scrapped with great personal prejudice, no identifiable components left.
2004: converted to chairbot, ran away with alumnus.
2005: currently in possession of alumnus-turned-head-mentor, he keeps it in pristine condition for demos.
2006: scrapped, all parts still identifiable in stock.
2007: mechanisms intact, electronics stripped.
2008: converted to chairbot (video here) by yours truly, still in my possession.
2009: mechanisms intact, electronics stripped.
2010: scrapped with great personal prejudice. select components hung on wall as “NEVER AGAIN” reminders.
2011: all systems intact, only missing cRIO. No idea why there’s so much of this one left, because there are a few “NEVER AGAIN” opportunities here as well.
2012, 2013, 2014: fully functional, could use a tune-up.
2015: good to go for Kettering Kickoff.