Who’s up for building one of these? I was thinking of adding tracks and a salt shaker on the back.
Wishing we had the resources to make one of these…
I’d thought a while ago of making an autonomous snowblower for demos. Up here in the U.P, all we have to work with is snow 
I’d build one myself, but it looks extremely costly, between $2,000 and $3,000 is my guess
Here are a couple of articles about a smaller version created by a group of Mechanical Engineering students here at Purdue. David Hoff, one of the members, is an alumni of Purdue FIRST, a group of Purdue students who help mentor FIRST teams in the area (FRC teams 461, 1646, and 1747 and numerous FLL teams throughout the local area).
http://www.theindychannel.com/weather/26121565/detail.html
I find the shooting of the snow to be less than ideal. I think the plow would be a lot faster too.
I think that a plow would be a bit safer to inherently.
You have to take a bit more into consideration when using a snow blower.
Our team, team 2861 in minnesota are actually going to start to build something like this starting next wed. after we ship our robot.
Awesome! make sure you post lots of pics and specs!