by Elise Cronin-Hurley | Mar 1, 2011 | Robots
Disco Pig Logomotion 2011 Bacon’s 2011 robot, Disco Pig, looks very familiar doesn’t it… Well that could be for a number of reasons, you could have noticed the similarity to Fire Pig, the four bar linkage grew up a bit, or you saw it on Fox 35 morning news promoting...
by Elise Cronin-Hurley | Jan 1, 2011 | Outreach
Outreach 2011 All Things Bacon! Jan – Otronicon Mar -Central Florida Fair Apr – Lockheed, Bring Your Child to Work Day Apr – FIRST Collaborative 11, Technology and Applications Forum for the Oracle Community Apr – Big Bacon Image Workshop,...
by Elise Cronin-Hurley | Mar 1, 2010 | Robots
Bacon Strips Breakaway 2010 Exploding Bacon’s 2010 robot, Bacon Strips, was designed and built to play the game ‘Breakaway’ an adjusted version of soccer. Bacon Strips was fairly simple, a pneumatic cylinder in the center of the robot would stretch some surgical...
by Elise Cronin-Hurley | Jan 1, 2010 | Outreach
Outreach 2010 This year we continued our Outreach across many different events and demos! Exploding Bacon believes that giving is just as important as receiving. Since we have received so much…..we try to give back. We’re proud of the fact that we are...
by Elise Cronin-Hurley | Mar 1, 2009 | Robots
B.D.P. Lunacy 2009 In 2009 FIRST threw a curveball, the playing surface (which up to this point had been carpet every year (except for 1992 when it was corn kernels)) was now a slick, polycarbonate surface, and the robots had to use a specific wheel also made of a...
