Breakaway 2010
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...
Lunacy 2009
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...
Overdrive 2008
Walrus Pig Overdrive 2008 1902’s 2008 robot ‘Walrus Pig’ was built to play Overdrive, a race like game with the added element of 4 40 inch ‘Trackballs’ that were designed to be carried around the track and ‘Hurdled’ over an 8 foot high platform. This robot was...
Rack and Roll 2007
Fire Pig Rack and Roll 2007 Probably Bacon’s most successful robot to date, Fire Pig, was built in 2007 as a collaboration with team 1369 (Minotaur) from Tampa. The robots were designed to play the game ‘Rack and Roll’, a game kind of like Tic-Tac-Toe (if the x’s and...