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 | 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 | 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...
by Elise Cronin-Hurley | Jul 7, 2008 | Robots
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...
by Elise Cronin-Hurley | Mar 1, 2007 | Robots
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...
by Elise Cronin-Hurley | Mar 1, 2006 | Robots
Our First Robot Aim High 2006 Exploding Bacon’s first ever robot. Built in a mentors garage in 2006 with a drill press, a borrowed chopsaw (yes, chopsaw) and a small amount of hand tools. Designed to play the game ‘Aim High’ this 100 (eventually 119) pound machine was...
