Egg Hunt Robot Photos, Spring 1995

Click on the robot names to see larger views. The students who built each robot are listed.

Note: Some of the robots appear to be damaged or incomplete (missing computer boards or batteries), because that's how the students left them after working all night before the Egg Hunt :-) No close-up photo exists of Death; the image given is greatly enlarged from a snapshot taken in the arena at the start of a round. Because of its very large size, the wall-like Luke also photographed poorly. Vader was encased in black electrical tape after the photo was taken; this tape is clearly visible in the Egg Hunt videos.

Also note: Rules prohibiting structural uses of tape had not yet been formulated at this point in course history. Indeed, tape was the only way to attach the non-LEGO surplus DC motors and servo motors to the robot, as the use of hand-machined dorsal and ventral LEGO plates epoxied to the casings to make them LEGO-metric (see Motors in the Pictorial Inventory) did not occur until Spring 1996. (Dr. Drushel spent most of Christmas Break 1995 doing this work.) The sticky mess left behind after these first robots were disassembled prompted the ban on tape and glue (Vader was especially hard to clean up).