After the interest in last year's
- Ever spend a week in the life of someone else -
This year we are doing - Build A Bot - where WE will be building (at least) a new robot every month for the entire year.

This is a custom laser cut Rutherford Robotics tank frame (the 1st one Jerry ever cut !!!)
with a Barton board controller (mega8) Tamiya track kit and a Tamiya duel motor gear box kit. It was built as a maze mapping robot.

This is a cheap Owi brand wall following kit which sells for around $20 U.S.D. I got it
for a second entry into the maze comp, but modified the controller board to make it faster, and it worked by winning the custom class at our recent maze comp.

This is "Team Shebot's" Lego NXT entry into the maze comp, while its not presently finished. It should be a top performer if she gets it programmed correctly.

This is the Redneck Tractor. Its also one of Team Shebots entry's into our maze solving event. It works by following the right hand wall to solve mazes.

This is the RumpShaker. It was planned to be an entry into the maze solving event, but was redesigned into the Redneck Tractor, as it wasn't deemed fast enough.

This is the El Royboto. Its a RoboLefter kit he purchased for the Maze Comp to enter as a backup entry for his custom built robot.

This is Red Rover, its a custom made wall following robot.
Its uses 2 solarbotics motors and 6v of power to solve mazes, by following the outside wall. I'm not counting it as an entry to "Build-A-Bot" as its too simple in design and functionality.

This was Team Shebots first try at building a maze mapping robot from a Lego NXT. While it worked, the physical shape wasn't good enough to be competitive, and had issues turning around in narrow deadends.

Since I mentor at a local High School, this robot was my design, even though I didn't build it.
It never did work as expected, so we scrapped it.

This is Beavis's Butthead, it was one of Team Shebots entry's into our recent maze comp.
It took 3rd in the Lego class.

This is the Crash-Test-Dummy. I had some feedback in the design of this robot after the students had issues with their other robot designs.

This robot is Franken-Lego-Bot. It also was built by the school, which again I gave advice on its creation.

This is the DisCus robot, its under construction. Louise won it at the '06 Maze Comp.

This is Growler. Its a linefollower robot which uses a Atmel Mega8 for brains, and a array of IR's for tracking the line.

This is J-Eng. Its a maze mapping robot a relative didn't finish, so it got dumped on me. I'll get it running and count it in this madness.

This is the Rump-Shaker. I reused the name as I thought it was funny. This is a slow line follower robot that shakes itself in a crazy fashion to follow the line.

....and YES I'm still building more robots, of both the custom type and kits
(the year isn't over yet!!!)

This is the Speeding Dummy.
While it looks a lot like my Rump Shaker
line follower robot.
Its actually a object avoider.
It uses the same BEAM technology and IR sensors to avoid objects.