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Maker Faire Austin 2008
Ice Cube: Team Toad
Ice Cube is the middle child of Team Toad's family of plow-bladed pushers: antweight Ice Chip, lightweight SnowFlake, middleweight Ice Cube, heavyweight FrostBite and superheavy Iceberg. Ice Cube's strategy is simplicity itself: be a linebacker and gain yards on the ground. Push em back. One of the oldest robots still competing, Ice Cube originally sported a spring steel hoop in the back to keep the plow blade firmly on the ground. In 2006 a complete redesign with a lowered center-of-gravity eliminated the hoop, increased traction and allowed Ice Cube to right itself after being inverted.
Web site: http://robogames.net
About the Maker(s)
Michael Mauldin
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