Editing 1994 (section)

==Robot construction==
As was the norm for the era, the majority of robot components came from the [[kit of parts]] or [[Small Parts]] catalog. The Small Parts allowance for 1994 was $300. In addition to kit components, up to eight pulleys and/or sprockets and 15 feet of timing belts and/or chain could be purchased off the shelf from other sources. A printer was also included in the kit of parts, although its electrical components could not be connected to the robot's control system.

Robots must fit unconstrained in any orientation inside a 30 inch tall cylinder that is 36 inches in diameter at the start of a match and weigh no more than 65 pounds. Hydraulics were actually ruled legal this year in a team update, although any compression had to come from legal kit motors or springs.

Drill motors were typically used in the drivetrain of machines, while mechanisms were typically run by the Delco seat motors. Chassis were commonly wood and many robots took up much of the cylindrical maximum starting dimensions with round chassis.

===Control system===

Due to the lack of surviving documentation, many of the specifics of the 1994 control system are currently lost to time.

The kit of parts included an eight-way joystick similar to [[1993]] which was wired by default so that it would control two channels on the robot controller. If the drivetrain motors were wired into these outputs, the joystick could be rotated 45 degrees and used to drive the robot in a tank drive style.

The transmit and receive boxes could communicate wirelessly using a pair of [[RNET]] radios or a tether cable and adaptor plugged directly between the two boxes. RNETs would be surrendered before competition began and operating in the pits required use of a tether cable. The kit included project boxes and a variety of switches to construct a custom button box. 

As was common for the time, the available motors were drill motors and Delco seat motors.