Team 868- The TechHOUNDS Pre-ship Photos

[wilmo]

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj25/wedge34/8215eTechHounds06.jpg

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj25/wedge34/8215eTechHounds08.jpg
I'm standing on the other side of the overpass with my arm up, this is where the trackball usually lands


See you at BMR!

[EugeneF]

thats one scary robot. I'd hate to be in front of that when it launched.

nice work!

[Leav]

:ahh: :ahh: :ahh: :ahh: :ahh:

-Leav

[Qbranch]

Looking good!

How do you pick the ball up?

What kind of drive system do you have?

We'll see you at BMR.

-q

[wilmo]

What kind of drive system do you have?

We have a 6 wheel drive that uses 4 in. IFI traction wheels

How do you pick the ball up?

The 2 "arms" that are at the very tip of our catapult open and close to swoop under the ball and hold it like a forklift, we can pull the arms up and close them into our body to hold the ball safely as we manuver

[seraphim33]

amazing....simply amazing

[Caio]

I'd love to see a video of this thing launching...

but it looks amazing! Good job!

[AdamHeard]

That's quite a launch!!!!!

Good thing 868 builds well, otherwise all that energy would tear it apart ;)

[KTorak]

I'm speechless.

[wilmo]

Here is a short vid with pictures of the pre-ship bot and video of 2 practice launches, we only launched twice at STL because of Mecanical/Electrical problems but all the bugs are fixed for BMR


Vid (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8324315868185005986&q=techhounds&total=6&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=4)

Thanks,
Wilmo

[mark johnson]

BIG AIR TIME!!!!! SWEET LAUNCHER. Good luck the rest of the season.Hope to see it at IRI.