02-21-2006 03:00 PM

Alex Cormier

Re: pic: Team Rush 27

As always i am impressed with the RUSH bot. We need to rekindle that winning fire and get together with you guys at Champs!

02-21-2006 03:04 PM

RogerR

Re: pic: Team Rush 27

hey, thats CDVII's collector!! you give it back!!
awesome 'bot; how do you transfer balls back and forth between the collector, hopper, magazine, and shooter? and how 'bout some details about that drivetrain?

02-21-2006 03:05 PM

nuggetsyl

Re: pic: Team Rush 27

wow looks great guys too bad we can never play together at nationals

shaun

02-21-2006 06:12 PM

Bill_Hancoc

Re: pic: Team Rush 27

WHAT!! We cant even build one robot and you build 2

this is unfair...

02-22-2006 08:10 AM

ajlapp

Re: pic: Team Rush 27

The harvester collects from the ground -> transfers balls into the elevator -> balls either shoot for the goal directly, or travel through a slowly spinning shooter and into the magazine -> balls inside the magazine can be reinserted into the elevator and back out the gun for a shot!

You can manually load the magazine via the human player also.

I specifically asked Chief to post some pictures of the harvester mechanism...they did, so we copied it the best we could. This device worked amazingly well in 2002 and it works amazingly well now. We use the Mabuchi motor coupled with a 5:1 banebots to run the lateral rollers. The inboard rollers are coupled to our other ball management devices and run coupled with them.

The drivetrain is super simple......we use the large CIM motr tucked into a Dewalt with shifting. They are eerily quiet! We added some AndyMark Omnis in the back to help reduce turning drag. So far they seem to work great.