03-13-2009 10:00 PM

gorrilla

Re: pic: 103 scoring at Florida Regional

they only scored 6 moon rocks on us all day......


they were alot of fun to play with....made it very interesting for me to drive and score wile being scored on

03-13-2009 10:32 PM

Jared341

Re: pic: 103 scoring at Florida Regional

I love it when teams adapt as the season goes on

03-13-2009 11:14 PM

pacoliketaco

Re: pic: 103 scoring at Florida Regional

i was about to say that that wasn't 103's robot, but then i saw the bumpers. so you took the shooter off and replaced it with... some sort of dumping mechanism. its kinda hard to tell in this pic. will there be any more pics of the upgrades in the coming days? i would like to see what changes you made.

03-13-2009 11:19 PM

basicxman

Re: pic: 103 scoring at Florida Regional

Haha I haven't been paying much attention to FRC this year but I must say that is the coolest robot I've seen, it's like a gumball machine of moon rocks!

03-13-2009 11:28 PM

Greg Peshek

Re: pic: 103 scoring at Florida Regional

I can't speak for 103.. but from what I saw today, they have their brush-archimedes screw idea, then the balls go into a flat top hopper. They then use pneumatics or some other implement to angle the hopper bottom and dump the balls out. It's been pretty effective this regional, considering they're ranked 2nd.

03-13-2009 11:46 PM

Pat Arnold

Re: pic: 103 scoring at Florida Regional

Really nice photography Michelle. The orbit balls in the trailer (unfortunately ours ) are so crisply in focus, while the background gradually blurs. Kudos for catching the action.

03-14-2009 12:35 AM

Cory

Re: pic: 103 scoring at Florida Regional

What makes this "epic"?

I was expecting a trailer overflowing with balls at the very least...

03-14-2009 01:29 AM

Lil' Lavery

Re: pic: 103 scoring at Florida Regional

I think she was referring the to the quality of the photograph itself, not the robot pictured.

03-14-2009 11:21 AM

katiyeh07

Re: pic: 103 scoring at Florida Regional

this photo is preeetttttyyyy awesome

03-14-2009 11:36 AM

Coach Tom

Power Dumpers seem to work

Nice modifications 103.

Team 2753 (Team Overdrive) used the same dumper mechanism in NJ and NYC. It is simple, but it sure works!

You are looking strong.

Go NJ Teams!

03-14-2009 03:29 PM

darkember

Re: pic: 103 scoring at Florida Regional

Its a great new look. You guys are doing really well.
P.S. How much time did it take to replace with your shooter.

03-15-2009 05:14 PM

Cyberphil

Re: pic: 103 scoring at Florida Regional

thanks a lot. And the whole dumping mechanism took about 3 days to make in the shop. And it only took about an hour to fully replace and test in the pits. It worked much better than I thought it would to tell you the truth.

PS. Pennsylvania is around 50 degrees. I wish I was in Florida!

03-15-2009 08:26 PM

Cyberphil

Re: pic: 103 scoring at Florida Regional

I'm really surprised that nobody really noticed the name. Anyone know?

03-15-2009 08:32 PM

Jreed129

Re: pic: 103 scoring at Florida Regional

I KNOW I KNOW!!!!!!

It is "B3+P" right?(team joke)

Joking it is the Grim Sweeper

03-15-2009 08:32 PM

nahstobor

Re: pic: 103 scoring at Florida Regional

the grim sweeper?

03-15-2009 08:38 PM

Cyberphil

Re: pic: 103 scoring at Florida Regional

No, Jeremy, its PB3, so that it sounds sorta like Peanut Butter and Jelly.

03-15-2009 08:39 PM

gorrilla

Re: pic: 103 scoring at Florida Regional

the other robot in the picture(ours) is called the "rainmaker"

03-15-2009 08:39 PM

Cyberphil

Re: pic: 103 scoring at Florida Regional

You got it.

03-16-2009 03:51 PM

Jreed129

Re: pic: 103 scoring at Florida Regional

that is amussing we always tell our human player before he goes up for a match to make it rain.

03-16-2009 04:26 PM

gorrilla

Re: pic: 103 scoring at Florida Regional

lol....we named it "The Rainmaker" becuase the sound the harvester and the STOD make sounds like a rainstick

03-16-2009 09:42 PM

AlexD744

Re: pic: 103 scoring at Florida Regional

This coming from a team that adapted their empty cell holder 4 times during a regional.

03-17-2009 11:08 AM

Ripper

Re: pic: 103 scoring at Florida Regional

how come one ball would always get stuck at the top of the screw lifter and not go up into the hopper?

03-17-2009 11:15 AM

Jared341

Re: pic: 103 scoring at Florida Regional

I believe that there is a 90% chance that you are thinking of the wrong team. And a 10% chance that I'm going crazy, because we don't have an empty cell holder...?

(Unless you didn't mean to refer to *my* team)

03-17-2009 04:12 PM

Lil' Lavery

Re: pic: 103 scoring at Florida Regional

Having not seen this design in person I can only make an educated guess. Originally that ball would have been pulled out of the top of the spiral by the shooting wheel, but once that wheel was removed the only thing that forces the balls out of the spiral were the balls beneath them. Such, the last balls were stuck.

03-17-2009 05:09 PM

Cyberphil

Re: pic: 103 scoring at Florida Regional

Good question. Because there was no way to get the ball up there and stay there without being over weight due to the fact that we had a shooter on it before. We were at 119.8 lbs so we really don't have a whole lot of weight to play with. And 1 ball out of 15 on average that we scored per match isn't much. To say the least, we were happy with the change, considering we were undefeated.

03-17-2009 07:24 PM

AlexD744

Re: pic: 103 scoring at Florida Regional

I'm sorry I just realized I was thinking of MOE. THe bow on their robot made me think Miss Daisy so I got the 2 mixed up. Sorry.