02-21-2010 01:57 PM

Jamie Kalb

Re: pic: GUS Team 228 - 2010 Teaser 2

Ratchet and pawl!

... Two of them??

02-21-2010 02:12 PM

s_forbes

Re: pic: GUS Team 228 - 2010 Teaser 2

This photo made me go check out your gallery; really impressive robot you have going there. The swerve modules look great!

Will it have an orange twin like last year's?

02-21-2010 04:11 PM

artdutra04

Re: pic: GUS Team 228 - 2010 Teaser 2

Unfortunately we won't have an orange powder coated robot this year for two reasons; 1: we're going to have a 119.9 lb robot for the first time since 2005, and that's without the weight of powder coating; 2: we realized pretty early on that a bright orange frame just didn't look good when used with the mandatory red/blue bumpers. After this realization, we wanted have it anodized black but our time schedule had slipped to the point where anodizing would have taken too much precious assembly and wiring time away from us. Not that the slipped time schedule had anything to do with this being our first time designing a swerve, let alone one which clears the bump with ease.

Instead, we've been either wire brushing or sand blasting nearly every visible aluminum component on the robot. The robot in this photo is the competition robot.

02-22-2010 04:11 PM

Hawiian Cadder

Re: pic: GUS Team 228 - 2010 Teaser 2

wow, that looks complex. is that realy 1 inch axle?

02-22-2010 04:39 PM

artdutra04

Re: pic: GUS Team 228 - 2010 Teaser 2

The thickest shaft anywhere on our robot is 1/2" hex or 1/2" round. What you're probably seeing are Delrin spacers. We buy about a dozen feet of black 5/8" OD and 3/4" OD Delrin rod every year and drill out the center on the lathe to make shaft spacers. Anything which doesn't have to slide off, or transverses a long distance, has roll pins to keep it in place. Otherwise, we use Delrin spacers for pretty much everything else.

02-22-2010 06:06 PM

Jamie Kalb

Re: pic: GUS Team 228 - 2010 Teaser 2

Smart. We're always scrambling to make spacers for shafts. I should talk to my team about having the material ready and waiting.