Team 58 - The Riot Crew's Bot 'Betty'

[bobl]

Our Bot, 'Betty'. Check her out on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3E-msxyuIkU

https://my.usfirst.org/frc/tims/uploads-2012/61645.JPG

[Andrew Lawrence]

Awesome! Can't wait to see it in competition!

[DominickC]

Looks cool and efficient! Would look stellar if you stain/varnish the wood.

I like the fact that you've minimized the time in which the ball is moving through the air under it's own inertia. Certainly a great way to nullify the issue of differing ball densities.

[DampRobot]

We concidered the same strategy, being consistant on the second basket rather than shooting for the third. This robot should be sucessful, especially at the first regionals when most teams won't be able to shoot well.

Good luck in your season!

[tsakshaug]

Like the simple-ball goes in, ball comes out. not much in between

[CalTran]

Looks good and shoots amazingly. Couple of questions - does your tippy-bridge autonomous do anything else? Also, at the end of the video, it looked like your mecanum drive was having traction issues, or was that just the action in the video? Third question, can you travel the bump?

[scaryone]

By anything else, what do you mean? We can cross the bridge and balance. Mechanum drive issues = dying battery. No, we decided not to travel over the bump.:)

[CalTran]

Like, during the autonomous period, does it pick up the balls it tips and shoot them or just tip the balls to the side?

Another random question - what's the range on your shooter? Does it have the ability to actually shoot them out or is it just suck in, shove out?

[Sb28000]

How did you cut your plywood? (also, what type is it? I would assume Baltic Birch, but having never worked with plywood extensively, I'm none too sure). From the looks of how nicely and cleanly it looks to be cut, I would guess with a laser printer - however the one my school has would not hold a sheet of nearly that size... So I'm definitely curious. Great 'bot! That looks to be a very worthwhile strategy, in that it should have minimal misses due to the VERY short range. Nice work!

[Akash Rastogi]

Your driver is one of the few uses of effective mecanum drive I've ever seen.

Looks to be a sweet bot. You may want to increase the rotation speed though.

[scaryone]

Plywood is all hand cut with a scroll saw then routed edges. The student did a wonderful job.