pic: Team 359 2014 Robot

[waialua359]

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[Nick Lawrence]

Beautiful work as always.

Looking Forward to seeing it up close and personal in late April.

-Nick

[BobbyVanNess]

That looks amazing! You guys always build beautiful robots. Plus that AM (2013 version) high-grip wheel shattering drive train... :P You guys are sure to be insanely competitive this year!

How far can it shoot?

[Ty Tremblay]

Any way we can get an isometric or side view? For some reason this perspective is like kryptonite for the figure-out-how-it-works part of my brain.

[EricLeifermann]

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Looking forward to seeing it up close and hopefully playing together in 3 weeks.

[BobbyVanNess]

Any way we can get an isometric or side view? For some reason this perspective is like kryptonite for the figure-out-how-it-works part of my brain.

Looks like a drop down collector with a pneumatic catapult. Sorta like Ri3D 1.0

[Pjohn1959]

Hanging device in the back?? Just in case they reveal the secret end game we are all waiting for??? :)

[ice.berg]

Remember to include the space heater in your crate before you pack it up and send it off to Duluth :p

As always though great looking robot. I am super excited to see it up close in a couple weeks. Best of luck on these last days of build

[Akash Rastogi]

Glenn,

Excited to see 11 take the field with 359's robot this year at Hawaii, hopefully on the same side :)

Can't wait to see more views!

-Akash

[Lil' Lavery]

Love the solution. Very elegant way to combine features

Any details on how the pneumatic launching mechanism works?
Is that #35 chain in the intake? Or more of the bicycle chain you use in your drivetrains?

[waialua359]

I should have put Teaser as the title since I purposely chose this view.
Its really simple to figure out how this robot scores if I showed the other views.

As far as drivetrain goes, we made improvements to acceleration, speed and power vs. our 2013 one.
There are 2 shooters on this robot, but the one on the rear is not assembled as we are still waiting for parts to finalize. The front uses pneumatic cylinders.

This is not similar to the Ri3D 1.0 other than the intake setup. However, we never looked at that robot as we developed ours. But then again, most intake designs I've seen so far are all similar using the horizontal bar approach.

Intake chain is the bicycle chain we use in our drivetrain.

We are able to use software pulsing (842 idea) for adjusting shots as well as another hardware mechanism that allows for higher shorter (up against goal) vs. lower farther shots. Most teams with a similar design have this feature....they just have to use it. For what we plan to do as our primary scoring, its not a huge difference though.

This was probably the best build season we had in a while since we used a modular approach to building.
How else will I justify getting a Waterjet? :)