pic: Introducing 190's M.O.H. Goat

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[WernerNYK]

"Look at him in all his majesty!"

Needless to say, we shall be turning a few heads at BAE :yikes:

[Aaron Lussier]

Holy Stromboli Batman!!

190 does it again, awsome looking bot and I bet it works wonderfully. See you guys at BAE.

-Aaron

[Kyle Fenton]

Wow that is a nice job. Good job 190.
I had a hunch that you would make something like that

See you at BAE

[JVN]

Familiar.

Ken, watch your fingers! ;)

[WernerNYK]

... as seen on the 5:30 evening news throughout New England on NECN :cool:

[Andy A.]

I've been trying to get details on 190's bot out of a friend of mine on the team for weeks. Nice to finally see what he's been up to.

-Andy A.

[ahecht]

For those of you with red-cyan glasses left over from looking at all the Mars images... 190 in 3D! (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pictures.php?action=single&picid=6519)

[Joe Johnson]

Thanks a lot. From your pictures, you've managed to make a liar out of me once again this year.

Every year, our students ask for this or that cool feature that I more or less tell the students is impossible due to the laws of physics.

Well... ...I am a liar again this year.

Looks like a very cool robot.

Good luck.

Joe J.

[Andy Baker]

That is one doozy of an arm. I assume that you guys are locking on to the pipe very well in order to keep yourself from swinging. This is very impressive.

Kudos to 190!

Andy B.

[Greg Perkins]

how do you guys do it?

[ahecht]

how do you guys do it?

Lots and lots of caffeine. Plus a little magic.

[Glenn]

Cool Robot! You guys always come up with innovative designs can’t wait to see it person.

[Jessica Boucher]

Vunderbar :)

By the way, here's a 190 Story!
Now at Babson, even though I'm one of a handful of FIRSTers, I seem to be the only one who has some team shirts with her. So I was scared witless when I went into one of the dorm lounges to play Monopoly (it's a business school, they love the darn game :P), and I see one of my close friends wearing a Gompei shirt! (I think it was 00, I remember the 01 ones were misprinted and had 2000 on them, and it wasn't that shirt).

...And then she reminds me that she was a Mass Academy student, and it turns out she was on your email list for forever, and recieved a free tshirt. And she knew Ken Stafford (in a "duh, who doesn't know Ken Stafford?!?" type of way).

Ok, Im done storytelling! I like the bar blocker (at least, I'm assuming that's what the Lexan flaps are for). What's the dimensions on that?

[WernerNYK]

That is one doozy of an arm. I assume that you guys are locking on to the pipe very well in order to keep yourself from swinging. This is very impressive.


You would assume, wouldn't you Andy? Well we all know what happens when you assume... :)

For those interested, there is some video from NECN (New England Cable News) which came down and did a news story about us yesterday. There are some shots of us doing some of our things. It is here: http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Academy/first/resources/NECN.wmv

[Madison]

That is one doozy of an arm. I assume that you guys are locking on to the pipe very well in order to keep yourself from swinging. This is very impressive.

Kudos to 190!

Andy B.

Andy, I think that the opposite is true. For the robot to operate optimally, you'd want for it to be free-swinging about the horizontal bar.

You can see that it's tilted away from vertical in that photo, also noting that the arm is at its full extension. Were it to grab a ball and rotate over the top, the rest of the chassis would act as a counterweight, swinging back to vertical and then away to other side, dynamically counteracting the torque exerted by the arm and ball around the horizontal bar.

It's an elegant solution to a reasonably complex problem. It's not the only solution, of course, but I'd say it's the best. It places the center of gravity in a place much lower than the horizontal bar, minimizing the chance for the robot to spin around or otherwise mess up its orientation to the Earth.

[ahecht]

...And then she reminds me that she was a Mass Academy student, and it turns out she was on your email list for forever, and recieved a free tshirt. And she knew Ken Stafford (in a "duh, who doesn't know Ken Stafford?!?" type of way).
In that case, you might want to show her this (http://zansstuff.com/images/1902k4/ken.jpg) picture, taken at about 4:30am.

[Ryan Dognaux]

Wow guys, great looking bot!! Can't wait to see it in action at Arizona :]

[ColleenShaver]

I assume that you guys are locking on to the pipe very well in order to keep yourself from swinging.

M. Krass was right... swinging is something we do do quite a bit of :-)

It'll take a little extra operator practice, but it shouldn't be hard to handle at all. So we think. :) It will take some M.O.H. (Magic Occurs Here) though!

Thanks for all the compliments everyone! We've seen many a great bot on this forum.. it's gonna be a good year!

[Spikey]

WOW, I'm scared. My team can cap and uncap while hanging, but we cannot cap both goals, or decide once we are hanging, very nice job guys that is impressive.

[EvanG]

I had the honor of getting an early viewing of this robot, but it was incompleted at the time. I must say, I am very impressed with how it turned out. That is the kind of innovative thinking that makes creative winners out of FIRST students.

[The Lucas]

Great video. I wish more local stations would give thier teams coverage. Are they correct in saying your 14 foot bot is only 120 lbs? :confused: Or is that mistake by the reporters? The media always messes up something about our team. I still remember the local news show that said M.O.E. stands for "Miracle Of Science" (It actually stands for "Miracle Of Engineering)

[WernerNYK]

We are in fact 130 pounds, but can probably reach 14 feet high, so that part was accurate. At one point we were 120 pounds and could still reach as high, but weight has since been added :P

[Tyler Olds]

Incredible! This was the other way I envisioned a team to win the competition (besides our own). Looks very efficient and robust. Good luck, I am sure you will do well.

[Jnadke]

I'd imagine you could send the 2x ball into orbit with a trebuchet of that size... :) :D


Oh... that's a robot? 'Coulda fooled me :yikes: ;)


Just don't swing that arm around too fast or you might really send that ball flying...