pic: 706 Lunacy Bot [Archive]

reversed_rocker

17-03-2009, 07:55

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dodar

17-03-2009, 07:56

WOW! this is almost a twin to the Pink Team lol :ahh:

JDeCola

17-03-2009, 12:20

wow slick looking bot :)

Jeff Pahl

17-03-2009, 12:40

Very nice looking bot. Most of my team was drooling over it at one time or another at Wisconsin.

sgreco

17-03-2009, 15:53

Is that a Lamassu? :ahh:

But in all seriousness, that a really impressive piece of engineering. I love the CNCed side panels (or were they water jetted?).

What's the ball capacity?

reversed_rocker

17-03-2009, 20:23

15 balls, you can get in more if you compress them but we were scared of jamming the conveyor motors.

Bruceb

17-03-2009, 20:32

I was plasma cut and smoothed out with the blood of freshmen mmmuuuaaahhhaaa.Bruce

Gary.C

17-03-2009, 21:04

I was also thinking that the bot is like pinks twin. Collaboration??

AlexD744

17-03-2009, 21:26

Looks like pinks minus pink has a hopper option. And I don't know if you have the same sensors.

JonellGregor

17-03-2009, 21:29

This looks alot like Pinks!
Nice looking robot!

reversed_rocker

18-03-2009, 00:05

thats just plain strange, i dont even know where the pink team is from. hopefully we do have a few key differences because otherwise my engineering ego will have definitely taken a hit. right now the factors that i think would separate us would be

Automated conveyor belt using optical sensors
4 wheel crab drive with inverted front and back steering
adjustable turret hood
custom steering wheel (a pot hooked to the analog input on the driver's station translated to give values for the steering encoders to follow)

GreerD

18-03-2009, 00:20

otherwise my engineering ego will have definitely taken a hit.
Having a robot that looks like Pink should definitely not be a blow to someone's ego, I would take it as a compliment. It looks like a great robot!

NickE

18-03-2009, 00:22

thats just plain strange, i dont even know where the pink team is from. hopefully we do have a few key differences because otherwise my engineering ego will have definitely taken a hit. right now the factors that i think would separate us would be

Automated conveyor belt using optical sensors
4 wheel crab drive with inverted front and back steering
adjustable turret hood
custom steering wheel (a pot hooked to the analog input on the driver's station translated to give values for the steering encoders to follow)Pink is from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Yes, there are significant differences between their bot and yours, the most notable being the swerve drive. Pink is using a six wheel tank drive.

Even if there are resemblances, don't let your ego take a hit! Pink consistently has some of the nicest robot engineering in FIRST.

reversed_rocker

18-03-2009, 00:40

oh im not doubting that 233 is a great team, what i meant by that is that i thought that we had a fairly original design. sorry to any members of 233 who took that the wrong way.

UnknownMember

23-03-2009, 17:02

Good lookin' bot! Just out of curiosity - You said "Despite our rank, we're still like our bot..." Did you mean "we still like our bot," or that you are like your bot? Is this kinda like the pet thing, where pets look like their owners and vice versa? Robots are like their teams? Be interesting to look into this further... :)

AndyB

23-03-2009, 17:49

I was really high on this bot ever since seeing it at Sussex. It's a shame things didn't work out so well. We didn't fair well ourselves either....

Stupid orbit balls.