1529 CyberCards

[Taylor]

If you've been following our blog (http://frc1529.wordpress.com), you've already seen these.
Here are videos we shot the day before ship - the first time we really got fully functional driver practice
Video 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5blodfEdmwE)
Video 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92lp4U8hKQU)

We're one of the apparently very few teams who didn't go with a claw/arm this year.

See you at the Boilermaker Regional!

[Chris is me]

I love it. You guys perfectly played to your resources to make a simple, competitive robot. Great job!

Plus you're probably the only team to use a rotary pneumatic actuator. Just saying.

[Taylor]

Plus you're probably the only team to use a rotary pneumatic actuator.

The only pneumatics we've got are on our minibot deployment. All window motors, man.
4 CIMs - drive
4 Window Motors - 3 on floor loader, 1 for "peg"
1 Fisher Price - lift

The yellow cord is a hose taken off an air compressor; we're using it to contain the wires for the manipulator window motor.

[Chris is me]

Oh, I was just confused by the pneumatic-looking tubing leading to the peg.

Still a good robot!

[bam-bam]

Looks great and runs great!
(hehehehe...)

[Taylor]

Here's our 2011 build season video (http://video214.com/play/HOI1bCMCF1rmXeO1UbThlQ/s/dark). We're also using this as our video submission for the Chairman's Award.
Big thanks to Parent/Mentor Tony Sterret and Awards/PR/Safety Captain Tia Waters for putting this together.