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Team 4028 Rookie Robot
Here is our robot as of a couple days ago. We painted it today and have to put the fabric on the bumpers still but we are almost done. Our robot's name is "Elevader" and is now painted matte black.
Our shooter doesn't shoot very far because we didn't have a powerful enough motor, but it works well enough. Our ball collector is made of PVC and some polycord and balls then go into a hopper which feeds them to the shooter via a wheel and a window motor. We have a 4 wheel drivetrain and two other wheels that aren't being driven powered by 4 CIM motors. This was our first test of our robot and we are all pretty excited to have something working. It's been a long stressful 6 weeks. Some of the other robot's I've seen on the forum are amazing, we hope to get there someday. We probably wouldn't have gotten the thing coded without the help of this forum, so thanks to anyone who gave me some help and feedback! Thank you to our generous sponsors: JCPenny, NASA, MTSI, and JR Gear Landscaping! video (pickup and shoot): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxU1ie4u1f4 this video gives a better idea of how our ball collector works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyDiGbDz0D8 picture of it painted: http://cl.ly/0z3n0z3M401937310K0N |
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Careful with those bumpers. I know they're not finished yet but make sure you realize you are currently in violation of [R31]:
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Make sure you test drive it on carpet! That's where you'll be competing, and sometimes it happens that rookies(and veterans) forget to do so until the first match, only to find out they have too much lateral traction and they can't turn. Again, much easier to fix now than at competition, you usually just replace the frontmost, backmost, or all wheels with ones with less traction. If you dropped the center, you should be fine. EDIT: If need be, replace the non-powered wheels first. All in all, looking really good- you both move, AND can score! |
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Ellie Vader? Darth's long lost sister in the Dark Side Chronicles? :cool:
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And yeah I was going to test it out on carpet tomorrow just to make sure we can turn. Our forward wheels are omniwheels and we have the center wheels dropped so we should be ok I think. |
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Sounds like you have it all covered. Good luck!
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HUGE SUGGESTION cover up your jaguars if someone's arm hits one of those you are toast
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Get some 1/8" Lexan and angle it up towards the frame of your hopper. Maybe move the Jaguars closer together so you can use less Lexan. That should be enough to keep most prying arms out of the Jags, but it won't be terribly hard to remove in a hurry if you need to replace a Jag.
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You all should have brought it over to the mall this weekend and practiced with it. We have a huge carpeted area with our hoops, bridge and barrier all set up for practice. its open tonight if you want to come over.
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