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There's an encoder on the 2 am gem cim motors. The 2 motors are facing each other with a coupling combining them going thru 2 big 1/2" encoders (1 is a spare). There's lots of set positions for feeding and shooting.

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This is an absolutely fantastic design. Looks like swampthing will be one of the top teams who can consistently score discs and climb high! In fact, I think this is the first robot I've seen so far that can shoot 3 pointers AND dump on the top goal.

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Then I guess you didnt see the 1023 videos.

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Dan,

Once again I am speechless sir. That is an excellent machine coming from a true veteran team. One of those smack your head type "why didn't we come up with that type design". Kudos to the whole crew.

-Drew

Re: 179 Swampthing 2013 Video
 

Here are a few pictures from different stages in the build.

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Those SLA parts are insanely cool! Really hope to try that construction method out in the offseason. Where do you have them made?

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Awesome job! Definitely one of the more unique approaches (as opposed to a variation on a linear feeder/shooter a la iR3). Also one of the first videos of a team actually climbing and dumping. Great job and best of luck this season!

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http://www.finelineprototyping.com/

These guys really hooked us up and did an excellent job!

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That's one interesting wheel set up on your shooter...any insight as to why you stacked blue-orange-blue?

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Totally my fault. I had a miscommunication with Justin. I take all the blame- we WILL be showing this video on the air tomorrow. I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience I may have caused.

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Doh! Oh well, it's cool. Thanks Mike, looking forward to watching tomorrow night!

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Not really, in fact we hadn't shot prior to those pics. there's a flywheel on the back wheel now and all our blue wheels were worn out, so currently all orange. But there's a big pile of blue and orange coming in the mail. We remade the shooter on the last day, there's no SLA there now. It's all adjustable aluminum. seems to work better but we need more play time with it.

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I've been doing some thinking about my favorite robots over the past 10 years.... and a number of them are 179 because of the uniqueness and completely out of the box thinking. Don't know whats in the water at your swamp, but I want some.

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Thanks Barry, Drew,

Our design is usually based on the tooling and experience available. This year Chet (our lead mentor) bought a makerbot. That really got me excited and I went overboard about the 3d printing at a consumer level. I tried to make the point to our students that this is revolutionary technology and we have it sitting in our shop! The possibilities are endless and the efficiency advantages are incredible. I think the technology still needs a little more time to ripen, but I recommend all teams look into this if they haven't yet. A makerbot is only $2k.

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Love the way you combined multiple functions into a single mechanism.