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Great robot you guys hope to see y'all at champs again this year! I really like the moving bucket indexer to feed the Frisbees!

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Loved showing how all of the single wide floor pick-ups can still have a dominant autonomous. Imagine if 2 robots on the same alliance hit for 42 each in the auto....:eek:

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Looking good. Im looking forward to seeing you guys in action.:D

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Just imagine! ;)

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Its too bad I cant watch it on my phone.
Now I have to wait about 10 hours before I get home from work!
:)

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Those are some great robots

How are you going to run the -under the pyramid auto- with the climber attached?

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For your mobile viewing pleasure: http://raiderrobotix.org/supplementa...evealVideo.mov :)

The climber tilts back (while shooting the first three discs) such that the robot is < 30" tall and able to clear the lowest bar of the pyramid.

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thanks for the mobile version.

I love it!

Why the hell did we not think of the articulating 5 gallon bucket!

Looks similar to our robot including the same color bucket!

We racked our brains for hours trying to figure out floor pickup.

Tell Wayne send us some hints next year.:)
He did however give me one of your team's championship medals, which is hanging in our showcase at school.

Congrats!

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Really impressive. Very compact electronics! Impressive, but can't be any fun to work on.
Good luck this year!
Also, no photon cannon?

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Awesome bots! simple yet effictive and not to mention that auton is scary :ahh:

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Thank you everyone for the kind words about our robots. But don't let the looks fool you. This goes down as one of the most complex builds we every had and we still have some work to do.

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Well Shaun, maybe its because you and 103 made it look so easy.:)

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Flattery will get you everywhere.

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It's not in the video, but you guys will be at Vegas right? This will be a great bot to see in person!

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Thanks! Due to how the pickup mechanism is arranged, the majority of the bottom of our robot is open (meaning we do not have a traditional bellypan), so we had to get creative with how we mounted all the electronics. We constructed the angled carrier you see at the front of the robot to hold the power distribution board, cRio, digital sidecar, spike for the compressor, RSL, radio, and solenoids. The pneumatic cylinders used for tilting the shooter are connected at the top using quick release pins. Pulling out the pins allows the entire shooter mechanism to hinge backwards (outside of the robot's frame perimeter), providing easy access to the electronics on the back side of the carrier.

All of the speed controllers are arranged (rather tightly) on a small hinged tray on the bottom of the robot. All of the wires feed into this tray from one direction, allowing us to tilt the robot on its side and swing this panel open to get at the Talons.

With the much wider goals this year, we didn't see much need for a photon cannon. However, we do have another system in place to let us know when we're in the correct shooting position. ;)

Yes, we (25) will be there! We're excited to head back out west to see some old friends and meet new teams. The video only listed the competitions both teams are attending.