Shooter designs from the 2008 Overdrive season
 

Does anyone have any links to Shooter designs and descriptions from the 2008 Overdrive season?

I recall there being some robots designed to launch the big 40" ball with the same type of bag and these may be some good design ideas to revisit...

thanks

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No links...our team's web page (and forum) disappeared over the years. But I did find our 2008 notebook, and there is some neat stuff in it!

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1114's World Championship design would be a good place to start.

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It may be a decade before we see another robot as dominant as the Simbot SS.

It'll probably be only a couple months before we see a bunch of robots similar to it though :)

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One good place to go would be youtube. We've been researching both shooters and pickup from the 2008 season and have already found a number of interesting designs we intend to prototype.

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Packaging that robot for this year's rules is doable but challenging. I think there are better approaches this year but I expect at least one "Simbot clone" to be successful in some way. I think you'll see a lot more robots that look like 16 that year.

One idea that has enchanted a lot of people on my team is the 987-style shooter. This robot actually shot balls a few feet just by reversing its roller claw. I feel like there's some kind of black magic to this and it's not as simple as fast, powerful claw rollers... I guess we'll find out in prototyping.

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Does anyone have pictures of that robot? I have scoured the Internet for pictures and video, but have not found anything.

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Video of Team 16's 2008 robot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtMPpETrRNM

One of my favorite robots from that year. That swerve drive is just so smooth! And flop bots are always cool.

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Here is a video showing 118, 16, 148, and 1477 in a finals match.

148 might not shoot the ball, but they're an excellent demonstration of the principle that there are many solutions to a given problem. Shooting doesn't have to be a priority.

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Care to share?

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It's not the kind of thing that anyone but the author could make sense of, I think.

Steven shared a picture of the finished catapault....it has all the info you need, I think.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...9&postcount=12

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Nice, how was the launcher (linear punch) set up?

I like the robot in 3 days approach but the launcher might require much more launch range capability for autonomous mode...

Thanks

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Thanks Jim

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As far as I understand it, 1114's puncher was a spring powered fire, winch driven wind up. (I think it used surgical tubing for the spring power). The winch used a motor with gearbox to wind it up, and then pieces of an andymark dog shifting transmission were used in a configuration to shift the winch to neutral and let the spring power unwind the winch.

Source: My experience from building 1075's offseason clone of Simbot SS.