Team Rembrandts 2015 Reveal
 

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That is one beautiful robot.

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Looks great! Can't wait to see it at VCU this year! :D

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Compact, and it works great.
Good job!

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Can't wait to see this machine in action!

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Looks like a very cool robot. Do you have a second robot to practice with?

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Looks great, love the use of the 3D printed parts!

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awesome robot!

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Thanks!

We've made a practice bot. But this is our first year with a robot almost completely out of sheet metal, and we had some drawing mistakes in cad etc. So some holes didn't align that good, design changed a bit during the build season.

So the practice bot isn't a good compare between the two but because we have some big fairs and demonstrations while our robot will be in America we're trying to make third robot.
We're talking with our sponsors at the moment.

Here is a picture so you can see the changes we've made.

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Wow! What an incredible robot! I don't think I've seen any team's mechanism work so smoothly. I can't wait to meet you guys at the Virginia Regional!

One thing that I wasn't sure about in the video: can your robot pick the bins up when they have fallen over and place them on a stack?

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we are still working on that, but it's not yet working as smoothly as the rest of the robot :yikes:

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See you at the Virginia regional! It will be a really fun year!

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This is a fantastic looking robot. I will definitely be stopping by to look at it in Richmond.

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The high quality of your design and execution make it hard to believe that this is only your third year in FRC. The attention to detail is amazing! All those 3D printed parts...

What are those "collars" around the end of the small motors for? Protect the motor terminals? Are those ultrasonic sensors installed in the 3D printed mounts on your chassis below the air tanks? What are those for?

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Hi Philso,
The Collars are used to protect the solder connections on the cables when they are pulled. This way your soldered connections won't break that fast when prototyping.

Ultrasonic sensors are indeed placed below the airtanks, they are used for some extra sensing.
Thanks for your interest!

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Will we have to watch to watch the live stream of the Virginia Regional to figure out what the "extra sensing" is for?

Oh wait... We will have to watch the archived videos since we will be competing at Bayou at the same time.

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Fantastic Robot! Love it.

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Fantastic looking robot. My only question is why are there only (what appears to be) mentors standing in front of such a beautiful robot. I would think the students who spent 6 weeks to build it would like to be at least pictured with it.

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A little hint: Autonomous ;)

You mean the photo with the 2 guys with the robot?
On the left is someone who works for Ultimaker and Youmagine.

They gave us some printers for the robot to test/protoype with. On the right it's me actually.
I met Ronald (on the left) during an FTC competition. He needed a photo for his blog together with me.. And we used this photo for the article, hence why it was easy to use again now!

I'm 21 at the moment and you could see me as an alumni or mentor. I've started the team when I was 17, 3-4 years ago.


Within our team we have a different team structure and philosophy. We don't have parents or business people as active mentor within our team, we're a high school that works together with a university of applied science. The university students are alumni's in their first year participating, and their second year participating they are most likely a mentor.

The average age in our team is around 19-20. (including mentors)