Robot Reveal: 179 Children of The Swamp 2015
 

Team 179 Children of the Swamp proudly presents our robot for Recycle Rush: Swampthing 2015!

Feel free to comment with questions

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Very cool use of Mecanums on the Recycling Containers.

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The mechanum wheels lifting the recycling container inside the gripper is one of the most clever design choices I've seen all year.

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Those mecanum wheels on the claw... genious.

Solid robot guys!

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The mecanum claw left me speechless.

Looks like we're putting in a VEX order tomorrow...

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That recycling container pickup is awesome. I love the degrees of freedom you have with it, and the mecanum wheels are amazing as well.

Good luck in competition!

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Awesome robot, I love the mecanum claw and its range of motion! Just a great design over all, good job!

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Sick claw mechanism, very cool robot.

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At around the 30 second mark I noticed the mecanums on the intake and thought to myself, "why would anyone put mecanums on an intake like that?"...and now I see why :D

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While I'll never understand Florida's obsession with mecanum drivetrains...that claw left me speechless. Great robot and great song.

Reminds me of Spectrum's effective mecanum intake last year.

(Disclaimer: I have an irrational bias against mecanum drivetrains in general, regardless of the game.)

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That claw is INSANE!

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Yeah..my favorite beside our robot is BAAACK!

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That claw is terrific. I knew someone would figure that out and use it. Well done!

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Wow. That claw has amazing maneuverability, and very clever use of the mecanum wheels. Can't wait to hopefully compete with/against you guys at bayou! It's always nice to have some Florida friends come up for the competition.

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Am I seeing correctly, are those 4 long air cylinders that move your lift device?

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Yes yes they are, also +1 first comment not about the claw lol

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What bore? We are having problems with having enough air stored to use our 2 cylinders on our lift. Are you not having any problems with yours?

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7/8" 14in stroke. Air is an issue during practice but not over a 2 min match.

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Final question, how many Clippard tanks are you using for storage?

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Currently eight tanks.

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EDIT: Jonathan beat me to it

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Hey Landon. Just for future reference, it's spelled mecanum. It's an easy mistake to make. Good luck this season!

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I'll also plug that mecanum claw, I love it!

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I love seeing ideas and implementations that we didn't even consider.

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Well, what an interesting account. Thanks anyways.

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I thought you guys didn't like pneumatics... :p
:D

Robot looks awesome guys. I must also comment on the use of macanum wheels on the claw, very clever.

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Epic RC arm/elevator!

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That claw is absolutely incredible. The landfill-miner is cool, and the whole robot looks fantastic!
I hope to see that robot up close at the championship event!

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This thread right now:

Though seriously, great looking robot as always. Can't wait to see it in action!

(And let's be honest...that's a pretty cool claw.)

Amazing claw! Great use of mecanum wheels.

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It's been said already, but that is one magnificent claw. It really grabs your attention.
Anyway, good luck this week.
I'm really excited to see y'all at the Bayou Regional!

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That claw though. Wow. Amazing. Beats even 118's IMO. I was planning on making something like that in the offseason actually.
And that use of mecanum wheels to lift the can up!
Do you have plans to add an active intake for your grabber arms? It could help a lot.

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I understand this has already been mentioned a million times, but I love the mecanum claw. The rest of the robot is also well designed and built.

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We have something designed if we need it/have weight for it. We are waiting to see how it performs in it's current state at South Florida before we change anything.

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What's the highest stack you guys can top with an RC?
I feel like even suggesting the afore-mentioned mechanism would only annoy me more.

EDIT: Nevermind, I didn't actually count the number of totes at 1:40

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That robot is amazing as a whole but...

Dat claw doe....

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Awsome robot! I'll be looking for you guys at champs.

I thought 118s claw was amazing this is just umm I'm done.

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My favorite claw so far this year! I always look forward to your robots, this one knocks it out of the park.

Nate

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Did we miscount or does the claw have 7 actuations, counting it's lift?

Also how much of the up and down motion of the RC is from the mecanum wheels and how much is from the rear wheel?

Very cool robot, I'm looking forward to inspecting this thing at Bayou.

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Anyone else notice the mecanums on the claw? That was pretty cool.

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I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that you either really over engineered that Go-Pro mount, or you've got an RC grabber in the works :rolleyes:

Great robot guys, you all did a fantastic job with each game aspect.

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Wow. Just wow. That is all I have to say.

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It really takes all 3 wheels to get the motion shown, the original design had omni-wheels in the front and a traction wheel in the back and was not very effective. After last year using mecanums on our intake (borrowed from 1986) the student designer decided to try the mecanums wheels and it worked way better than we could have hoped for. There were quite a few iterations made to bring everything together.

The claw itself has 2 pistons, and 3 motors for the mecanums and rear strafe wheel. The claw is mounted on a pan-tilt mechanism for picking up cans from there left or right sides, as well as the pan action for topping our own stacks and better CG while driving without any totes.