What do you think of team 61 robot
 

Give some feedback on what you think of team 61 robot for this year.. If you have any questions i will be greatly glade to answer them.. Although i can't tell you everything i can tell you some stuff about it.. We have our own secrets two you know!!!!:D

o ya our robot you can find it in the gallery or click on the link below

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...DESC&sort=date

it looks pretty coolio..heh i like the drive train, but i cant really figure out what those bars are gunna be for unless you still need to add some kind of grabber thing on the end of it, but anyways it looks cool, compared to all we have is drawings on CAD at the moment...:rolleyes:

Ok...
So what's it do?

Its designed for plowing through the boxes and being the KING OF THE HILL.... The arms are used for blocking and for moving boxes so we can hold on to them some what.. when the arms are extended through the front or rear they are 5' apart and from either side they are 7' 2".. They are made out of steel.....

well, since you have the old bosch and old chippy on that bot, it looks like you still have a lot of work converting your old 2002 bot

thats our robot right there we just have to put the motors on the arms and we are done......

Good Strategy...but....
 

What are you going to do if the boxes aren't there when you get there?

Have you got good backup strategy in case plan A can't be achieved?

Yes we do but its still kind of being worked out...

did some one say we are converting our old robot for this years competition?

Yeah some one did, but i hate to break it to you, its a brand new robot, brand new everything (well almost) Thanks tho :D

What's not brand new?

if i told you i would have to kill you... =)

Yes we would........................... :D

Isn't that the same base as last year?? As in drive train, and body and everything inside?

http://www.valleytech.k12.ma.us/Robo...2%20Gears1.jpg

Last years drivetrain: Note the smaller drill last year.

http://www.valleytech.k12.ma.us/Robo...op%20View2.jpg

Last year body: note the nice paint job, note the steel in the front, note the back of the robot solid wood.
Look for the drill holes from last year if you think this is last year base.


Look at 2 year ago base: This look more like this years robot.
http://www.valleytech.k12.ma.us/Robo...Bridge2001.jpg

Look at 3 years ago robot:

http://www.valleytech.k12.ma.us/Robo...s/roboti73.jpg







Do you see a pattern. We stay with something that works. We build a new base every year. We make changes as we go like this year we build strong rail system for the tracks. Different tracks this year, it is hard to tell but yes they are different. Look at the motors they are new because of the new drills we got. So if you think in any way we do not follow the rules you would be wrong. We like to be able to put our robot together quickly.


Why change the design every year. This way we can spend more time on the task at hand.

Nothing says we can't use the same design we just can't use anything from the last year parts unless noted in the rules.

Take at look at our web site and you will see all the different robots each year. We don't have picture on the web from our 1994 robot but you would see the same style as we have now the only different is it was 36" wide instead of 30".