Could you post a pic of your robot with its arms fully extended out? I'm having a tough time trying to imagine how you will guard the top of the ramp- Thanks

lets hope you dont do that because you prolly wouldnt be able to compete after that would happen.

you cant just intentionally go all out and try to destroy

Well we don't go out and damage robots intentionally we have never destroyed a robot with intention.... We just go out and fight until the end!!!!!!

this is our arms open they are 7' 2" from tip to tip............

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...&quiet=verbose

Now do you think we can guard the top of the ramp.......

(last year) Below is a picture from the PA robot challenge.....

http://www.valleytech.k12.ma.us/Robo...20goal%201.jpg

Oh yeah- now I remember you guys- you were one of the few teams who could actually push us around last year.. your tread system sure is amazing

as long as you can rotate these arms, you'll probably be able to do a good job on the hill

we test one of the arms on Friday with the motor and it works sweet.... and it has lots of force....


and for the ones who think we don't have a lot of power look at this picture it will change your mind.....

http://www.valleytech.k12.ma.us/Robo...ng%20Robot.jpg

Very intesting strategy... but as I told the person from my team who wanted to play king of the hill.

"WHAT ABOUT THE BAR?"

Greg

61 has a great drive system. the only team i saw who could push them around consistently last year was 180 SPAM.

One thing we can always count on <knocks on wood> is that FIRST is going to implement a game that requires a decent drive system. Once a team 'masters' or develops a drive train, they tend to stick to it. It will be interesting to note how many second generation swerve drive teams will be present this year :rolleyes:

<curses being a rookie team with no fabrication machines>

Hey guys it seems like you have gone for another beast again. Question what is up with all the wire in the picture is that for the swinging arms? Lastly do you have any securing device to make sure your on the ramp? Well we will see you guys at Regionals who knows we might be partners (me begins to think of possibilities) Regardless friend or foe we will see us on the ramp;)

I would just like to make something clear, by saying almost every thing is new what i ment by that is our robot pretty much looks the same and it looks like last years robot but every thing is new. except for the way our robot looks. So for any misunderstandings out there I just wanted to clarify that. Sorry for the confusion

Spam team did not push us around. It would be more like a even power robot. If you go back and look at the two times we play them. we took a goal away from them and block them from getting back to there home base. and the second time our partner could not move so we left spam alone to try to get the most point for both teams.

those wires are for the main motors we are using the 30 amp breaker until we get our 40 amp breaker. The wire you see is for the arms. we have two pulley that pull the arms in and out.

We are using the Van door motor for one of those arm. We gear it down so the power in the one arm can move a robot without us moving the base. just in case someone wants to block there stacks.

If you saw are robot last year, we go the same speed. with a little more power. We do have those new drills. and 40 amps.



What about the bar. you guy can go under the bar and do what ?drop our stacks. by then your stacks would also be down. it would come down to who is on top with those points.

People think you need to be at the very top . Just think if there is a robot on the ramp do you think you can power the robot up and over the top. the robot on the top of the ramp looking down at the other robots will have the power of gravity plus there power of the robot.


watch and see what happens. I would say a lot of the point will be gone in the first 15 second. it will be up to the other robots to defend those points. So power this year might come into play.

Agree

okay can you verify your statments to me, first it looks like you are gonna purposly going out to destroy other robots, i say this because most people would not go out and say that they are gonna plow right through other robots and that your team has no problem with destroying the other robots, and then your secods statement looks like you are contradicting your previous statement, i am not trying to start a fight, i am just a little confused

I have not talk with this student yet. But Team 61 plays by the rules. We will not go out and destroy anybodys robot.

Our robot is to move things around. if you look there are no weapons on our robot. I will have a talk with Walter about his statements I am sorry about this.

I didn't mean brake robots i meant push them around and when you start pushing robots around and you defend your spots whether its on the hill or from other robots plowing the tow of buckets over.... Any thing can happen..... I am sorry for the way that i worded that it came out the wrong way....... Well I think team 180 spam had a great robot last year...... The only time they were able to push us around or pull us was when our track broke...... Well i hope to feel better soon so i can post some more and go work on our robot....... Talk to you all later......