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do you want a cookie or something?

Re: pic: T3 Controlls (team 68 truck town thunder)
 

What?

As for the other, more straigntforward commets/questions, it is an automotive neon light, bought for a cheap 15 bucks at a local walmart.

Let me clarify the drill housing. We broke a drill, or took one apart at the very least. So, we were left with the plastic case that everything goes into. We trimmed it to fit, and wired connectors to the teminals. so all it really is, is a housing that a battery slides into.

We also wired a switch on the dongle/battery which allows us to switch between AC and DC power. Long story short, we can use the battery to power our operator interface. This should make tethering a lot more "wireless".

Thanks again for all the comments

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What do you use the ignition switch for? To turn on/off the power to the LEDs, Neon lights, OI?

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The Ignition is a disabler for the built-in dongle. When the key is not inserted, or turned to the right, it acts as "diabled", otherwise, it enables it.

Next to it is a safety switch for autonomous testing, which is more or less a joke on our programmers.

Here's the story...

We were showing some of the high-up engineers who wanted to see what we had done so far the robot. And, this happened to be the first night that it could move. SO, we had it on the field, and we had it wired correctlly (this time) and everythign was great. Well, Aucther, one of our programmers, told me to flip a dial on the joystick (filter), all the way down, as i would get ore acceleration. Whups. As i tapped the sticks to see which way the bot was facing, it flew towards our team leader and the group of engineers. another tap in the oppisite direction sent it into the wall. I pulled the key, and almost strangled mike. Your a good guy thou, aucther!

Anyways, the switch is "on" when we are testing our very dangerous robot, and it moves on its own, so we have to take extra caution!

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OH NO I'M EATING YOUR COOKIE!!!! : [[[[[[[[[[[[

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The tether cable powers the OI. If you're tethered to a live robot, you're powered.

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Yes, however, for robot demonstrations, you require an ac adaptor to run the robot without a thether. We no longer need to have the controlls plugged in while doing demos. This means that we can drive the bot at parades much easier.

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Very, very SHINY!!
/me stares into reflection

Are you trim adjustments exposed? If not, you may want to make the joystick openings a little bigger.
And does that think have a handle? I feeel very sorry for the driver that has to carry it all the time. Way to much responsibility trying not to damage it.
I felt bad handling the painted board ours were on. :)