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WOWIE!!!

Very cool. OKay another reason why i cant wait for Boilermaker regional, reason number 867: To check this robot out in person.

Amazing, truely amazing looking.


Great job!

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That has to be one of the coolest looking robots I have ever seen.

Great job guys!

Any chance of a white paper on the monocoque construction method at some point?

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In the summer time, I'll see what I can do to convince the team members to write up something.

Since the photo comments did not post in the forum here is what I said when I posted the picture:

QUOTE again:

"We would like to thank Jerry Smyth and Mike Smyth (father and son) engineering mentors that taught not only the kids but other "sparky" engineering type people like myself how to construct a robot using monocoque. If you don't know monocoque is:

Monocoque is a French word meaning "single shell." Commonly used in aircraft structures in which the outer skin carries all or most of the torsional and bending stresses.

Jerry is a former navy aviator that designed airplanes back in the 60's."

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that robot looks incredible!!... you have a really talented group of kids

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Way cool. Congrats to all.
Now is that the starting position, or a traveling position. It appears in the picture to be too long.

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That's the traveling position. Really the arm will be UP most all the time. That position was just for a picture POSE.. ;-)

We have a few more picture here:
http://www.teamthrust.us/docs/2005/Pictures/final/

Sorry our Gallery on our website is broken...

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NICE! This has to be one of the finest looking robots I have seen in my 10 years in FIRST.

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Congratulations Chris,
That is a very nice robot! I'll look forward seeing it in action at the competitions. And would love to meet with you and your mentors in person.
JOHN

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WOW... Thanks for the additional pics. Well worth checking out.
Cool :cool: Very Cool

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That is certainly one beautiful machine, more like what I would expect to see in BattleBots rather than FIRST ;)

Very nice - but I must say I'm NOT looking forward to competing against you in Lafayette!! :ahh:

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Absolutly beautiful. As everyone else has said, I cant wait to see this at the Boilermaker Regional. How many pop rivets are on that thing? :)
Eric

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This is why I asked for the use of the Wind Tunnel :D
We have one student whose only job is to clean and polish our robot :ahh:
Chris, I didn't make the final build day, what is the all up weight?
The arm only weighs 23 pounds with a cylinder that can produce 150 pounds of lift. Between matches we will be launching items into the stands :ahh: :D
The shipping and starting position is with the arm in it's full up position. This fits into the 28"x38"x60" box with some wiggle room. Bot is roughly 27"x37".
We have a 11' ish reach :)
See you all at the Boilermaker regional.

Wayne Doenegs
CAD Mentor

Lemmings non sumus

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We can't tell you how many rivets. We are going to do a contest and make you guess at our PIT... see you there!


Wayne,

I am pretty sure we weighed in at 100lbs without the battery.

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yes it is a really nice robot it is used for a robot and a movable "mirrior" so if any gals need a mirrior at the BoilerMaker regional come talk to me and you can really see your reflection!!! lol