Who has a finished robot?
 

I want to see some finished robots. Send some pics. :yikes: :yikes: :yikes: :yikes: :yikes:

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Yeah, our robot is completely done. We always wonder why FIRST gives us 6 weeks... 2 or 3 is sufficient. Sorry, no pics because of bandwidth limitations on our website.

No one is done. I can virtually guarrantee it. :)

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he never said they had to be finished robots for *this* season

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Oh, well in that case...

http://robotics.hightechhigh.org/index.php/robots

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Your robot is never done until the time you put in the crate to ship it. There is always a need of tweaking for something.

but as far as the 1345's robot for this season goes...

... we are pretty much done. Time to tweak, code and LOT OF PRACTICE!

Just like one of my fellow FIRSTers said "Make a gameplan, stick with it because consistancy is the key."

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I walked into robotics today and I saw what looks the frame. It vaugely looks like what we have in CAD but much more majestic. This is all that I'm at liberty to say on CD. Guess you'll have to come to FLR to see the bot for yourselves :)

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I know what "finished" means, and I know what "robot" means, but what is this "finished robot" of which you speak?

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Done when you put it in the crate?, Last year ours wasnt done until we got it back from the regional in a crate.

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For ours, we can say that we are almost done. Three weeks in and a 75% complete robot---what we usually are by the 6th week.

We have:

Drive/Chassis - Final Form minus battery holder (We are using the Super-CIM-powered chain-drive 8-wheeled system)
Harvester - Prototype completed and will construct tomorrow
Shooter - Prototype done (and it flies the balls much farther and faster than we have to, but that's really good)
CMU camera - assembled, takes pictures, but still need to configure it to track it
Autonomous Code - depends on CMU Camera
Autodesk Animation - Storyboard long since done, working on building actual animation now

Good news: It looks like that we're way underweight (drive's only around 40-lbs) so we can put extra stuff on the robot once we finish construction. We'll have pics as soon as we bring "Pedro" (our robot) to life.

This is a whole lot farther than where we were for the last 3 years of our existence. And we have weight and time problems solved. Just some calibration bugs us Programmers have to work out.

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Thank you. I haven't had a good laugh all day. We were similarly optimistic last year (adding heavy crash bars) only to find out that we were 1-1/2 pounds overweight. Of course we were originally overweight by about 30 pounds in 2004...

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I'm sorry, but in my 3 years of FRC, and 5 of FLL (wow, that makes me sound really old :rolleyes: ) I've yet to see a "finished" robot. I've seen incredible robots, but never a finished one. If you have ever "finished" a robot, you're just no looking hard enough for something to improve! :ahh:

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Ours go all the way back to '92

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Last year we somehow managed to finish 3 1/2 weeks into the build season, no such luck this season!

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I've learned never to say never when it comes to FIRST teams. Frankly, I guarantee you that at least one team is done at this point.

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I think it all depends on what is considered a "finished" robot. If you mean the entire robot is built, then yes, some teams are probably done. However, I believe a truly finished robot is one that is not only competition ready, but is also programmed to the best of the programmer's abilities and has no room for improvement. In this case, no team will ever finish by ship date. I'm hard pressed to imagine that a programmer has EVER felt they cannot do any more to improve the code

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My team is not finished yet but it seems you guys could help me out, how do i program my robot to have a motor spin counter clockwise when i pull the trigger on the joystick, then released it stops turning the motor, and when i press the thumb button i want the motor to spin clockwise. I am using easyc and i was wondering how to write that code. Please help.

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Done???? What does this word mean? In FIRST, no robot is "done" until at least after the last competition of the year (offseason or otherwise). And we still aren't done with our '04 bot--it's been used as a practice bot for last year and a sensor testbed this year. (I know of a team that modified their robot in a big way between Championship and IRI last year. 'Nuff said.)

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search in the easy-c section of the programming forum. if it's not there, post

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if(p1_sw_trig==1)
pwm01=0;
else if(p1_sw_trig==0)
pwm01=127;

if(p1_sw_top==1)
pwm01=255;
else if(p1_sw_top==0)
pwm01=127;


This is how you would do it in mplab...not sure if it will work in easy c.

The "p1's" in the "if's" are dependent on what port your joystick is plugged into in the OI. If your joystick is plugged into port 2- change it to p2_sw_trig.

Also...the ""pwm01" should be changed to whatever pwm your motor is connected to. You should also check if the thumb button is p1_sw_top...it could also be p1_sw_aux1 or p1_sw_aux2.

Please tell me if I confused you and I will try to make it simpler.

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When we mean finished, we mean "it's working in full, functional form," not "let's sell this as the next GM hybrid." And by the first definition, we're shooting for a completely-constructed bot by Thursday (and it gives me time to work on my other duties: awards.)

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I understand what you are saying, however i am not building it in MPLAB, if i was to build it there is there a defualt code that already is programmed to drive the bot. In easyc i need to know what to drag and drop into the code(pwm control, OI to Digital output, OI to analog, and that whole list) what i would drag and drop.

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Then I cannot help much, since my team is not using much of the EasyC yet.

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I would not use '0' or '255' as PWM #s. Use '1' and '254'. two '255's in a row indicate end of packet and can cause some erratic behavior.

I havent looked at easy C but you should be able to look at the code behind each icon and edit it, thus the code above should be useable.

Good luck.

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Our robot can't drive yet. :ahh:

We've got our priorities backwards; we have several of the harder aspects done to the point where they work decently well, but the "easier" things we have yet to finish. Now we're trying to get it to the point where we can have our drive team start playing with it to figure out what needs to be changed. We're way behind where we were this time last year, but that's because we're pushing our limits a lot more this year. I just hope it can move before ship date... :eek:

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I suppose you could say that robots are never done with, until they are permanently sitting in the robot grave yard.

But as for finished robots for this season, I doubt any team is done just yet. Even if they were, there would still be brainstorming of how to make it better.

:cool:

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We've already been informed by our mechanical group today that with how things are going building wise, we'll have ~3 days to actually test code. No finished robots anytime soon at our school.

We have most (or all) of the chassis built, the problem is electrical is way behind (all new people and difficulty in getting engineers in to help put us there), and they still have to finish alot of the "extra" parts that go on the chassis.

Programming we've managed to jump from no code to almost all manual control done in only 3 days.

I'll check Easy C tonight and try to figure that one out.

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That's correct. But I do not speak of team 25. Or do I...

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3 days? That's 72 hours of pure testing! Luxury!

Two years ago, our team didn't finish our bot until the last hour of pit day (that's not really legal anymore), and we spent entirely too much time creatively shedding weight in the pits. So, as you might imagine, the code wasn't, err, optimal. Last year we had plenty of time with the kitbot, but the final bot wasn't really ready until ship day (with some substantial changes), so it was again a lot of pit engineering getting the code up to snuff.

That said, our team this year seems to be in good shape, especially with respect to the building, and the software is coming along nicely with incremental features added. This year's bot will never be "done", it will just keep getting better and better.

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*gasp* robot? what robot? we were suppose to build a robot?

we've only began, but we'll get there. :)

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well, our team isn't actually building a robot, we're covering our team leader in foil. so, technically we are finished. we just have to figure our shipping and handling packages.

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Your missing a key element to that sentence. Through my experienc e a robot is only done when you put it in the crate to ship it HOME!!

Every year my team has made a number of modifications on the practice day, and even right up until just before the final match. So I don't think the robot is ever finished until the competition is done.

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i wish ours was done so i could get some sleep

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i would reccomend other than foil. it may be illegal from the interfering with other robot's camera rule.

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Team #39 CAN climb the ramp!

Ken

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the builders say they need like.... 1-3 more days and they're done. This is kinda creepy since they always finish when they say they will. When the other programmer and I heard this, we got this evil look in our eyes and began writing our top-secret code... (we were already pretty much finished coding, but then we got this idea....)

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Team 1712's robot is pretty much done on the mechanical side. We still need to mount the electronics and do a little more tweaking once we test a few things out, but It's been a pretty smooth process so far... except for that day were we changed the chassis design about 3 times...

Re: Who has a finished robot?
 

But can your robot?

(Thank you, folks, thank you. I'll be here all week. Tell your friends!)

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Our team is getting there. Designs are finalised (they'd better be, or we'll start forcing them to build things), and we have all the pieces to put it together at least partially assembled. Mechanical says we should have a drivable robot by the end of Monday or Tuesday, they might even have the shooter mounted on the rotator by Wednesday.

Electrical is almost done with the electrical board on the robot, and now that the frame has finally been finished for the control board are putting that together. There's a few sensors that need to be mounted, but the shooter has to be on the robot first.

Programming is basically finished with all manual controls. The next 2 weeks will be spent writing autonomous functions and fixing all the errors we find in the manual control.

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[quote=Rick TYler]But can your robot?

Rick!

You caught me! This is the rumor mill!

Ken

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evil look??? new idea??? sounds a lot like me when i've come up with a new plan to take over the world....
hopefully we will start driving today, but were not exactly sure....

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1023 is probably around 85-90% done mechanically and definitely fine weight wise :) We've driven our robot and everything already as well (did that on Monday or Tuesday).

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we're not done yet. ya. Cory

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Rick,

You forced my hand. See the picture galleries for 39 climbing the ramp. We are tethered but moving at this point.

Ken

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Man..... Our team doesn't have a finished robot, our programming is still working on autonomous mode and mechanical team is currently working to make the robot a 'robot'. But we are still going and making progress..




*I think* :rolleyes:

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Sorry, this is out of place but nice animation.