Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

Here is Roccobot 2k6 in action.

Enjoy! :D

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

Amazing. Very interesting idea of how to get the balls to the shooter, while using the entire collection mechanism as a ball hopper/holder too.

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

Kinda awesome, i like the drum design a lot!!

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

I REALLY like the reverse spiral. It looks really cool when all the balls are going up and not down the spiral and then out the cannon of doom! Looks great and I can’t wait to see you guys again at nats!

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

What's the range of your shooter?

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

now that was seriously, no joke, the best hopper/feeder system i've seen in the forums. good job. i was cursing to myself.

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

Another truly excellent(and pink!) robot. I love the spiral hopper, awesome idea, really fantastic, off the charts clever. (My team's hopper is very similar ;))

Looks like you have a solid autonomous mode along with all the mechanical pieces worked out. Probably also another beefy drive train. Just one question: does the shooter still pan? From the pictures it looked like it did but in the videos you didn't seem to use that feature.

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

Brilliant. It's unusual that I see something on CD that hadn't come up in our wargaming sessions, but yours clearly qualifies. I'm punishing my son severely for not thinking of this. :)

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

once again, impressive. good luck to all teams facing them!

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

WoW! Nice Bot. I was impressed with the screw storage. I wondered if anyone would attempt it. You perfected it.
Good luck.

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

We can shoot balls anywhere starting from the base of the ramp, to about fifteen feet away from that point. We do not have an exact measurement. We will know for sure after our first regional (UCF).

We have the camera programmed to "lock-on" to the green light once it sees it. But if we need to pan the shooter, we can override it, and have our gunner manually control it.

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

I like it!

Its a very 233 robot :D

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

Another great robot from the Space Coast! This one definitely goes on my list of robots to hunt down and see in Atlanta.

-dave

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

how to control the ball distance... are you controlling shooter speed or are you changing the angle of the shooter...
either way i am scared...

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

wow gotta say from what ive seen that drum is a 1 of a kind inovation this year and it works a lot better than i imagined... great work guys!!! cant wait to see you running at boston!!!

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

We have a set RPM for the shooter, and it sends our balls flying in a parabolic trajectory (an arc). This increases the range we have to sink our balls in, without having a mechanism to manipulate the angle of the shooter. This takes some of the guess work away when it comes to shooting during competitions. :)

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

From the look of your ball collecting mechanism, it would seem as if you'd have a problem picking up two balls that were sitting next to each other as they enter the cutout in your frame, and transition to the single ball width of your helix.

Has this been a problem for you in testing? I know our team and others have been experiencing problems here.

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

We were worried about that too before we started testing, but actually we havent really had any problems with that. The way we pick up balls is not large enough for two balls to fit in side-by-side... its just large enough for maybe one and a half balls. Just as long as we arent driving too fast, we wont end up eating two balls at once. As one ball is being sucked up, the other one either patiently waits its turn, or it gets squashed underneath the robot as we accidentally run over it. those are just about the only problems we had during testing... that, and rarely, balls will get jammed either at the bottom or the top of the Archemedies Screw (aka the spiral), but that is easily undone with a little pursuasion on the Gunner's behalf. :)

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

great robot. im surprised my team and i didnt think the spiral hopper up... man o man i really hope ur on our alliance :D :cool:

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

hey guys! greetings from one of the team members from 522!! see u guys have a nice robot this year, hope to see it sometime! later

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

Looks like another innovative robot from think pink. I'm looking forward to seeing it run at UCF.

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

I like how it is on google video :ahh: That's pretty awesome.

Nice work too! :yikes: I was too busy working on the scouting software to get out to see the actual robot this year but it looks great and I can't wait to see it in action at UCF.

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

Whoa! they painted it pink this year!

Awesome once again. I simply can't wait to see it in a couple weeks. How tall is your shooter mounted?

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

The entire robot is about one inch below the height requirement (sixty inches). And the shooter is roughly eight inches in height. So the shooter sits about fifty-one inches off the ground.

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

Is it possible to reverse the spiral and harvester so you can release the balls into the corner goals just in case something goes wrong with the shooter and you cant use it. God forbid, but if you could reverse everything than you have one heck of a robot there.

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

Yes, we can reverse the drum so if we have to, we can spit balls into the ball corrals (corner goals). Sorry, no video of that in action; just wait for UCF.

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

As usual you guys have scared me lol, cant wait to see you guys in action!

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

do you guys have difficulties with balls jamming?

Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!
 

not really... but we only got in about 3 hours worth of testing just before we shipped the robot... so i guess you'll find out how much of a problem it is when we do: at UCF.