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so, when are we going to see a video of this beast in action? :p


hmm, i see a connection with this photo. :)

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However, Update #16 indicated that FIRST is changing the seeding algorithm to fix the issue that ocurred.

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Muahahahahahaha......;)

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Well not crazy, just wanting to test out the new articulating 6 wheel drive frame. I was messing with the practice one last night for a bit and it was pushing Denny (~260lbs) around with no problem. I would like to put it up against FRC 25 some time this season though to see what kind of off season improvements might be needed... See you guys possibly tonight, if not, for sure bright and early tomorrow morning.

Re: pic: Team 1114 -- Simbot Prime
 

can someone post a video of their robot, please, i want to see how this thing works and I can't wait till Waterloo or GTR

thanks

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So how has it been preforming?

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=D Simbot Prime!

How I wish I could've gone to GLR...I look forward to reading up on the events at the competition. Next best thing to being there, right?...

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I'm big on tying up loose ends. So, this is a little bit overdue, but here's early footage of how Team 1114's ramp worked this year. There were a few improvements made through out the season, but you'll get the basic idea.

Yup, you can see the flag holder in all it's glory...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7U2aYuUeUyQ

Enjoy.

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I'm thinking of a sentence.

It starts with Holy.

It ends with Cow.
(and it's followed by "man, I should've watched Curie more")

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Check it out! A real life transformer!:D

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We named it Simbot Prime for a reason. :p

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So did one pin release everything?

That's some pretty fancy flagwork, by the way.

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One thing the video doesn't show is that the ramp also has a winch that lifts it up to horizontal. One robot slides up onto the two 'beach bars' above the arm, and the other climbs the ramp and then gets lifted.

Well, pretty much - one pair of pins at the base of the arm release and allow it fall forward, which pulls down the 'beach bars', which pull out a couple pins at the end of the ramp, and after that everything just sort of springs out. Perhaps more complex than it should have been, but we wanted a very shallow ramp (I think it ended up at 16 degrees) that still went up to 15" or so to allow for overhanging wheels, and to do that the ramp had to be quite long. To get the length while staying in the 4' height class and staying wide enough for a wide-wheelbase robot required some trickery. (Actually, between Championship and IRI we added a couple extra supports that flipped out and supported the upper corners of the ramp - during the regular season a few teams drove off the corner of the ramp and put a nasty bend in it.)

Yes, that took way longer than it should have. It was a classic case of not designing something in from the beggining, figuring it would be a trivial thing to slap on later, and as a result wasting a whole lot of time near the end of build season.

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I have one more question.

Who designed this?! :ahh:

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And, as it turns out, probably unnecessary. I don't know how many bots I saw this season competing with flag holders that didn't stay anywhere close to vertical when it wasn't convenient - and they were allowed to compete that way.