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It looks pretty sweet so far, and definitely looks like a great PR tool for your team. Although I have only one question on the design: is there any sort of suspension for the mecanum wheels?
The reason I ask this is because if one drives a holonomic/mecanum drive robot on anything that isn't perfectly flat, one wheel may lift up just enough to really screw up the geometry of the vector forces from the wheels, causing the robot to spin around in some weird (and unexpected) direction. If you search through CD Media, you can find pictures (link this one from XBOT 488) where teams used racquetballs or pieces of rubber tubing to act as a suspension for the mecanum drive bogie. |
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good point, and they've taken it into consideration.
![]() But the bolts could be bigger.....and it's definitely not designed to withstand competition! |
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Nice paint. :cool:
Does it look like something you'd want to do for your competition robots? (the paint, I mean ;)) |
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Is that tank PVC? Hasn't there been a history of PVC tanks exploding in a million little shards? Or has the properties of PVC pipe changed?
I hope it's safe now... it would really cut down the cost of my up-comming T-Shirt cannon project! -q |
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The robot is beautiful, by the way, and really makes for a professionally made product. |
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Hmmm.... Looks like a pretty fun toy!
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put a denim pant leg over the PVC tank
that's what I heard you're supose to do :) |
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but duct tape fixes everything from bleeding wounds to nuclear war...
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There is no pvc chamber on this robot!
The barrel is pvc, though. |
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awesome, i want one!!!
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That is one sweet shirt shooter, I gotta make me one to shoot at the deer that eat my shrubbery in the winter. (The idea is to make them wear the shirts - the other deer will laugh at them and maybe they'll stop dining here) Don [Note: No, I'm not really going to do that! It's a joke.] |
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They did some work on it last night, after an experiment with the compressor from the 2006 FRC robot showed that it would shoot fine on about 10 seconds of compressor run time after opening the reservoir "fill" valve. We stuck a pressure gage on it, and that is only about 30 psi in the reservoir! One thing that helps, is that there is a Clippard tank that fills (quickly) to about 70 psi, then this air goes into the reservoir (evens out at 20 psi) and the compressor adds about one psi per second of run time. The Clippard tank is on there mainly to provide pressure for the "fire" pneumatic cylinder.
So, no need for the CO2 system, which makes me happy from a safety perspective. |
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For those who are interested, today we were at the school filming for a show for the local cable company, and we found the new system actually works better than the co2 did. We shot quite a few shots (more than a 20oz co2 tank would have allowed, I think) and the cannon shows a range between 40 and 60 yards, while the best we got with the co2 system was around 30 yards.
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Where did you get the release valve for the launcher? Is that a pneumatically actuated gate valve?
Great looking launcher! |
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it has a light side and a dark side and it holds the universe together BTW this is from a t-shirt but i couldnt resist:ahh: |
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