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the worm gears to raise the arm or.....the dong!

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I would have to say besides our drivesystem, it would defintely be the kicker underneath the claw that we used to kick the ball foward over the overpass, it was shaped like a high heel and was just a comical/cool looking part of the robot.

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our linkage drive! Pretty much for how new of a system it is, it kept up with everyone on the field (it even matched 1114 for some of the time :D)


I love our linkage!!

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Our Team.

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That is cool! What a fun idea!

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our boot :) to kick the ball around.

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For us, it has to be the ball gripper, or more to the point, What folks thought it was before they saw it in action. Leaf blower with was best guess :-)

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/30275

Quick vid of it working

PS: how do you put in thumbnails?

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Beat me to it.

Our team had a lot of random decals all over it this year, it was awesome. "Are you guys really sponsored by MAE?" That was the best line of the year I heard.

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http://geekzilla201.no-ip.org/files/...s/100_2686.jpg

We may not have been able to do much, but this got a few laughs.

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The coolest thing on our robot was the IR Control. We had the most powerful IR system in the world on our robot. We had complete control over the robots direction during hybrid and could consitanly get 4 Lines and sometimes a ball.

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One of the coolest things is probably not on the robot itself. Our IR controller was a hardhat with 24 led lights on the front. The hat then ran down to the control box and a nine volt battery.
The coolest things technically on our robot may have been the big yellow 'banana' arms, because they were made to be replaced every 2 matches, but we found out that when they bent, we could just bend them back, so we got a good few matches out of each set of arms. Or maybe our coaches old WOBOT license plate.

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I would have to say our hoop. Not only did it win us the Xerox Creativity Award at the Buckeye, I used it to get out of a tight situation in one match. Because the robot has simple center-wheel drive, it can get stuck if one or both of the center wheels is/are lifted off the ground. When this happened on one of the plates stabilizing the overpass, I was able to use the hoop to push against the lane divider and move the robot back onto the track.

It also ended up being much stronger than we expected. See for yourself.

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This way by far the most innovative way of grabbing the ball I saw all year. Sadly, while their bot wasn't always the most effective and couldn't hurdle, 2106 had hands-down the coolest manipulator.

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For 1771 it would have to be the shooter / grabber. The coolest part is the way the whole team got involved. After some initial doubt about the feasibility of a vacuum grabber, all the kids gave input into the final design. As a first year FIRST mentor, I was amazed at what they were able to accomplish. This feature won them the Delphi Innovation trophy at Peachtree, as well as the Xerox creativity award at Championships.

See photos here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/mwilson417/RobotPictures

Early scrimmage highlight video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeQSGmFnKAE

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Its kind lame considering most of the cool responses,
But we have some nifty mechanim wheels, and our tubes are anodized to our colors which looks AWESOME.

And we used to have a cool drum for our lift with a cool swirley design that looked awesome when it spun.