pic: FRC 2753, Team Overdrive 2009 Robot
 

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Woot 2753!


I hope that our efforts during the pre-season helped you guys out. I know it wasn't much but hope it helped your members develop the skills they needed for build. Here's to a great year, Tyler!:D

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I saw "overdrive" and i got very confused.

nice looking dumper you got there. whats the ball output/capacity?

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Can you clarify which ruling particularly?

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This ruling outlawed the belt because of the points on it.

http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=11618

We don't really know how much it can hold but its more than 25 balls.

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Jeez thats a lot of wheels!

Can't wait for a video.

-Vivek

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Allow me to be the first to say that their handling is amazing. The robot was well controlled all the time. It was a lot of fun practicing with you guys, despite our technical difficulties...

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Yes, we do love the way it drives.

It was fun practicing with you guys too.

See you in NJ (your going right?).

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Great bot, loving the simplicity in the design and it seems to be very effective. Do i see a rookie regional win this year?:eek:

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This looks great! The top container is a pretty unique design; haven't seen something like that yet.

I look forward to seeing it in action at Javits! =]

One question, what's the shooting range?

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Good luck this year! I'll be seeing you in Trenton! The bot looks great.

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What type banebots transmissions are those?

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There Banebot 540 with fisherprices put in them. There a little hard to come by since there being replaced with the new P60 gearboxes but a few online robot stores have them still.

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Which reduction did you use?

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For NJ and NYC regional it was a 36:1 on the main belt, and 25:1 on the top roller.

In Atlanta we changed it to 25:1 on the main belt and 16:1 on the top roller.

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Did you guys ever have problems with the hopper having a flat bottom, instead of having a sloped bottom to the front where the roller is?

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well the base of the hopper comes up to a slant with the use of what i believe is a window motor. you may have seen this on 103's modification to a power dumper which was a concept they took from 2753.

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Team 11 was one teams to lift their hopper up and dump (using a pneumatic piston). 2753 does the same thing but has rollers in the front aka making it a power dumper. But as pointed out earlier, overdrive uses a window motor.

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I was the field supervisor for the Archimedes Division. The only problem I had with your robot is that every time that you competed I had to have two field reset people swifter the playing field to remove the worn conveyor belt material. Congratulations to your team on a wonderful championship. I expect to see great things from your team in the coming years. See you next year at the championship.

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Haha, yes we did notice that.

We replaced the belt on Thursday with a new one and for some reason the new one shredder like paper. The older ones held up much better, so I am not sure what happened.

Anyway, sorry about that!

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If I remember correctly - Tyler - we changed suppliers of the "shelf-liner" material: Contact versus Kittrich. Also, we used Gel Contact Cement originally -- made by DAP. Our new belt used 4 minute spray contact cement from 3M. The sheddling of the belt did not happen in either NJ or NYC.

Lesson learned: do not change suppliers without adequate testing.:rolleyes: