Team 340 Minibot teaser
 

ALAN! ALAN! ALAN! AL! ALAN!

2.7 Seconds Depending on who you ask. Still in "heavy mode".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXiRApqh3zM

See you at FLR, Chesapeake and St. Louis!

(The video that inspired the name)

Ask for an Alan Wrench enough times and all of a sudden all you hear is...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hwLbhpatJo

I hope everyone is having a great build season.

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Hahahaha good stuff guys. Looks pretty good for your minibot.

By the way, my favorite is playing a little game of Nighttime Daytime

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That looks very nice!

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Awesome! Looks very promising! And you say it is still in light mode? Now I am scared.

what intrigues me the most is how small of a profile it has. That little piece of paper covers the whole bot.

Keep up the good work!

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Nice work guys. How late were you at the shop last night?
The robot is under the foam board. (Alan) I'm guessing we still have a bit of weight reduction to do.

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About 1:15 am :)

I just wanna say how proud I am of our minibot subteam group. They put in about a 16 hour work day on Saturday starting at 9AM. They keep pushing forward, willing to try new things, and I'm so happy with the progress we're making.

Some stats on "Alan"- our minibot:
- He weighs 2.88 lbs total- required Tetrix battery (~1.3 lbs) and Tetrix motor (~.5 lbs) leaves the rest of Alan to weigh about 1 lb. We've made him as light as possible, with a couple more tenths of a pound to still shave off.
- He's somewhere between 12 and 14 inches long.
- I guess the rest you'll have to see at FLR, Chesapeake, and St. Louis! ;)

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Looks good guys. I like the second video much better then the first one in your post.

The bot looks a little different then from when I left last night. ;)

See ya in a couple months on the field.

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Aww, a moving piece of foam board! So cute!

Isn't Alan a little too long still?

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LOL. Does it go down? :D

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It's a square box measuring box, remember 2007?

Thanks for the encouragement everyone.

Alan! Alan! Al!

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<R91> The MINIBOT may not exceed a 12” x 12” x 12” volume and weigh no more than 15 lbs. MINIBOTS will be inspected for the volume constraint by being placed in a five-sided box with internal dimensions of 12" x 12" x 12". If the lid (the sixth side of the cube) does not seat properly, the MINIBOT does not pass this part of the MINIBOT inspection.

This means that your minibot can be placed in the box in any matter... doesn't need to be constrained to 12"Wide x 12"Long x 12"Tall... A squared+B squared= C squared :)

Not yet. That's next on our list to be finalized. :) Our solution shouldn't add any weight though.

ALAN! AL! AL! ALAN!

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Ah! Silly me for not thinking outside the box...er, for not thinking about turning the box! Darn squares that have diagonals longer than the sides!

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Haha, good luck! We've yet to put ours together, but the entire design is pretty much completed: http://penfieldrobotics.com/wiki/ind...hanical_1_1.26

:D

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I'm just jealous that your school allows subteams to meet without the lead mentor (that'd be me in 1551's case) being there...

If I'm not there, nobody can be there. Them's the rules!

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On our manufacturing team, we cannot do any shop work until the mentors come also. We still work before that on ideas and CADing, but it takes a lot of our time out of it.