So how many of you actually have a working minibot/deployment?
 

Im just wondering if minibots will be like tower-hangers last year. To where only about 5-10% of the robots competing had them.

Re: So how many of you actually have a working minibot/deployment?
 

Can you make the thread a poll?

Our team has a working minibot, although we're planning on rebuilding its chassis so it won't be working for a while.

EDIT: It appears someone already made a thread quite like this, link is here:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=92107

Re: So how many of you actually have a working minibot/deployment?
 

There are many similar topics to this... But I believe about 30% of teams will have working minibots, but only 25% of them will actually be deployed... 20% of them will actually make it to the top.. And only 7% will actually do this every match... There are a zillion variables that are between you and the top of that pole...

Re: So how many of you actually have a working minibot/deployment?
 

We have a working deployer, and out minibot runs. It slips a little going up the pole, so it's climbing in about 4 seconds, but we're working on that between now and regionals.

Re: So how many of you actually have a working minibot/deployment?
 

We've got one most of the way built, we just need to actually put it on the robot.

Re: So how many of you actually have a working minibot/deployment?
 

we have a working minibot, and have successfully deployed it from the hostbot under program control. it climbs the polo within about 6 seconds. the deployment and climb are definitely under 10 seconds.

our biggest problem is actually lining up on the pole. alignment has to be pretty close, or deployment doesn't happen.

stay tuned

Re: So how many of you actually have a working minibot/deployment?
 

60% of the time, they will work....everytime.:p

Re: So how many of you actually have a working minibot/deployment?
 

I"m guessing more like 10% to 20% will have them working. We have one that climbs the pole, and we got the deployment system to stick it on the pole today before leaving. The system needs more work, but I think we'll be among the "have" teams.

Re: So how many of you actually have a working minibot/deployment?
 

We finally got ours working today.

Re: So how many of you actually have a working minibot/deployment?
 

Same here, now time to make it deployed properly.

Re: So how many of you actually have a working minibot/deployment?
 

What's the point of having a good minibot if you don't have a reliable deployment system to get them to the pole?

Re: So how many of you actually have a working minibot/deployment?
 

We have one.
See it here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvrbb9g9EHM

Hope I did that right.


Bruce

Re: So how many of you actually have a working minibot/deployment?
 

Looks nice but how are you going to make sure your robot is aligned.

Re: So how many of you actually have a working minibot/deployment?
 

You cant see it in the video but we drop an allignment device off the back of the bot that buts up against the pole base.
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We have a bat, that when released by a servo, gets surgical tubing'd into the tower. Then a pin releases, allowing the minibot to get slung down with its platform having more tubing on it. Fast and little accuracy required.
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Providing if it works when we get it on the robot...