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EricVanWyk 31-03-2011 18:52
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I forwarded this link to my mom, who is a high school chemistry teacher and FRC mentor. She showed it to her students, and got the expected oooohs and ahhhhhhs.

And then one student asked "What is that?", to which another student said "What I want to work on when I grow up".

synth3tk 31-03-2011 19:16
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Originally Posted by Greg Leighton (Post 1047360)
Amazing, for the first few seconds I thought "why am I just watching a bird fly..." Then it hit me. Wow is all I can say about this one.
That was my reaction.

It's amazing what the human mind can do...

PAR_WIG1350 31-03-2011 20:25
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Originally Posted by JesseK (Post 1047813)
Actually, given that we're allowed FOUR banebots motors this year, there's a good argument for building a quadcopter to pick up the tubes and place them on the rack. It'd be the absolute lightest overall mechanism out there (mainly because it'd HAVE to be in order to fly properly).

I suggested it, but the kids thought I was totally whacko. Heavy sigh.
Maybe I can convince them to try it this offseason. It's actually not that hard.
It sounds awesome. I like to think of controlling the arm as flying it anyway. How would you tether it to the main part of the bot so that it would not get tangled, would be able to fly freely, and not leave the 84 inch cylinder?

JesseK 31-03-2011 22:54
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Originally Posted by PAR_WIG1350 (Post 1047949)
It sounds awesome. I like to think of controlling the arm as flying it anyway. How would you tether it to the main part of the bot so that it would not get tangled, would be able to fly freely, and not leave the 84 inch cylinder?
1.) Make a block of mini anderson connectors, energy chain, and plenty of driver practice to learn the limitations.

2.) An automated tether manager that reels in the energy chain depending on how high the quadrotor is.


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