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Originally Posted by Joe Ross
That's what we did in 2007. I think we missed only once in about 50 matches.
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This is good to hear... though, you guys had more than Thursday at a regional to test
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Originally Posted by KleinKid
Team 3735 is earliy similar to this but our system is a little more sturdy i think. We used 1" aluminum inside of 1.5" aluminum and instead of gravity for extension we rigged up a 1.5" bore pneumatic piston. Being able to retract the arm during the game makes driving around and placing tubes on the rack much easier.
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We'd love to do something like that, but we wanted to keep it a little simpler and we didn't want to commit to pneumatics when we were designing it Congrats on your accomplishment! I'm sure your robot will kick our butt on the field.
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I'm very jealous and curious of your 7 victor controlers on your electronics board. 4 are probably for the CIM motors on your drivetrain but what are the other three used for other than controling the arm?
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As for our electronics board, we set it up before the design was finalized so it has 9 Victors. Plus one for a Spike for the compressor (we shouldn't need it at all with our single piston and 6.5 air tanks, but free ballast!). Originally we planned for 6 drive motors, 1 arm motor, and two motors for a roller claw, but we scrapped the roller claw with the success of our pneumatic. We're keeping the 8th and 9th on just as a spare.
I'm really proud of the extra mile we went to make a modular, removable electronics board this year. Every single plug is hooked up to an Anderson connector. Just one "click" and we're wired up.