|
Re: pic: 2791 Starting Configuration
One positive this weekend: We weighed this robot, with a claw made of round 1/8" wall aluminium instead of the wood used here, along with a few other weight increasing parts.
The robot weighed only 100 pounds. 20 pounds under, and everything on this bot is 1/8" wall.
Minimalism is beautiful.
One thing that turned out to be no problem was arm retraction. We took a full speed hit to the end of the arm without a scratch. The PVC's give was perfect for this. All we had to do was drive with the arm up in the air to score, and with our freakishly low CG it was very easy to do.
We had a lot of bad luck at WPI, but at least some of the cool stuff worked the way we wanted it to.
__________________
Mentor / Drive Coach: 228 (2016-?)
...2016 Waterbury SFs (with 3314, 3719), RIDE #2 Seed / Winners (with 1058, 6153), Carver QFs (with 503, 359, 4607)
Mentor / Consultant Person: 2170 (2017-?)
---
College Mentor: 2791 (2010-2015)
...2015 TVR Motorola Quality, FLR GM Industrial Design
...2014 FLR Motorola Quality / SFs (with 341, 4930)
...2013 BAE Motorola Quality, WPI Regional #1 Seed / Delphi Excellence in Engineering / Finalists (with 20, 3182)
...2012 BAE Imagery / Finalists (with 1519, 885), CT Xerox Creativity / SFs (with 2168, 118)
Student: 1714 (2009) - 2009 Minnesota 10,000 Lakes Regional Winners (with 2826, 2470)
2791 Build Season Photo Gallery - Look here for mechanism photos My Robotics Blog (Updated April 11 2014)
Last edited by Chris is me : 13-03-2011 at 01:53.
|