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103. With the same lift and gripper design as 25, this machine is one of the best bots we have ever created. (Pictures courtesy of Kelly Szymanowski(my sister))
- 6wd 1/10 drop center drive with 8" AM preformance wheels driven by all four cims with AM super shifter (pneumatic actuating) allowing for speeds up to 16 FPS in high and 8 FPS in low
- Essentially the same gear-driven drive-train for the past four years with some slight, but ever so helpful tweaks (Hex shafts new this year)
- Three stage lift driven by four BB 775's with worm-drive transmission (to eliminate backdriving)
- Inside tube gripper actuated by a pneumatic cylinder allowing for universal and simple pickup (extremely good for transporting tubes also)
- Gripper tilt (pneumatic actuated) to allow for extremely easy capping
- 1.4 second minibit, total of about 1.8 second MB+deployment
- Scored two high logos alone most matches without defense
- Plays very well against defense
- Can even play some great defense (we only know this because our belt came loose one match, which by the way is fixed)
- Hangs Ubertube for the majority of the matches, but with two slight timing changes, we will have it 100%
The biggest problem we have is the swaying of the tower. It was designed with a spring system in the bottom, but it swayed way too much with that, so we added a strut with a dampener to make it more sturdy. That solved that problem for the most part. Other than that, I would say our second biggest weakness is our minibot deployment. It is not extremely fast, but it is reliable. The only problem with deployment is that we use the shifters to launch it out, so we cannot switch gears until the end of the match or the minibot will launch without us wanting it to.