Here is a picture and a render of Bear Metal's 2012 practice robot which is functionally the same as our competition robot. I admit that parts of our bot are a little crazy, but our 12 designers had a lot of fun keeping our fabricators busy.
We are excited to be attending both the Autodesk Oregon Regional and the Seattle Cascade Regional.
A few details:
4 Cim drive through a single speed custom gearbox using AM gears for a 8:1 gear ratio
Skid steering with ten 4" AM performance wheels which are cantilevered. This sounds superfluous, but we decided to use small wheels to maximize our wheel base since we're driving wide.
A pneumatic "multi-tool" aids in traversing the barrier and manipulating the ramp up and down. It also fits nicely uner the ramp, stabalizing it to expedite the balancing of our two allies.
It has a turret combined with a wheeled shooter which shoots at a fixed angle.
Two vertically mounted pneumatic cylinders in the back aid in a three robot balance scenario.