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Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank

Team 254, NASA Ames Robotics "The Cheesy Poofs", proudly presents our 2013 robot, Overkill.



(See team254.com/2013frc for more details and a photo without the text.)

Robot features:

• Quick and highly maneuverable 6-wheel drive. Driven by 6 motors in two-speed gearboxes with max speed of 20+ ft/sec
• Fast and reliable two-disc-wide intake acquires discs from floor, aligns them and indexes them in conveyor
• Dual angle adjustable-range shooter shoots discs from many positions on the near side of field
• Fast, high-powered conveyor and lifter mechanism ensure reliable feeding of discs into shooter
• Fast and reliable 10 point hanging mechanism can lift robot to hang from bar at the match end buzzer
• Quick 30 point hang mechanism lifts robot to top of pyramid with 2000+ watts of power from a drive gearbox power take-off (PTO)

Overkill will compete at the San Diego Regional, the Silicon Valley Regional, and the FIRST Championship.

Team 254 is sponsored by NASA Ames Research Center, BAE Systems, Ooyala, Gilbert Spray Coat, Pacific Coast Metal, Modern Machine, Polytec Products, S&S Welding, Good Plastics, Vivid-Hosting, Lumenetix, Arteris, Alta Energy, The Kumar Family, The Schnoor Family, Central Concrete, and Bellarmine College Preparatory.

Nice beautiful robot as always.
I particularly like the bolded above. Comes in handy when trying to unload the last set of 4 discs with less than 5 seconds left.