I was about to come to CD to post this exact video. I'm glad people are getting to see all of the work that our students put into this vision system. It was quite the cool setup in my opinion.
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Originally Posted by Joe Johnson
Sperkowsky, that was a great video. Thanks for pointing it out.
You want to know something funny? I have literally never seen a picture or video of Team 900's robot prior to the whole Harpoon Bot conversion / Chees ecake Controversy thing (don't pick at that sore, it'll never heal. Seriously. Leave it alone -- we don't need another CD thread on Cheesecaking. GAH! I said it again. STOP IT!).
ANYWAY... ...I don't know what I expected but I know I didn't expect this.
As an old timer who has designed more than my fair share of FIRST robots with beefy arms* (<< a Strongbad reference for you youngin' out there), I am impressed. Nice job Zebracorns.
Dr. Joe J.
P.S. I like your arm but I like Overclock's "standard 3 joint arm" better still (engineers have the great misfortune of falling in love with their designs).
*I just did the accounting 85% of the FIRST robots I've had a hand in have had something that could fairly be described as a "Beefy Arm." I haven't done the math but I'd have to guess that this is far higher than the typical population of FIRST robots, even than the typical population of "high end" robots (say those at the IRI). So... I can't argue that I tend to put arms on robots because that is the way to make competitive FIRST robots. No. I am afraid that I just like robots with Beefy Arms.
I should probably get some therapy about that ;-) |
Thank you for the compliments Joe! I'll let you keep the cheesecake.
Seriously, that arm is a beast. It gave us no end of trouble, just ask any of the AndyMark crew about the gearboxes we abused.
We largely borrowed the arm's telescoping design from Team 40's arm (sadly they aren't around but if you dig then you can find pictures). They had the advantage of just moving inner tubes instead of heavy recycling bins though.
We enjoyed working with Nvidia in St Louis and are hoping to collaborate with them more in the future.
EDIT: Flickr gallery of Team 40. Their robot from 2011 was a huge inspiration for our arm design:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/trinityrobotics/