The long awaited follow up to the seven stack creating rookie wonder Simbot Sally is here for all to see. Presenting GM & Simbotics, Team 1114's second creation, Simbot Simon.
Here are all the wonderful details:
- 2 wheel, 4 motor (drill and f.p.) strafing drive system, steering with the globe motors.
- 4 independent pneumatic wheel lifters to get us on the decks.
- Omni directional sensors on each each wheel to detect the deck, and automatically raise and lower each wheel. (There is a manual override)
- 13 ft reach on our arm, with 3 degrees of freedom (shoulder, elbow, extension)
- Carbon Fiber gripper
Here's a link to some video of us doing our thing.
www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~imackenz/1114_chassis.wmv
We built two robots, most of the video is with our practice guy.
If there are any questions, please post away.
The team will be competing in Pittsburgh, Long Island, Toronto and Atlanta. Come by the pits and say hi.