Team 1359 The Scalawags:
Awards/Honors:
(all are from the Pacific Northwest Regional)
Rookie All-Star
Highest Rookie Seed (#2!!)
Imagery Award
Robot Strengths:
-Hangs from the bar VERY consistently
-uses autonomous to knock off yellow 10pt ball
-herds balls
-2 speeds
-gets up and over all steps, no prob
-can be driven from front or back
-hasn't broken down yet!!
How we made these strengths:
-Arm pulls up the robot with two 80lb pneumatics. The joint is worked by a rack-and-pinion device powered by the window motor.
-To herd balls, there are flaps that come down over the front and back with one powered by a small pneumatic kicker device to get the balls into the corral.
-We got the two speeds by designing a transmission that is powered by a drill motor. It shifts on the fly allowing us to go a regular speed and really fast. There are two motor-transmission assemblies on the robot.
-16in wheels allow us to get up the steps
-A switch allows us to have either end be the front
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