Thread: Release of the 2005 Technokat's "Sky Hook"
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Re: Realse of the 2005 Technokat's "Sky Hook"
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Originally Posted by Ogre
That is a ton of buttons on your control board. What do they all do?
Not all are buttons. Some are blinky lights. Ooooh. Aaah. More work was done on this OI after the pic was taken. I was hoping that the students who created this masterpiece would post more on this, but they are playing possum.

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Originally Posted by ebmonon36
Looks like another great robot to look forward to at BMR...That is gonna be an awesome regional. How similar is that arm to last year's?
Eric
This year's arm is the KatsKlaw arm on "the juice". Instead of a 24 dp turret gear (04), this is a 12 dp turret gear with a 3/4" face. Last year's arm had a 20" vertical stroke, and this year's has a 22". Last year's elbow was this wimpy worm gear that broke about 7 times during the year. This year's elbow uses 2 kit boxes, an Atwood motor, some 35 series chain and a go-kart sprocket. ugh.

One night, at practice our 2 experienced drivers were getting out of hand with the arm. They were picking up goals made from aluminum pipe and they even started to pick up our 2004 robot before a few of us mentors started yelling at them. It is a wicked arm. We tried breaking it, and ended up bending the top of the aluminum mast, but after adding some gussets to the weak areas, it is way strong.

Ok, I will shut up now.

Andy B.