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Originally Posted by cromat44
I'm sorry,
but I believe our robot was the loudest... Even at 20% of the max speed the refs constatly said it was too loud and annoying.
Too bad I won't be at the cal games to truly see which team has the loudest robot ever.
I really wish I could check yours out because I can't even imagine a robot being more obnoxious...
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heh heh - I smell a new award in the making: "Most Obnoxious Robot"!!!
I think that Team 116 would certainly have been a contender with their robot from 2003. That year we used treads, with large tread "bumps" that interacted with the sprockets on the interior of the treads. A series of 3-inch long 1/4-20 spacer bolts held the side plates of our drive modules in place. The spacer bolts just happened to be positioned so they just barely cleared the bumps on the treads as the treads were running. So we took a set of 2-1/2 inch lengths of copper plumbing pipe, and put one loosely over each spacer bolt. The pieces of pipe were thus positioned so that every time one of the tread bumps hit it, the pipe was slammed into the spacer bolt with a nice loud metal-on-metal "clang!" With two treads running at about 9 feet per second over 12 of these pipe-covered bolts, we were pounding out about 2600 very loud impacts per second. We never actually stuck a decibel meter up against the thing to know exactly how loud it was. But it was loud enough that when it was running in the pits at the Richmond Regional, you could hear it out on the playing field over the sound of the amplified music from the DJ!
-dave