Posted by Anton Abaya at 1/24/2001 9:44 PM EST
Coach on team #419, Rambots, from UMass Boston / BC High and NONE AT THE MOMENT!
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In Reply to: The Ultimate Operator Interface
Posted by JVN on 1/24/2001 1:25 PM EST:
: We usually just mount the controls on Lexan, no muss, no fuss... Our real shine comes from the Operator Interface... Our control guys have some insane hatred of joysticks... I've included a pic of last years. We sand casted the steering wheel, it is solid aluminum. There are paddles mounted on the back of the wheel for throttle (forward=right, reverse=left)
: The other control box (with the lexan arm on it) controls the mechanisms of the robot. (arm, tracks up and down, servos)
: The coolest component is the laptop, it displays realtime feed back from the robot to the drivers. It keeps track of time, shows arm height, and ther general status of the entire robot. (it also randomly flashes "Danger, overload" with 30 seconds left in each match...just to make us drivers go nuts)... We also had a HUD (heads up display) that suctioncupped onto the glass of the driver station, it displayed some of the laptop data, but didn't require the drivers to look down.
: I hope some of you guys came to our pit last year to see this, it really was cool...
: ~John #250
: PS: wait till you see this years...mwuhahaha
nice nice nice nice nice nice nice nice...!
i should spam this place. those are NICE controls
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it inspires me...
-anton