View Single Post
  #3   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 31-01-2009, 16:40
thefro526's Avatar
thefro526 thefro526 is offline
Mentor for Hire.
AKA: Dustin Benedict
no team (EWCP, MAR, FRC 708)
Team Role: Mentor
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Rookie Year: 2005
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 2,599
thefro526 has a reputation beyond reputethefro526 has a reputation beyond reputethefro526 has a reputation beyond reputethefro526 has a reputation beyond reputethefro526 has a reputation beyond reputethefro526 has a reputation beyond reputethefro526 has a reputation beyond reputethefro526 has a reputation beyond reputethefro526 has a reputation beyond reputethefro526 has a reputation beyond reputethefro526 has a reputation beyond repute
Send a message via AIM to thefro526 Send a message via MSN to thefro526
Re: Pics And Vids! 816 1-31-09!!!!!!!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sean Raia View Post
im curios, how many days a week does your team meet and for how long?
Because you seem to be done with your robot with 2 weeks to spare and thats pretty amazing.
Anyway,
Looks like a good design and now you have 2 weeks to test it so congratz.

EDIT: looks tall! how tall is it aprox? And those balls are not getting much distance. You better have an effective traction control system so you can drive right up to the trailers and wait for the balls to get slowly dropped in. unless you have a different strategy.
Thanks!! We meet Monday-Thursday from 3-7/8, Friday from 3-5:30 and Saturday from 9-3. That being said we spent the first week building the field and designing the robot and it took about 3 weeks of solid build to get it to this point. Sometimes a little extra design and fore-thought goes a long way.

As far as the height: last time I measured it was 54" tall give or take a bit. Our range is off in that video because our top roller wasn't spinning right but the range isn't far it's about 1 foot at most. As far as traction control we don't have any in programming... It's all in my left and right hands.
__________________
-Dustin Benedict
2005-2012 - Student & Mentor FRC 816
2012-2014 - Technical Mentor, 2014 Drive Coach FRC 341
Current - Mentor FRC 2729, FRC 708

Last edited by thefro526 : 31-01-2009 at 16:57.