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Re: pic: 177's articulation test

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
I LOVED this drivetrain... until the eliminations when the frame exploded.

In all seriousness, awesome drive system, I really did love it. I liked how the pneumatics when fully retracted raised the front wheels a little bit; that's a really cool idea. Seemed to serve you guys pretty well this year!
The pnuematics raised the front and rear wheels effectively making the robot a 4WD when we weren't climbing or pushing.

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Originally Posted by jblay View Post
Ya ironically it was us that did that, I guess our driving was a little too aggressive.
We actually put bars on the robot at championship to prevent someone from driving into us like that on the bump again.

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Originally Posted by Thermal View Post
I'm curious, anyone got pics of the bot after the frame was apparently "exploded" by #694?
The match video will be better than the pictures we have. Essentially we just broke the welds on the 2 cross members that connect the 2 drive pods. This caused one side of the robot to raise up and broke a pnuematic mount.

The attachment wasn't intended to be put in tension like the way the collision with 694 stressed the welds, basically they hit square inside the drive pod near the middle of the robot. The repair was pretty simple and planned out so we had it done and back together Wednesday night at championship.
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2007 Championship Winners/Newton Division Champions w/190, 987 & 177 The Wall of Maroon
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