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| View Poll Results: Have you let the magic smoke out? | |||
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8 | 24.24% |
| No |
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18 | 54.55% |
| We've come close |
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3 | 9.09% |
| What's a robot controller? |
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4 | 12.12% |
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Re: Anybody let the magic smoke out?
We were doing speed tests this year, and hit the e-stop button before the robot hit anything. However, this caused the robot to do a front flip, and it landed upsides down after doing a front flip. We bent a couple bins on the RC. However (and thank goodness) we did not destoy it.
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Re: Anybody let the magic smoke out?
Yeah, earlier this year we burned up one of last year's extra 884's on our wooden prototype. Since the muffin fan on top kept spinning (and the log cabin we work in is quite drafty) the cloud of smoke had a wonderful shape to it. When we took off the fan to assess the damage, we found that three of the MOSFETs had huge cracks in them and several of the others were melted and mis-shapen.
It was not a good day for smoke, because a few minutes later the magic smoke escaped from our Dremel as well (but it was running low on noise already, the smoke was released in an attempt to get some noise and force back inside its motor). |
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Re: Anybody let the magic smoke out?
I think we fried the Analog Inputs on a controler for GeroniMOE last year. We hooked up hall-effect transistors (magnet actived transitors) with pull up resistors to sense embedded magnets in drive train sprockets. Our hope was to get a good readout of wheel revolutions but we noticed that those transistors and the gyro stopped working. The rest of the controller still worked so we put it on the practice bot (Sitting Bull) which didnt need a gyro.
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Re: Anybody let the magic smoke out?
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Fortunately we fixed it. |
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