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[CD47-Bot]

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[Arefin Bari]

that looks awesome... great job... that bot reminds me of our robot from this year... (a tank on wheels)...

[Pin Man]

Nice looking robot there... Does it have any power? If it does what kind?

[TD78]

Looks awesome. I find it really cool how some people use different mediums in which to model their designs, whether it's a prototype that has been drawn in CAD or built with Legos. I have a few Mindstorm kits in my basement that my dad bought a while ago but I've never looked at. With all these models popping up a lot more frequently now (notably Tytus's latest barrage ), I may have to dive into those kits this summer once finals are over.

-TD

[Tytus Gerrish]

barrage, ha ha funny

so are all your pnewmatic valves manupliated by motors or do you stick your hands in there and do it manually?

[aaronbr28040]

You people amaze me with what you do with legos. Somebody needs to force me to be more patient. I work better with something I can saw and cut to make work rather than working with legos. Maybe I'll have to put the many kits that are sitting down in the lab to use sometime for my personal use. Awesome job. How tall is the robot with the arm up?
-Aaron

[greencactus3]

Originally Posted by aaronbr28040

How tall is the robot with the arm up?
-Aaron

now the robot has been dismantled for some time but it was around 25 cm when the arm was down and at full height(arm raised to full) it probably reached to a bit over 50cm...maybe. this picture isnt quite at full height.
well, it was balanced pretty badly with 2rcxs at the rear(you can kinda see one of them in this picture...
and when it was raised to full and i slammed it into full forward, it kinda did a wheelie, ungracefully(it flipped backwards)... so, if you see the 2 "old" motors just sitting there in the front, those are counterweights(no weightlimit for lego prototypes ) the "new" motors you may see just behind would be of the drive train.
so...umm...yeH..kinda drifted off topic there.. well. thats why its not extended fully

[Ryan M.]

Originally Posted by greencactus3

now the robot has been dismantled for some time...

What?!?! Dismantaled!

Do you have a bunch of detailed images of it/deconstruction images? If you do I might be willing to put some (hours) into modeling that in LDraw so that others could build it. 'Course, you'd have to give me permission to. And I might never finish; it's hard to do without a physical model...

[greencactus3]

Originally Posted by Texan

What?!?! Dismantaled!

Do you have a bunch of detailed images of it/deconstruction images? If you do I might be willing to put some (hours) into modeling that in LDraw so that others could build it. 'Course, you'd have to give me permission to. And I might never finish; it's hard to do without a physical model...

um....im sorry..... i really didnt have enough pieces to to work on my next project so..... well.... youll probably see me posting pics of next years robots prototype a few days after kickoff. remind me then and ill take pictures of its dismantallation piece by piece.
well, just for curious people, my next LEGO project after this one was a omnidrive robot... yeah.. the model was very nice but the program became too big...the RCX didnt have enough memory to actually download it in. so... i either need to get more RCXs, or maybe learn how to use the edubot and learn how to program and learn how to connect everything to the edubot.....

[Jeff Rodriguez]

Originally Posted by Tytus Gerrish

so are all your pnewmatic valves manupliated by motors or do you stick your hands in there and do it manually?

Wait, Legos have pneumatics now? Are they legal in FLL? Where have I been?

[greencactus3]

Originally Posted by Ogre

Wait, Legos have pneumatics now? Are they legal in FLL? Where have I been?

LEGO has had pneumatics for quite some time now. they're i think in they're 3rd generation? maybe 4th or 5th generation of them.
pumps, cylinders, tanks, valves, and with a bit of customizing, regulators, flow controls, one way valves, limit switches..... whatelse am i missing...
with LEGO, ANYTHING(in my opinion) is possible to do...

[Ryan Dognaux]

Yes, Lego has evolved quite a bit from just blocks I remember in middle school playing with pneumatic lego cylinders in technology education, not knowing they were legos until some time later.

[MrToast]

You are an animal. That is disgustingly awesome.

MrToast

[MOEmaniac]

GizMOE profile Hey, that looks like my teams robot this year. Except its not all green.

[Joshua May]

That's an awesome lego model. Now all you need is a 2x ball made of legos!