pic: Team 340

[Matt Leese]

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[pakrat]

I'm guessing it works kinda like HOT's '05 robot. starts leaning on the wall, then falls down for a longer, lower CG. But what happens when oyu have alliance partners that want the sides, do you lean properly on the center goal? Or maybe it doesn't lean...

[Kyle Love]

Originally Posted by pakrat

I'm guessing it works kinda like HOT's '05 robot. starts leaning on the wall, then falls down for a longer, lower CG. But what happens when oyu have alliance partners that want the sides, do you lean properly on the center goal? Or maybe it doesn't lean...

That's exactly what I was thinking!

[Matt Leese]

It sits on the floor fine. It doesn't actually lean on the wall nor does it touch the wall on the way down.

Matt

[OneAngryDaisy]

very nice looking, do you guys have lexan over the long (you could call it the hypotenuse) side of the bot? It's hard to see, I'm guessing you don't so you can scoop tetras up, but it sure looks like it would be easy for robots to get stuck inside that part of your body..


and how about that machining on the telescoping arm! can anyone say pretty?

[Koko Ed]

Too bad we didn't get to see it work at the exhibition but it was definately an intriguing design. I can't wait to see it in action on the 3rd of March.

[Yan Wang]

I've been waiting to see this robot for a very long time. One of our alumnus at RIT (Greg) kept telling me you guys had a great robot... and an even more impressive autonomous mode. I'm dying to find out what it does

Great job on that huge base. Our team considered doing what HOT did too during the design week but you guys have really pulled it off, along with a very delicately machined arm. Can't wait to see this thing in real life next week!

[rachakate]

The lower arm and the extended section of the upper arm are aluminum tube. We looked at C channel and switched to tube for strength.

Original design had belts and pulleys. I made the mistake of not checking tensile strength of the belt we ordered. So Friday night was a little tough, completely switching from belt to chain, not knowing if we had weight.

Things are looking good now. And other than 2, 1 hr naps I've been up since 7am yesterday. coming up on 40 hrs. Time to turn in.

Thanks for the positive feedback!

[rachakate]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Too bad we didn't get to see it work at the exhibition but it was definately an intriguing design. I can't wait to see it in action on the 3rd of March.

The radio issues at the exhibition were disappointing. But you won't have to wait too long!

[Alex Cormier]

thats spiffy! see ya in a bit!

[AJunx]

I'm a huge fan of the "template tetra" that you use to store the tetras on the front of your bot. Great innovative thinking.

Congratulations on building such a nice looking and well designed robot.

-Andrew

[Kelvin Ng]

that thing actually fits in the length limit? crazy

[abeD]

As someone said before I think its a falling robot...This means that it starts standing up at the beginning of the match (most likely that arm is folded in the front) then it falls down to start the match...


Great job guys I love the concept (is that tetra in the front there just a normal tetra or do u use it to stack other tetras?)

[jgannon]

That looks awfully familiar. Two pivots, a telescope, passive claw, tetra stand on the front, and side shields. Glad to see that someone else is thinking outside of the A-shaped box.

[pakrat]

I think they learned some stuff from being around HOT so much. Decided to go light strips with supports instead of the classic solid aluminum tubing...