pic: 1889 robot design

[Gary Dillard]

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[Alex Cormier]

I wouls have to say i am impressed. Looks good and im sure it will work well also.

[Cjmovie]

It looks nice, but it also looks like someone is going to be sitting up making some holes for quite a while, if you lack a plasma cutter :-).

Seriously, it looks nice and light, while maintaining strength. I like it.

[Dan Petrovic]

Wow. It looks really good!

I'm a bit confused by the looks of that manipulator. How does it work?

[MattLi]

Originally Posted by Cjmovie

It looks nice, but it also looks like someone is going to be sitting up making some holes for quite a while, if you lack a plasma cutter :-).

Seriously, it looks nice and light, while maintaining strength. I like it.

I'm 5 ft 7 in tall and I weigh only 105 pounds. Last year our team was discussion shoving me in the shipping crate, giving me a 5 week supply of carrots and having me drill holes in our AIM HIGH bot.

[Arefin Bari]

Looks like some 2005 robots will be back in action...

[Jonathan Norris]

Wow.. this is about as early as I have seen a full CAD drawing up here. I wonder if we will see more teams posting theirs now that the ice has been broken . That looks like a solid design there, don't know how well it will drive with a big ramp hanging off the side...

[65_Xero_Huskie]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Norris

Wow.. this is about as early as I have seen a full CAD drawing up here. I wonder if we will see more teams posting theirs now that the ice has been broken .

NOT US!!
hehe. I like the frame, it looks solid, i might just have to steal that and put it over my bed so at night i can see good worksmanship =)

[Dan Richardson]

That bot looks solid, just as I had expected from the new tytus+dillard+1889 team.

That arm looks really long does that front piece roll down, or stay in its original position? Just make sure it doesn't go outside that 72" zone or otherwise it'd be bad news.

It'll be fun to see you guys at Florida.

[MarsBOtkid]

looks great can't wait to see it in action.... BUT, from how it looks, you may be outside the 72" x 72" zone. Be carefull about that!!!1

[Gary Dillard]

Originally Posted by Stud Man Dan

That bot looks solid, just as I had expected from the new tytus+dillard+1889 team.

That arm looks really long does that front piece roll down, or stay in its original position? Just make sure it doesn't go outside that 72" zone or otherwise it'd be bad news.

It'll be fun to see you guys at Florida.

Thanks Dan.

The arm deploys at the elbow, once (spring loaded) such that the upper and lower arm sections are co-planar (co-linear in side view). That joint is just to stay within the 48 inch high envelope. The kinematics of the remaining joints use idler sprockets to ground such that the end effector always points in the same direction (into the robot as shown, away from the robot when rotated into position at the front (left in this picture). The gripper fingers (outboard red pieces) are actuated.

We prototyped the arm today; the gripper works better than I had hoped. The remaining kinematics were a little rough because of some prototyping shortcuts we took, but I've used this mechanism before and that's not a concern.

As for the 72 x 72 envelope, it fits in diagonally with Angstroms to spare, thanks to the narrow aft face of the frame which gives us an additional 5 inches of effective length. Besides, I'm sure Woody would let us use it even if it violated the rules; after all, we've put alot of engineering time into it.

Wow. I really like your guy's Octagonal frame. Does anyone have Inventor drawings of one of those? I've been interested in getting a closer look to see how our team might go about building something after that style.

Looks like a great bot!

[Scott Morgan]

Originally Posted by MattLi

I'm 5 ft 7 in tall and I weigh only 105 pounds. Last year our team was discussion shoving me in the shipping crate, giving me a 5 week supply of carrots and having me drill holes in our AIM HIGH bot.

last year our team discussed using freshmen as our robot, as some of them fit in the size requirements

[Guy Davidson]

Looks pretty sweet. Hopefuly it runs as well as it looks.

-Guy

[Brandon Holley]

whys everyone posting designs 6 days into build ?!