pic: Team 1114 - Simbot SS

[Karthik]

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[AdamHeard]

It was amazing at Midwest. So, I gotta ask....

What powers the launcher?

What powers drive? What speed? Is the robot underweight?

Also, can you explain the teaser?

[dtengineering]

Those who haven't seen the video of this thing should check it out on the blue alliance.

1114 has done it again. Look out Einstein, here they come.

Jason

[Guy Davidson]

As I commented in another thread, the best way I could ever see to describe your amazingly simple robot came to my from the quote bar:

"... simple things can amaze me." - Andy Baker

Since I'm a programmer, I'd love to add to Adam's questions (please? ):

How much feedback to you have to control the drive train? The arm/grabebr mechanism?

How do you control the Hybrid mode? What commands does the Robo-coach (if used, but I assume you do) give?

Thanks, and congratulations on building an incredible robot. I hope I / we can go to Atlanta this year, if just to stare at your (and others, of coutse) robot(s).

[=Martin=Taylor=]

hmmm... It resembles 217 in no way watsoever.... I guess the rumors were rumors...

All the same. That things amazing.

[Martijn]

wow.. so simple, yet so effective. just watched the finals on the blue alliance, and all i can say is wow..

[Eugene Fang]

can anyone enlighten me on how their shooter works? all i can tell from the pics is that its very thin and pokey.

I watched some videos, and the pokey thing goes out very fast, and then retracts quite slowly. im assuming thats a characteristic exhibited by some sort of windup/retraction system with some sort of tensioning/launching system (if it were pure pneumatics, for example, it should have retracted just as fast)

[Arefin Bari]

Me: Karthik, can I see the robot?
Karthik: NO.

Like others have asked, please elaborate on your shooting mechanism. If you can share close pictures of your mechanism, it would be much appreciated.

[waialua359]

The names says it all. Simbot-"simple"
Its an understatement to say that any team probably could have built this thing/similar design had they seen this from day 1 of build season.
Their design and game approach is something worth studying. Write a book! It will make you folks rich......

[Eugene Fang]

No Delete Option.

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by waialua359

Their design and game approach is something worth studying. Write a book! It will make you folks rich......

Not quite a full book, but you can read about them in http://www.amazon.com/FIRST-Robots-B...33924&sr= 8-2 and http://www.amazon.com/FIRST-Robots-H...990521-5305468

[waialua359]

Joe,
Thanks for the amazon link. I just preordered a couple of books and its Much cheaper.

-Glenn

[AndyB]

The shooter is wound up using surgical tubing. When the arm is pulled back, the surgical tubing is tensioned. If I remember right, I think they used a dog gear as a firing mechanism... but that may be someone else.

Worked very effectively though and their drivers were about as good as it gets).

[Kate00]

Originally Posted by waialua359

The names says it all. Simbot-"simple"
Its an understatement to say that any team probably could have built this thing/similar design had they seen this from day 1 of build season.
Their design and game approach is something worth studying. Write a book! It will make you folks rich......

Actually, they have – as a series of seminars. Specifically, this is their presentation on design and game approach. And it’s even free! Some of the presentations were given at a series of seminars last year in Toronto, and they have been presented at the Championship in the past. Hopefully they will return this year. I saw them in Toronto last year - they were very well done, and incredibly useful. The success of these seminars is not only shown in their team, but the teams they've mentored or are mentored by their alumni, such as 1503, 1680, 2056 and 2166, as well as many more Canadian teams who were at the series of seminars in Toronto and those who have seen them at the championships.

[Michael DiRamio]

Originally Posted by sumadin

How much feedback to you have to control the drive train? The arm/grabebr mechanism?

How do you control the Hybrid mode? What commands does the Robo-coach (if used, but I assume you do) give?

We have two encoders (one on each side, 64 ticks per revolution) and a gyro for feedback on the drive system and there is a 10-turn pot mounted on the arm. The information from the base is fed into a positional system we use to keep track of our location on the field and react appropriately.

The hybrid modes focus mainly on informing the robot what "lane" to be in on the straight-aways (for now!).