pic: The Bobcat 2011

[Peter Matteson]

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[Hawiian Cadder]

I am curious how your lift works, it almost looks like a lift / telescoping hybrid. can you post a CAD file?

[Peter Matteson]

I'll check with the students at our next meeting to see if they still hve the CAD files.

The lift design is based on our classic telescoping arm slider design we've used since 97.

[Chris is me]

Is the vertical lift a single stage or two? It looks a lot like a single stage, but I never got around to checking.

Fantastic robot this year. If we had the resources, I wouldn't be surprised if we used the same concept this year.

[Peter Matteson]

It's single stage. We didn't want to mess with multi stage complications.

This is part of how we came up with the idea to have the claw extend pneumatically so we had the extra reach we needed, and it kept the arm short to make it easier for the drivers to adjust while hanging and minimize arm sway.

[Nick Lawrence]

Beautiful, solid robot. One of my favorites, I'm sorry I didn't have a chance to have a close look at champs. Looking forward to what you come up with next year.

-Nick

[Joe Ross]

This robot is too good to get to Einstein.

[sgreco]

Even considering all of 177's success in the past few years, I'd still go as far as to say that this is the best robot they have built...

[Peter Matteson]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

This robot is too good to get to Einstein.

Haha. I'm glad we finally had a chance to play some matches together this year.

Originally Posted by sgreco

Even considering all of 177's success in the past few years, I'd still go as far as to say that this is the best robot they have built...

This is by far my favorite of the 9 I've worked on, even though we've had other robots that brought home more wins.

[AcesJames]

It was fun to watch the subtle changes that took place on this robot from Shakedown to WPI to CT to St. Louis. 177 is definitely a team that never stops working, as far as I can tell.

Working with you guys at Shakedown as a driver was one of my favorite moments of this season. I can distinctly remember the crash we all felt on the opposite side of the driver station when the 177 machine rammed into the rack during auton.

Funny to think 177 went from having an elevator that didn't go up and down and no minibot at all at Shakedown, to one of the fastest tube scoring and minibot launching teams in the world at St Louis.

[Madison]

Are you able to join the flat urethane belting without using whatever special kit McMaster recommends? When we use round urethane belting, we just heat it over a heat gun and mash the malleable ends together, then grind the flashing off. This is very easy and doesn't require anything particularly expensive.

I'd like to play around with the flat belts some, though, if they're similarly easy to work with.

Did you just let the belts wander back and forth on the drums? Any problems with them riding up on one another?

[V_Chip]

Originally Posted by AcesJames

It was fun to watch the subtle changes that took place on this robot from Shakedown to WPI to CT to St. Louis. 177 is definitely a team that never stops working, as far as I can tell.

Working with you guys at Shakedown as a driver was one of my favorite moments of this season. I can distinctly remember the crash we all felt on the opposite side of the driver station when the 177 machine rammed into the rack during auton.

Funny to think 177 went from having an elevator that didn't go up and down and no minibot at all at Shakedown, to one of the fastest tube scoring and minibot launching teams in the world at St Louis.

This robot can also do pullups.

(CT Regional Reference)