Minibot Time Showcase

[jcoinster]

Originally Posted by dodar

We have 2 that will be shown at Florida.

To all people posting, post some pics & vids! Since I spent the whole build season on the minibot, i'm curious to see other teams!

[pfreivald]

Here's our not-quite-refined 'bot at about 3.0 seconds at the RaChaCha Rally:

http://s50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...t=CIMG0653.mp4

We did some more work on it this past Saturday and got it to under 2 seconds (plus about .2 seconds for deployment).

[rees2001]

I can't wait to see how many minibots actually come in at the times people said they would!

[pfreivald]

Originally Posted by rees2001

I can't wait to see how many minibots actually come in at the times people said they would!

Indeed... Some people have been quite... exhuberantly misleading when it comes to minibot times...

(I won't mention any names, but one of these people has the initials "Jason Rees"...)

[Dad1279]

Originally Posted by pfreivald

.....Some people have been quite... exuberantly misleading when it comes to minibot times........

I did not think those times were possible until we hit a breakthrough last night. Now I am sure 1.6-1.7 is possible to do reliably.

[pfreivald]

Originally Posted by Dad1279

I did not think those times were possible until we hit a breakthrough last night. Now I am sure 1.6-1.7 is possible to do reliably.

Oh, I'm sure of it, too. We have about 1.8 seconds reliably. I was just picking on Mr. Rees.

[Justin Montois]

Originally Posted by pfreivald

Indeed... Some people have been quite... exhuberantly misleading when it comes to minibot times...

(I won't mention any names, but one of these people has the initials "Jason Rees"...)

Whoops.

[Guppy]

Well, This is the culmination of six hours of work. Our team didn't take the minibot seriously, so when the minibot team failed to produce in 6 weeks, I took it upon myself to fix it. When calculated, from the base of our deployment to the top, it will take a little over 4 seconds. Sorry about the video, I almost broke the robot. It uses direct drive to two 3" wheels. The wiring has been planned for deployment, but has not been fixed yet.