So how many of you actually have a working minibot/deployment?

[Brandtlamonte]

Im just wondering if minibots will be like tower-hangers last year. To where only about 5-10% of the robots competing had them.

[WizenedEE]

Can you make the thread a poll?

Our team has a working minibot, although we're planning on rebuilding its chassis so it won't be working for a while.

EDIT: It appears someone already made a thread quite like this, link is here:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=92107

[nikeairmancurry]

There are many similar topics to this... But I believe about 30% of teams will have working minibots, but only 25% of them will actually be deployed... 20% of them will actually make it to the top.. And only 7% will actually do this every match... There are a zillion variables that are between you and the top of that pole...

[Vermeulen]

We have a working deployer, and out minibot runs. It slips a little going up the pole, so it's climbing in about 4 seconds, but we're working on that between now and regionals.

[Lokhagos]

We've got one most of the way built, we just need to actually put it on the robot.

[jimwick]

we have a working minibot, and have successfully deployed it from the hostbot under program control. it climbs the polo within about 6 seconds. the deployment and climb are definitely under 10 seconds.

our biggest problem is actually lining up on the pole. alignment has to be pretty close, or deployment doesn't happen.

stay tuned

[Nevets Amstier]

Originally Posted by nikeairmancurry

There are many similar topics to this... But I believe about 30% of teams will have working minibots, but only 25% of them will actually be deployed... 20% of them will actually make it to the top.. And only 7% will actually do this every match... There are a zillion variables that are between you and the top of that pole...

60% of the time, they will work....everytime.

[MrForbes]

I"m guessing more like 10% to 20% will have them working. We have one that climbs the pole, and we got the deployment system to stick it on the pole today before leaving. The system needs more work, but I think we'll be among the "have" teams.

[Jim Wilks]

We finally got ours working today.

[MagiChau]

Originally Posted by jgw

We finally got ours working today.

Same here, now time to make it deployed properly.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Brandtlamonte

Im just wondering if minibots will be like tower-hangers last year. To where only about 5-10% of the robots competing had them.

What's the point of having a good minibot if you don't have a reliable deployment system to get them to the pole?

[Bruceb]

We have one.
See it here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvrbb9g9EHM

Hope I did that right.


Bruce

[MagiChau]

Originally Posted by Bruceb

We have one.
See it here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvrbb9g9EHM

Hope I did that right.


Bruce

Looks nice but how are you going to make sure your robot is aligned.

[Bruceb]

You cant see it in the video but we drop an allignment device off the back of the bot that buts up against the pole base.
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[PayneTrain]

We have a bat, that when released by a servo, gets surgical tubing'd into the tower. Then a pin releases, allowing the minibot to get slung down with its platform having more tubing on it. Fast and little accuracy required.
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Providing if it works when we get it on the robot...