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).

[Mpengelly]

Our prototype is 1.3 second climb so far with maybe .5-1 second deploy. Still in the works, hoping to get it 1 sec or under

[davidthefat]

Vids or it didn't happen.

[Mpengelly]

I would but the current vids show more than we care to reveal. If we can gets tests shot from a distance then we might post them

Edit: Our programmer will post a video sometime tonight

[jcoinster]

Originally Posted by davidthefat

Vids or it didn't happen.

I agree, anyone could fladoodle their times. You can always blur the minibot... If you're that worried.

[thefro526]

Our Prototype was averaging 1.6 seconds with a fastest time of 1.4 seconds.

The current revision looks like it's coming in right around 1.4 seconds on average.

[jcoinster]

Originally Posted by thefro526

Our Prototype was averaging 1.6 seconds with a fastest time of 1.4 seconds.

The current revision looks like it's coming in right around 1.4 seconds on average.

With or without deployment?

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by jcoinster

With or without deployment?

Without deployment.

With deployment, average ascent time should be about 1.6 or 1.7 seconds.

[jcoinster]

Originally Posted by thefro526

Without deployment.

With deployment, average ascent time should be about 1.6 or 1.7 seconds.

Pictures? Videos? That sounds awesome

[jacob9706]

Our prototype bot is pretty fast compared to what ive seen and we are shaving 3lbs off if it as of tomorrow. New watter jet cuts. Just needing assembly! Our deployment is less than a second and consistant. Ill post new vids soon but demos are up of our first prototype is on www.youtube.com/user/jacob9706 all videos there are with half speed and battery including the deployment.

[jcoinster]

Originally Posted by jacob9706

Our prototype bot is pretty fast compared to what ive seen and we are shaving 3lbs off if it as of tomorrow. New watter jet cuts. Just needing assembly! Our deployment is less than a second and consistant. Ill post new vids soon but demos are up of our first prototype is on www.youtube.com/user/jacob9706 all videos there are with half speed and battery including the deployment.

Very nice deployment, I don't think the minibot can be blamed for its slowness based on it's battery though. We never charged our battery once the whole season until the competition and the speed remained constant.

[pfreivald]

Originally Posted by jcoinster

Very nice deployment, I don't think the minibot can be blamed for its slowness based on it's battery though. We never charged our battery once the whole season until the competition and the speed remained constant.

We cut almost a second off of our time by making sure the battery was tip-top. YMMV.

[JohnFogarty]

I can see about a .5 deployment speed on ours. and then about a 2.25 second climb. The best part. The mini-bot pulls itself onto the poll.

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by jcoinster

Pictures? Videos? That sounds awesome

I'll post up a video after week one, we're not exactly ready to give our secrets away yet.

(Our Deployment system is also being re-manufactured)