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Re: Rookie Team 3729's minibot
That's a great idea, then you won't worry about having to slow down your minibot as the motors backdrive.
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Re: Rookie Team 3729's minibot
Holy crap. No wheels but how?
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The video was our first pole test. We've since slowed down the decent by back driving. Even without back driving the minibot is light enough that it's decent is slow enough that it wouldn't tear up anything even without pool noodles to land on.
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HOW DOES IT GET UP??????????
Unless you provide a valid reason, I label this video as fixed, edited, and a lie. Give a good reason, or this will be disregarded as a photoshopped video. |
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Re: Rookie Team 3729's minibot
Each motor armature has a two inch long 3/8 diameter extension. The extensions are covered in latex tubing and drive directly on the pole. The minbot frame is 8 inch by 3 1/2 inch 1/16 thick Lexan. There are two pieces of 6 inch long 1/2 inch aluminum tubing attached to the frame that guide the minibot off the deployment tray. The only other components are two lamp switches and the Tetrix battery.
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That's exactly what our minibot looks like and how it works.
If you are a good team, you will copy this robot. |
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We tried direct driving off the motor a 3/16 shaft with sergical tubing over it and it smoked the motor. I would like to see a close up.
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The other parameter is the right amount of normal force on the pole- for a 2 lb robot, you want about 4 lbs of normal force to hold the surgical tubing of the wheels to the pole. Too much and the motors are loaded down by friction. Vamfun did nice simulations... http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...6&postcount=16 Last edited by boomergeek : 12-03-2011 at 07:08. |
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This is not new news guys. Many teams have competed in Week 1 with the same thing. It's good that a rookie caught on though. It's upsetting because by champs most teams will have the same minibot. More importantly, how much does it weigh?
Also, good luck finding a good deployment. It seems like only 4 out of 40 teams with the same mini have been able to deploy it. Last edited by rcmolloy : 12-03-2011 at 09:03. |
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Robert is right, not new news. Even though 3729 is a rookie team, it doesn't lack horsepower. It's main mentor (me) has five years FIRST experience and has mentored teams to a regional win and two trips to Atlanta. The other mentors are engineers in aerospace. The students are very sharp and were very trainable to the ways of FIRST. They learned so fast that they helped two other FIRST teams with design. One other thing, it doesn't hurt to have a full fledged CNC machine shop as a major sponsor.
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Re: Rookie Team 3729's minibot
Our team as prototyped a similar design, but can't seem to get the minibot to raise off the ground.
We used surgical tubing to cover 1/2 OD rods, but when it is turned on, all that happens are spinning shafts going nowhere... |
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Is their any possible why to attach the minibot with 2 motors with surgerical tubing? and make it light as possible.... My team is having troubles finding a way to attach the minibot so I was wondering if you guys can help.
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