Team 931 Minibots!

[Team 288]

Here's a short video of our minibot, Gearmµ (Get it, get it?) in action. This is minibot rev 6.1 for us and we're going to bring at least three (maybe more) of these to world championships with us.

We will be letting other teams use our minibots as well, so if your team is interested just PM me or reply to this post. If you ARE interested in borrowing the minibot, I can give details on how it needs to be mounted as well. (We would like to see your deployment system due to the safety of our minibot)

Here it is: 700ms up a 7 foot pole and with the acceleration that this little guy has, 10 feet is under 1 second

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUSCBbhu4JM

Good luck to all teams out there!!

(if you look really closely at the left of the main action of the video, you can see the chassis of minibot rev 1)

[keehun]

That is really solid.

[Kevin Sevcik]

That's moderately insane and really pushing the theoretical limit of those motors. So that's impressive. I'll go out on a limb and guess that deployment is a pretty major challenge for that minibot, though. I have a feeling that it's not tolerant of too much tweaking or misalignment when it's being deployed.

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

That's moderately insane and really pushing the theoretical limit of those motors. So that's impressive. I'll go out on a limb and guess that deployment is a pretty major challenge for that minibot, though. I have a feeling that it's not tolerant of too much tweaking or misalignment when it's being deployed.

We used a 931 minibot at SMR last week and alignment was not a problem.

[J93Wagner]

'It's amazing' indeed.

[jblay]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

That's moderately insane and really pushing the theoretical limit of those motors. So that's impressive. I'll go out on a limb and guess that deployment is a pretty major challenge for that minibot, though. I have a feeling that it's not tolerant of too much tweaking or misalignment when it's being deployed.

This design is actually one of the easiest in terms of deployment because the magnets allow you to be a little off and if you do it right you do not need any moving parts to release it. The only complex part is putting it out there but thats the problem with every minibot deployment.

[its da PAT!!!]

At SMR we were lucky enough to use one and it fit right on our deployment system. In one our matches we got to race it against them and we barely won. Our deployment was like a 1 second faster. It took them an hour to get it through inspections, but that thing is pretty trick!

I would like to thank Charlie for letting us Borrow one! Gotta get him a shirt =p

[jvriezen]

Originally Posted by its da PAT!!!

At SMR we were lucky enough to use one and it fit right on our deployment system. In one our matches we got to race it against them and we barely won. Our deployment was like a 1 second faster. It took them an hour to get it through inspections, but that thing is pretty trick!

I would like to thank Charlie for letting us Borrow one! Gotta get him a shirt =p

Why was inspection so difficult that it took an hour?

John Vriezen
Team 2530 "Inconcievable"
Mentor, Drive coach, Inspector (primarily Minibots!)

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by jvriezen

Why was inspection so difficult that it took an hour?

John Vriezen
Team 2530 "Inconcievable"
Mentor, Drive coach, Inspector (primarily Minibots!)

What's always the problem with minibot inspection?

"Light switch"

[thefro526]

We have a similar minibot with a similar speed and it's pretty easy to deploy. We have two .25" Nylon Stand offs on our deployment mechanism and two Aluminum tubes on our minibot with a .375" ID so there's a total of .125" of room for the minibot to "find the pole".

[Team 288]

Originally Posted by its da PAT!!!

At SMR we were lucky enough to use one and it fit right on our deployment system. In one our matches we got to race it against them and we barely won. Our deployment was like a 1 second faster. It took them an hour to get it through inspections, but that thing is pretty trick!

I would like to thank Charlie for letting us Borrow one! Gotta get him a shirt =p

Haha thanks! We have actually shaved .2 seconds off of our minibot's total climb time since SMR =)

Are we expecting the digital goats at Worlds on our home turf? That would be awesome!

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by Team 288

Haha thanks! We have actually shaved .2 seconds off of our minibot's total climb time since SMR =)

Are we expecting the digital goats at Worlds on our home turf? That would be awesome!

FIRST says no.

[crazyStone]

Solid design for the minibot and deployment. Shall be interesting to see how deployments vary since the minibot themselves will be (for the most part) evenly matched. I grinned at the mention of "rev 6" we have had similiar redesigns. Currently we are on rev 10.2 so hopefully this shall be the charm.
Good luck and see you in St. Louis

[Jeffy]

Originally Posted by crazyStone

Solid design for the minibot and deployment. Shall be interesting to see how deployments vary since the minibot themselves will be (for the most part) evenly matched. I grinned at the mention of "rev 6" we have had similiar redesigns. Currently we are on rev 10.2 so hopefully this shall be the charm.
Good luck and see you in St. Louis

2410 is on rev 6.18. Try and try again.

[Team 288]

Originally Posted by Jeffy

2410 is on rev 6.18. Try and try again.

Out of curiosity, how do you get the ".18"? The big numbers for us are the major changes while the small numbers are the tiny little tweaks we make. Have you really changed one major revision 18 little times?