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Re: 2002 Zone Zeal
After reading through this thread, I got curious, and earlier tonight I pulled 176's 2002 robot off the closet shelf and started rebuilding her.
Man, oh man, is that robot a brute. Here are just a few specs from the bot thus far. The whole frame is all welded 3/8" or 1/2" thick aluminum angle It's a 4wd configuration with dually style pneumatic tires (8 wheels total) It has 2 speed transmissions, 1 CIM per trans, 5fps low gear, 25fps high gear (hearsay from a mentor from 2002) It has a 360* turret mounted to the top, powered by a drill motor It has 2 opposing arms with pneumatic claws, driven out by lead screws on drill motors to grab goals It has an IR tower on top, for autonomous driving So far, a mentor and I have gotten the top turret taken off, and rewired the drive base and pneumatics and tested it on a work bench with an old control station. Everything seems to work well. The next step is to rewire the turret, remount it, and then put the IR tower back on top, and test the code. If there's anything I've learned from looking at our old robots, it's that they were definitely built under a lot less constraints, and they were built tough. I don't know if it's true for many other teams as old as 176, but the late 90s and early 2000s were when we built our most mechanically complex robots, because that's when we also had the most mentor/engineer/sponsor support. The welding, CNC work, and complexity of parts we used back then puts our past few recent robots to shame. |
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