Team 1025 - 2012 Robot - Mr. Big Shot

[Aren_Hill]

Originally Posted by ratdude747

1625 had a virtually identical unit on their 2010 bot. it was used to actuate their kicker.

It started on the 2008 bot

[Sean Raia]

What a cool design, although i can foresee problems with shooting that low, i am astounded by how compact that robot looks.

[ratdude747]

Originally Posted by Aren_Hill

It started on the 2008 bot

Never saw the 2008 bot up close... I was a Freshman in HS back then... My first year of FIRST... knowing the basic concept of that bot, I am not surprised...

[DampRobot]

Wow, cool! At first glance, it appears to be a "basic" design, but I really like it for its simplicity an effectiveness. I especially like how the collector doubles as the storage device. The only drawback I see to this design is that it may be hard to aim the robot with just the drive train. Just looking at the video though, it looks like that may not be an issue.

[Pun-isher]

Call me a boring person, but the creative idea may have dragged down the potential for an even better robot. Creative solutions are a plus and are quite effective at attracting attention, but with that reload time and the threat of being shut down by effective defense, I am a little reluctant on this bot.

[shewejff]

Thanks for the comments. We really tried to go with a "simple yet effective" robot this year so that we could finish up early to be able to practice and work out many of the bugs before our first competition (this has been a problem for us the last couple years).

We can't take credit for the shooter pull-back mechanism. I've seen it on a few different robots. I think that we did a good job implementing it and getting it to fit in a pretty tight space under the shooter.

As for people defending us while we're shooting, we were worried about that too and tested it out. We tried to determine how close a robot would have to be to be able to defend us. Deceivingly, they would actually have to be pretty close for the ball to be able to hit them (about 2 feet away for a full 5 foot tall robot). If they are going to be that close to us while we're in the key, they risk us just driving forward (with our rear end still in the key) and touching them. We're also just thinking of pulling the surgical tubing a little tighter and shooting from further back in the key so that it's not even a possibility.

[Jared Russell]

Ah, the "1625 linkage". It powered 1625 to a regional win in 2008, an Einstein appearance in 2010, and 341 to two regional wins in 2010 (and I'm sure that's an incomplete list).

Needless to say, I'm a fan of the design

[Brandon Holley]

Very creative design! I dig it.

-Brando