FIRST Team 57, The Leopards, 2012 Robot

[Kevin Sevcik]

I know, we so rarely post pics and vids. So you'll forgive me that the videos below are completely unedited. And my kids can only take blurry pictures, apparently.

Mechanicals:
Weight: ~119 lbs (depends on signage)
Drive Train: 4 CIMs, 6 AM pneumatics, ~12 fps.
Shooter: 2 FP 0673's through a CIM-sim, direct driving 2 6" performance wheels /w inside-out urethane V-belts for grip
Conveyor: 2 BB 550's through 64:1 P60's driving a mess of polycord belts
Pickup: 1 BB 550 though a 20:1 P60 direct driving a conveyor brush
Bridge manipulator: 1 AM PG71 driving a ridiculous looking wedge/robot platform. We'll likely be swapping this for a BB 775 through a 256:1 P60 at Bayou.
Other: All the flat space is a platform for a robot to sit on to (hopefully) make a 3-bot balance possible.

Electricals:
10 Black Jags on CAN, drive encoders, shooter encoder, camera for auto-aiming, gyro, ultrasonic for ranging, some photoelectric proximity sensors for ball counting, and probably some things I've forgotten in the week since Stop Build.

There's still some tweaking to be done on programming and that wedge motor to be swapped out, but it's functional and without any major mechanical issues. And we actually came in underweight as designed and first built, which is always nice. We'll see you at Bayou and Lone Star.

Calibrating ranges on our shooter: http://youtu.be/jWk8ULt-qbU
Driver practice and debugging the pesky ball counters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sN5NGbMJZg

Pictures are from a few days before ship when we were painting the camera mount. It's going underneath the shooter.
FIRST Team 57's 2012 Robot - Front View FIRST Team 57's 2012 Robot - Back View