pic: Team 341 presents Miss Daisy XI

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by Yankeefan181

I just wanted to say, this robot should be an inspiration to teams everywhere. It was not built by professional engineers, and it wasn't machined to pieces. However, it was still one of (if not the) best robots in the country. Congratulations Miss Daisy, you are truly a role model team and very well-deserving of your Hall of Fame title.

There was definitely some precision work that went into this robot (the shooter side plates and guide rails were laser cut Delrin, as were the bearing retainers in the drive and a few motor mounting plates throughout the machine. The belly pan was waterjet by a sponsor). Our engineers (all four of us!) worked side by side with our students on every aspect of design and construction of the robot.

But for the most part, our robot is one that 90%+ of FRC teams could have built (though our heavy reliance on COTS parts such as gearboxes and wheels generally pushes our bot towards the upper end of the allowable total cost). Except for the parts I noted above, all of our machining and construction was conducted in our build space, which is pretty low tech (a small low cost mill and 3-in-1 lathe plus wood shop tools).

Our design approach this year was simple: Build the simplest possible machine that could execute our desired game strategy (3+ ball hybrid, effective key shooting in teleop, and triple balancing), add in some killer software, and never stop improving/iterating.