Weekly CAD, Mech, & Programming Challenges By DiscoBots 2587

[emekablue]

This is a really cool idea! We'll be sure to follow.

[Andrew Remmers]

OOOO RENDER!!!! I shall Do this! Next week at my work computer.

- Andrew

[timytamy]

Nice,

Just wanted to say thanks for doing this. I've sent this to everyone on my team, and I'm turning it into a friendly competition. So far one person (from Media of all places) has started sending me answers.

Since we didn't have access to your SVN I gave them this to do:

2012-06-10: Time to work out the date
You may have noticed that I have like to use 24 hour time. You may have also noticed the dates are in a weird format. Your task is to reply to me as to why I use these weird formats AND why would I use this for version control?
Bonus: Tell me why I started from 0 in the rules.

Can't wait to see what you set in the coming weeks.

[n1ckd2012]

Originally Posted by timytamy

Nice,
Since we didn't have access to your SVN...

Future tasks will accessible by the public.

Glad you like the program!

[Grim Tuesday]

This is a very cool idea, I would love to get some of my team to participate!

[daniel_dsouza]

render complete. took me about 2 hrs with 2 (slow) 1.5Ghz cores using Photoview 360 and Solidworks 2011

Your mechanical challenge is interesting.

[O'Sancheski]

Don't know how many renders we are allowed to post but I came up with three pretty good ones.

[n1ckd2012]

Originally Posted by O'Sancheski

Don't know how many renders we are allowed to post but I came up with three pretty good ones.

Sweet renders. More the merrier.

[avanboekel]

Tried to pull up the .stp file, and it crashed Inventor All of these renders look great!

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by O'Sancheski

Don't know how many renders we are allowed to post but I came up with three pretty good ones.

These are sweet! Fix the bumper fabric though as well as putting the robot on the ground. You'll get much nicer shadows. That third one is my favorite.

[stundt1]

I didn't want to have my integerated graphics render all day so I rendered it on a low setting.

Joe did you color some of the parts or something because in solid works it didn't come all black for me?

Robots look much better without bumpers.....

[O'Sancheski]

Originally Posted by stundt1

Joe did you color some of the parts or something because in solid works it didn't come all black for me?

Yes I did color some of the parts to get the closest thing to the actual robot.

Akash, I'll edit the bumper texture and post a new pic.

EDIT: Added new render. Don't really know if I got the fabric right.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by O'Sancheski

EDIT: Added new render. Don't really know if I got the fabric right.

Nice! Is that the finest you could go with the material? Play around with the blurr of the shadow as well, it will give it a more realistic look.

The camera orientation and lighting from your previous post looked much nicer than this one. The second and third from the last post.

[O'Sancheski]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

Nice! Is that the finest you could go with the material? Play around with the blurr of the shadow as well, it will give it a more realistic look.

The camera orientation and lighting from your previous post looked much nicer than this one. The second and third from the last post.

The orientation on the X and Y axis keep getting offset so that's why I think the lighting is a little strange. I'll go back and set the axis' back to the way I want the and shoot another one.

[Adam.garcia]

These weekly Challenges are a very great way to keep students interactive throughout the summer.

I'm definitely going to pass these challenges on to our team.

Thanks