"Ozark Mountain Brawl" - the legend returns

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Originally Posted by BBray_T1296

We absolutely will have a second robot. It will be derpy, it will be pneumaticisized, it will be the bridge bot of epic destruction. And it will arrive dissassembled in several crates. If anyone wants to help us with our soon to be ziptied bot, We could certainly use all the help we can, and access to some intense power tools.

So here is the plan - we still have the frame and the wheel assemblies intact. I think getting those installed is doable. We have the electronics parts but the students were very thorough taking apart the wiring harness - but it should be possible to wire the wheels up again. That would give us a mecanum-drive base to play with.

Our gatherer was a 4-side intake and vertical section that might take too long to reassemble - we can decide at the Brawl. The shooter is a simple 2-wheeled (on the same axle) hood on a turntable. The only thing still assembled are the shooter wheels. So the shooter is quite a job also and useless w/o the vertical part of the gatherer. And I could not find a 2nd camera last night!

The ramp-lowering device is intact and pretty easy to get attached and working.

The original bot never had pneumatics - what Brian refers to is an idea to add a stinger. It is possible but a bit of a long shot (to get done on Friday) and not possible (no weight limit left) if we decide to try and make the gatherer/shooter work.

The big thing we are missing are bumpers! We never made a second set of bumpers. I think we have 2 radios and 2 driver stations.

Conclusion: With some help we can have a nice mecanum-drive base with a ramp-lowering device put together on Friday. Its a fun little beast to drive! Plus (believe it or not) the base can get over the center barrier if necessary. Getting the gatherer and shooter to work again might be a tall order. We'll really need help with bumpers - I'm not sure if the old bumpers we have lying around are gonna work.