The Inaugural Year: Team 4817 Presents Orchid One

[ENIAC]

A question: if we were to develop something for our withholding allowance, which would be more valuable: a floor pickup or a 10-point hang? I can see us completing one or the other, but not both, unless we integrated them.

[EricLeifermann]

Originally Posted by ENIAC

A question: if we were to develop something for our withholding allowance, which would be more valuable: a floor pickup or a 10-point hang? I can see us completing one or the other, but not both, unless we integrated them.

I would say the 10 point hang.

[MysterE]

I'd agree - a ten point hang would be good.

With your height you may also be able to play some decent defense against far scoring teams. Good job!

[ENIAC]

Originally Posted by MysterE

I'd agree - a ten point hang would be good.

With your height you may also be able to play some decent defense against far scoring teams. Good job!

Yeah. We will be packing a few sheets of lexan into our crate when we ship. We will both shield our robot, replace our acrylic sheet chutes, and put in some frisbee deflectors.

As for the hang, we still have The jag left, along with the PG 71. I guess we'll see what we can whip up. The kit of parts is meager when FIRST Choice is less of an option. We managed to get a few parts ferried to us through some coworkers of parents, but not much. The KOP only came with 2 victors, one jag, and 2 spikes. We didn't have enough motor controllers so our window motors are driven by spikes. It has been a trying season.

[midway78224]

Originally Posted by ENIAC

Yeah. We will be packing a few sheets of lexan into our crate when we ship. We will both shield our robot, replace our acrylic sheet chutes, and put in some frisbee deflectors.

As for the hang, we still have The jag left, along with the PG 71. I guess we'll see what we can whip up. The kit of parts is meager when FIRST Choice is less of an option. We managed to get a few parts ferried to us through some coworkers of parents, but not much. The KOP only came with 2 victors, one jag, and 2 spikes. We didn't have enough motor controllers so our window motors are driven by spikes. It has been a trying season.

I know it may be a little to late but did you use your IFI PDV to get more jags or victors. You can get up to 2 extra Victors or Jags. if you need details you can pm me.

[ENIAC]

Originally Posted by midway78224

I know it may be a little to late but did you use your IFI PDV to get more jags or victors. You can get up to 2 extra Victors or Jags. if you need details you can pm me.

We did, but we didn't have enough money to ship direct, so we mailed them to a team in the states. However, they did not get them in time to get them to a person coming over for work, and so we do not have them. We are working on getting them soonish.

[Vince lau]

looks good, don't forget your team number on the bumpers. I'll be inspecting and refereeing at GTR W

[Matt704]

I would do a 10 point ramp hang. That is what we are adding.

[ENIAC]

Originally Posted by Vince lau

looks good, don't forget your team number on the bumpers. I'll be inspecting and refereeing at GTR W

Yeah, we'll be painting them on there.

[BJC]

Another thing you could easily do is cover one or both of the sides of your robot with disk deflecting body panels. Right now, if you were to block a fast shot it looks like it could potentially mess up your robot. My team uses polycarbonate as body panels but mostly anything will do. As a bonus it provides a place where you can put your team name, school, or sponsors for all to see.

Good Luck this season!
Regards, Bryan

[ENIAC]

Originally Posted by BJC

Another thing you could easily do is cover one or both of the sides of your robot with disk deflecting body panels. Right now, if you were to block a fast shot it looks like it could potentially mess up your robot. My team uses polycarbonate as body panels but mostly anything will do. As a bonus it provides a place where you can put your team name, school, or sponsors for all to see.

Good Luck this season!
Regards, Bryan

Yeah, we'll be doing that. Lexan is favorite because it shatters less

[ENIAC]

Also, I am thinking of adding a 84" deflector to our lift mechanism. We could extend it when necessary to block shots.

[iyermihir]

You should look into one of these for a quick 10 point hang.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...=10+point+hang

-Mihir Iyer

[ENIAC]

Originally Posted by iyermihir

You should look into one of these for a quick 10 point hang.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...=10+point+hang

-Mihir Iyer

That's a very good idea. I think I will be trying to source some good plywood in the next few days.

[Mk.32]

Wow I can't imagine what it would be like to work without being able to order any parts I want and have them shipped to me for almost nothing within the end of the work.......... Big props to you guys!

Firstly definitely build the hanger, the passive hang is pretty easy to do and 10pts will make a different.

As a future suggestion, maybe you guys can source some local motor controllers, to test with and then when you fly in for comp switch them out for FRC legal ones when you get to your comp. But I guess you can load up on goodies for next year when you are state side for regional.

Just wondering how hard is it to get materials in Singapore? I have spent a good chuck of time in China and was able to get almost anything I wanted from the street vendors/flea markets in terms of metal/wood/motors/electronics (abit not FRC legal ones).