pic: Team 2590's 2013 Robot

[scottandme]

Originally Posted by lynca

Congrats on the 17-1 record and regional win !

Thanks! We rolled a lot of what we learned last year into this robot.

Originally Posted by lynca

1. What coupling mechanism do you have in between your shooter motor and shooter wheel?

The motor couplings are beam couplers from Ruland (http://www.ruland.com/ps_couplings_flexible.asp). We used them on our shooter last year as well (cim-sim's in that case).

Originally Posted by lynca

2. What type of spotlight are you using?

LED Ring lights from superbrightleds.com, same vendor as almost everyone used last year. We're using a 60mm and an 80mm green ring. They're epoxied onto the plastic camera housing. One is plenty, but we like having a bit of redundancy/overkill in that instance. We caught a stray frisbee on Saturday that killed 3 of the LED's. We might try putting a clear plastic shield over the LED's to prevent that in the future. Last year we left it exposed with no issues.

Originally Posted by lynca

3. Did you use the spotlight in your autonomous and in teleoperation?

Yes, we're using it in both modes. We use the data to calculate distance and angle from target. That data feeds into the shooter wheel speed control and a "turn to target" function. The turn to target still needs a little tuning for autonomous.

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by scottandme

LED Ring lights from superbrightleds.com, same vendor as almost everyone used last year. We're using a 60mm and an 80mm green ring. They're epoxied onto the plastic camera housing. One is plenty, but we like having a bit of redundancy/overkill in that instance. We caught a stray frisbee on Saturday that killed 3 of the LED's. We might try putting a clear plastic shield over the LED's to prevent that in the future. Last year we left it exposed with no issues.
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I can attest to the fact that these lights are more than enough to illuminate the targets and then some. For those of you that are unaware, 2590 was nice enough to give us their spare lighting setup after ours (60mm and 80mm standard KOP style ring lights) was destroyed. The lights were noticeably brighter (unbearable at 3' or so, to be honest) and seem much more well made. From what I could tell, one of the ring lights has about the same output as our original setup, which makes us feel much more confident that we'll be able to illuminate the target if we lose a ring of lights... again.

Also, for those of you with any doubts, this machine is the real deal. Dead accurate shooting, effective floor pickup and a smart, well prepared competition team too.

[AdamHeard]

These guys are good. I love the robot.

[camtunkpa]

Originally Posted by thefro526

Also, for those of you with any doubts, this machine is the real deal. Dead accurate shooting, effective floor pickup and a smart, well prepared competition team too.

+1 We were very impressed with their robot and game play. Can't wait to see how great this machine and team will be by MAR Champs.

[JoshPFalk]

7 disc auton from one of our practice matches at Hatboro-Horsham this past weekend. More match footage to come.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqL6m...aAuA& index=1