Announcing the 2013 December Design Competition

[BrendanB]

Here is my final submission. Pretty surprised I "finished" as I've never worked on a full scale robot on my own, just assemblies here and there. If I had more time there was a long list of items I would have changed (mainly the inside of the arm, the claw, and the pivot). I had little to no foreknowledge of telescoping lifts going into this challenge so this would definitely use several more revisions before it hit production level but I'm happy with the results.

echin and I collaborated on the design/strategy portion and then each built separate robots (no shared CAD files). There are a lot of neat differences between the two but I'm excited for when we make one together next month!

Thanks to the organizers and everyone involved on this design challenge! This was a great pre-season activity and hope to see it again next year so we can integrate it with our fall activities for CAD training!