Robonauts Everybot program.

[lmedina]

The Robonauts have created a blog that is intended for teams in need of guidance and tips in the 2014 FRC game Aerial Assist. Over the course of the next few weeks, we will be creating a robot, Everybot, and documenting our build process in this blog. Everybot, with a final operating budget of only a thousand dollars, is an affordable, robust, and simple robot that can be built with nothing but basic tools and items that can be found in the kit of parts, purchased from your local hardware store, or any FRC retailer such as Andymark and/or VEXPro.

Good luck from the Robonauts Team #118 in your Aerial Assist venture!


Everybot Program

[AdamHeard]

Awesome idea. Excited to see the results.

[Anupam Goli]

I'm kind of excited to see how this bot ends up! It'll be another great resource for all teams to look at. Some old FIRSTers may be jealous of the amount of resources that are becoming available to teams now than before.

[lmedina]

We have updated the blog with our XML code.

In this XML file, that we used on Everybot, we are able to create controls on the fly without having to hard code those controls in.

For example, when we needed to put on an extra motor and assign it to a joystick control, we do not have to go into the source code. Instead, we go into the XML file and created the control by simply following the established XML syntax.

The XML file allows for the code to be modular and much more efficient.

Hope this Helps.

[AllenGregoryIV]

Luis, this is an awesome program, I wonder who gave you the idea? Just messing with you.

This is turning out even better than I expected when we first talked about it. I would suggest adding more specifications for each of your prototypes like which motors & gearboxes you are using. It helps teams that don't have any idea of where to start to see suggestions.

I hope this robot turns out very well, maybe it can even compete in the fall with a pre-rookie driving it.

[NWChen]

Do you guys have more images/media of Everybot besides what's on your website and the Recoil video?

[bEdhEd]

I think this is just as helpful, if not more helpful than robot in 3 days.

[ahartnet]

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

Luis, this is an awesome program, I wonder who gave you the idea? Just messing with you.

This is turning out even better than I expected when we first talked about it. I would suggest adding more specifications for each of your prototypes like which motors & gearboxes you are using. It helps teams that don't have any idea of where to start to see suggestions.

I hope this robot turns out very well, maybe it can even compete in the fall with a pre-rookie driving it.

Looks like fall was not optimistic enough...

Glad y'all did this.

[Monochron]

Trying to put myself in the place of someone coming into FIRST with no prior experience, I don't think this would give me too much of a jump on how to build an effective robot. For example, the cam actuated choo-choo is a somewhat complicated mechanism and it would have been much more beneficial if you documented how it was build with pictures and/or videos. If someone is at the point where they are unable to come up with any kind of mechanism on their own, they will likely need a lot of guidance to build a working choo-choo.

In the "Brainstorming" section it might be helpful to actually post some of your brainstorming notes. Even something like random sketches would be helpful just to see what level of detail is needed for good brainstorming.

I think this was a really great idea. Detailing a simple yet reliable build process from a very experienced team can be a huge help to young teams, as long as you include enough detail to follow along to.