Spectrum 3847: Infrared Reveal

[nxtmonkeys]

Yeah. Toss up was a smaller version of this, but different.









-Zombies are jealous of our smartness. That is why they eat our brains.

[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by waialua359

Very impressed with the reveal video.
This robot can do it all!

Every time I look at that intake, I think of our VEX intake rollers for this year's game Toss Up.

The original design came from our Toss Up robot, we saw Boom Done's and we realized it could be better with wheels.

[Mark Sheridan]

Beautiful robot. What is the grand total of motors on this bot?

[Nathan Streeter]

Wow... love that intake!!

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Mark Sheridan

Beautiful robot. What is the grand total of motors on this bot?

I could probably find the answer by looking on their blog, but I'm going to hazard a guess for fun.

I'm going to say, 12. 4 CIM + 4 MiniCIM for the drivetrain. 2x 775s for the intake. 2x [insert 500 series motor here] for the catapult. A 13th if you count the motor inside the compressor.

[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

I could probably find the answer by looking on their blog, but I'm going to hazard a guess for fun.

I'm going to say, 12. 4 CIM + 4 MiniCIM for the drivetrain. 2x 775s for the intake. 2x [insert 500 series motor here] for the catapult. A 13th if you count the motor inside the compressor.

Close but the catapult is a lot stronger than that. 2 CIMs + 2 775s. We didn't show our deep ball in the video but we can just about make an 18 ft shot. Its not reliable enough right now for competition but if everything goes well it might be ready for Lone Star or for the summer events.

Total motor count is 14 plus 8 pneumatic cylinders. I'm doing a battery order tomorrow. We got 6 new ones last year and are buying 6 more this year. The launcher also should only run for a grand total of 15-20 seconds a match.

[Mark Sheridan]

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

Total motor count is 14 plus 8 pneumatic cylinders.

Epic

[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by Mark Sheridan

Epic

The cylinders are a combined total 10" of stoke, so its not that epic.

[AllenGregoryIV]

We listed some of the people and teams that helped inspire this robot.

More to come in the next few weeks.

[Bob Steele]

Brilliant robot

I hope we get a chance to see this on the field.. preferably in St. Louis and on the same alliance.

absolutely magnificent robot

[Donut]

Probably my favorite aspect of the robot design is the beautiful operator panel on the side for all the gauges and hookups. Half of the machine builders I work with haven't figured out that a programming port on an electrical panel is invaluable, and you guys have one on your robot.

Looking forward to some match footage of this competing.

[Jefferson]

Love this robot y'all!

Good luck.

[AllenGregoryIV]

We just posted our first Inside Infrared blog post.

It's about our bumpers.

We'll hopefully have more of these soon.

[Alex Cormier]

Looks nice, can you explain what you did with the noodles to get the nice corners?

[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by Alex Cormier

Looks nice, can you explain what you did with the noodles to get the nice corners?

They are just wrapped around the corners. After all the issues this season we ended up cutting about three times as many noodles as we needed since we weren't sure it would be legal, we cut them for vertical noodles first. We finally found out it was legal from Colin Fultz and went with the wrap around corners.