pic: Dozer

[Woolly]

This would be a great robot to have around to practice creating assists.
Or in every other year as a stand-in defense robot.

[Richard Wallace]

Dozer would be a #1 pick, if it could pass inspection. Silly rules about frame perimeter and bumpers ....

[GaryVoshol]

Dave Lavery needs to make a road trip to Michigan for a photo op.

[MrBasse]

Thanks for all the kind words, we were surprised nobody had ever built one before.

From my addition to the Dozer thread:

...For our promotional and testing projects we created what we call our "Universal Robotics Platform."

The URP was taking form to be a large, fast, and off road capable machine that we could use for football games to cover the field quickly while carrying a large payload (think t-shirt cannon/s). As it took it's final form, we naturally added a few blue panels and some eyes and got this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-UB_r2Bqo

"Dozer"
36" X 24" X 18"
195 lbs
Optima Red Top Battery
Four CIM Drive through CIMple Boxes
Geared for 32 ft/s to clear a football field in a hurry
Programmed speed defaults to 50% and requires driver input to reach full speed
10" Pneumatic wheelchair tires to handle offroad situations
Servo driven eyes
Almost FRC legal... and we still have to make his blade silver.

[Joseph Smith]

Love the eyes! You guys should add a mechanism to actuate the shovel.

[MrBasse]

Originally Posted by Joseph Smith

Love the eyes! You guys should add a mechanism to actuate the shovel.

We had plans for that, the whole thing will be upgraded when we have more time. He needs eyebrows badly, and a front right wheel that taps when he gets impatient.

[Gilgamesh]

So wonderful

[tr6scott]

Well Played!

[mwtidd]

Brilliant!

Your team should start a kickstarter and sell mini dozers.

[MrBasse]

Originally Posted by lineskier

Brilliant!

Your team should start a kickstarter and sell mini dozers.

But mini Dozers would take the fun out of it. Part of the joy of this is that it weighs 200 lbs., can do a nice burnout, travels at speeds that are decent for outdoors (but terrifying indoors), and has a steel frame that we have witnessed destroying our 2x4 low goal without thinking twice about it. The blade is non-functional, but the name Dozer is very well suited.

Honestly, if anyone has leftover kitbot parts from 2011-12 they can build the same thing. The only things that didn't come from the kit of parts was the frame, the non-marring wheels, the battery, some wiring, and a relay block we use for testing. The steel was donated, so I figure we have about $150-$175 into this project and everything else was recycled.

Although...a mini Dozer would probably be fun too...I just can't handle another project right now.

[mlantry]

Einstein 2014? best robot i've ever seen in FRC history.

[george.tan]

Can someone build the boot bot now?

[Calvin Hartley]

I've always wanted to do this. Props to you for actually doing it.

[hrench]

our team has been toying with the idea of building li'l dozer for a while, but the kids want to use him as the robot cart. He'll pass that inspection!

[Clem1640]

Thanks for doing this. Pure genius!