[Ri3d] Ri1W Unveil Video

[Andrew Rudolph]

We decided to have a slightly delayed release of our final video. But here is the full unveil video!

http://youtu.be/t-eT2WtyBzk


Big thanks to everyone who came out an helped, all the FTC teams and supporters out there, and our sponsors.

[Aidan H.]

I loved the reveal video and thought it was a good balance of "entertaining" and "informative" on how you went about building the Ri1W robot.
I did have a few questions about the materials you used:
Where did you buy the 80/20 (I think it is the smaller size)?
Where did you get the polycord (urethane belting) that you ended up using on your pickup?
Did you find it hard to maneuver on the field and interact with field elements (goals, balls) without having an omni-directional drive?

[Andrew Rudolph]

One of our team members (JR) works for an 80/20 distributor, he gives discounts to Florida FTC teams he works for Florida Motion and Control.

The polycord was purchased from McMaster its called Urethane Solid Core Round Belting, there are many options depending on how your going to use it.

The goals are large and stable enough that lining up wasn't too terrible, although getting the end effector lined up to score was tricky, I would put some mechanical alignment devices on the bot to aid the drivers with that if we were taking the bot to a tournament. Acquiring balls was relatively easy because there are so many of them its not like your having to aim to get one specific game piece. Then again we weren't in a match with 3 other robots, one thing was its easy to ride up on the smaller balls so teams might consider skirts or something to keep balls from under their chassis.