Air Game 2016 - Do you have it?

[ASmith1675]

And now this is stuck in my head:

D-d-d-do you have it?

1992?! yeesh, where does the time go? Sad that current students won't know the glory of this kind of exceptional television.

[Richard Wallace]

Seems like this would be an appropriate addition to the FIRST Robotics Competition music rotation.

[OccamzRazor]

Originally Posted by Smitty1707

And now this is stuck in my head:

D-d-d-do you have it?

1992?! yeesh, where does the time go? Sad that current students won't know the glory of this kind of exceptional television.

Ah, to be a product of the 80's and grow up in the 90's.....

[jojoguy10]

We made a small jump over the moat :-D
http://imgur.com/gjXU4S2

[ctt956]

Originally Posted by jojoguy10

We made a small jump over the moat :-D
http://imgur.com/gjXU4S2

Why does that picture look strangely slightly familiar?

[Zac Schofield]

A week ago when we were testing our backup robot, (So that we wouldn't break our main one in testing) our Driver drove over the rock wall, and the robot flipped forward and landed upside down... Now, as some of you may know, that's where a lot of the important electrical things are... So our driver cracked our RoboRio, and it's completely destroyed.

We're never going to let him live that down

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by Zac Schofield

A week ago when we were testing our backup robot, (So that we wouldn't break our main one in testing) our Driver drove over the rock wall, and the robot flipped forward and landed upside down... Now, as some of you may know, that's where a lot of the important electrical things are... So our driver cracked our RoboRio, and it's completely destroyed.

We're never going to let him live that down

Jeez. Let the poor kid live it down he feels terrible. As a driver myself, I take complete responsibility for breaking things and when I do I feel really bad. I would probably hand the team $400 if I broke a rio.

It sounds like the mechanical teams fault for putting no protection on the top of the robot.

[Brian C]

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

It sounds like the mechanical teams fault for putting no protection on the top of the robot.

Spoken like a true robot driver!

Remember. "A robot can always be fixed but a match can never be replayed."

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by Brian C

but a match can never be replayed."

Unless there are FMS issues.

[Nuwanda]

We let our programmers drive (big mistake), and they drove the robot backwards over the moat. We have a mechanism that lifts up, which makes us top heavy when traversing defenses. They caught air and flipped the robot over, breaking the welds on our bumper mounts and bending the shooter. However, because they're programmers they just redid the interpolation tables for our motors as opposed to actually fixing the bent shooter.

[Brian C]

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

Unless there are FMS issues.

True. But that should never be considered a valid strategic option.

[gegozi]

Originally Posted by Zac Schofield

A week ago when we were testing our backup robot, (So that we wouldn't break our main one in testing) our Driver drove over the rock wall, and the robot flipped forward and landed upside down... Now, as some of you may know, that's where a lot of the important electrical things are... So our driver cracked our RoboRio, and it's completely destroyed.

We're never going to let him live that down

I hope you have a new rio, otherwise good luck, especially if you are competing early.

I wish you good luck either way, but you will especially need it if your roborio does not work...

[jojoguy10]

Originally Posted by ctt956

Why does that picture look strangely slightly familiar?

Not sure. Where do you think you've seen it?

[OccamzRazor]

Originally Posted by jojoguy10

Not sure. Where do you think you've seen it?

He means the wheels and the position of the robot, same as ours. Did you guys also use the harbor freight tires and slice the rims to make the tires seal to the AM hubs?

[dv/dt]

Originally Posted by OccamzRazor

He means the wheels and the position of the robot, same as ours. Did you guys also use the harbor freight tires and slice the rims to make the tires seal to the AM hubs?

We ended up keeping the HF rims, milling out the bearing hub and having some replacement hubs waterjet cut that uses the bolt pattern of the HF rims and a 1/2" hex hole. One hub on each side of the rims. We're really happy with these tires/hubs, they fit the sweet spot for our drivetrain between the AM tires and some 10" tires we tried.