pic: FRC1675 The Ultimate Protection Squad: Punisher

[Kevin Kolodziej]

Originally Posted by Chris Endres

Any reason the wheels are independently controlled/powered? And nice anodizing job, as always.

The thought was to provide power where it is needed, and allow each wheel to do what it needs to as we go over the defenses. If the wheel in contact with a lip or edge gets bogged down, the wheel at the carpet still has full power, rather than all wheels getting bogged down together with a central gearbox. We'd rather stall 2 CIMS than all 6, but if they were linked, they likely wouldn't stall anyway. As a secondary reason, it made packaging everything into this tiny bot much easier to put the motors where they need to be. If we really find that we need the power to be linked, we can do that, but so far it has had no issues with the defenses, other than our (currently) wooden moat, but it certainly isn't a power issue.

Great job, guys! However, it does seem to closely resemble Team Oryon's robot (Sirius) from Ri3D...

I assure you this is completely by coincidence. The basic design was done before Sirius was unveiled and when we saw it, we said the same thing. What can we say...great minds think alike!