Team 2582 Pantherbots present "10 INCH WHEELS"

[_Daniel_Gonzo_]

Hello everyone! Reveal video here from Team 2582 of Lufkin, Texas!

This year we will be playing at the Lone Star Regionals (as per usual). Enjoy the video!

Ask any questions you may have

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsxJu6Vmssc

[lynca]

Looking forward to seeing this robot at Lone Star Regional.
Definitely one of the most intricate designs I have seen from 2582.

Good Luck at the competition.

[Wayne Doenges]

Very Kewl. I hope you guys do well.
One thing I noticed. The ball looks like it could be easily knocked out of its cradle with a hard hit from the side. You may want to add some kind of cage around it.
Good luck this year.

[Tmeziere]

Looks like an awesome robot. Are you planning on doing anything to protect the intake motor?

[_Daniel_Gonzo_]

Originally Posted by Tmeziere

Looks like an awesome robot. Are you planning on doing anything to protect the intake motor?

Well, when we discussed the matter of the motor (post fabrication of our aluminum) we decided that it would be on the lower end of our worries and accepted the fact that, with protection or without protection, the motor was likely going to end up damaged. So, when I wired the robot, I made the motor removable with male-female leads and we have extra gearboxes and motors ready to go in case we need to switch it out. Thanks for bringing that up though! I hadn't thought about that motor for a while.

Best of luck!

[trumpthero786]

Those tires are cool! I love the way it goes over the moat!

[_Daniel_Gonzo_]

Originally Posted by lynca

Looking forward to seeing this robot at Lone Star Regional.

Definitely one of the most intricate designs I have seen from 2582.



Good Luck at the competition.

Thanks a bunch! I myself am not going to be at Lone Star Regional due to CPW at MIT, however feel free to check out our pit and look at our robot!

Thanks for the positive feedback. Cheers!

Good luck at regionals!

[Physicguy]

Originally Posted by Wayne Doenges

Very Kewl. I hope you guys do well.
One thing I noticed. The ball looks like it could be easily knocked out of its cradle with a hard hit from the side. You may want to add some kind of cage around it.
Good luck this year.

Yep that is a good point... I think what we were thinking was to keep the boulder in the intake mechanism until we were ready to shoot. It is a issue will have to address, thanks for pointing that out for us.

[_Daniel_Gonzo_]

Originally Posted by Physicguy

Yep that is a good point... I think what we were thinking was to keep the boulder in the intake mechanism until we were ready to shoot. It is a issue will have to address, thanks for pointing that out for us.

I'm going to reply to Wayne through Physicguy's comment and say that our team had the same strategy in mind. We only will load the ball when ready to shoot. Adding a cage would make it harder for our robot to cross the low goal, and interfere with the planning of the removable shooting mechanism. (It's modular)

[Chris Endres]

Nice! Have you tried putting bumpers on? Looks like the arm may interfere with the front 8" segments.

[_Daniel_Gonzo_]

Originally Posted by Chris Endres

Nice! Have you tried putting bumpers on? Looks like the arm may interfere with the front 8" segments.

Our raw aluminum and water jetting process was 2 weeks late (I had to take the robot chassis home over a weekend to wire it) and we did not have the bumpers completed before the video was made. We have tested with bumpers completed (using our practice bot) and the arms clear! We made sure during the cadding process that it would work. Just sometimes that cad vs real world doesn't always work out. Thanks for the concern! Always something we could've missed.

Cheers

[_Daniel_Gonzo_]

Originally Posted by trumpthero786

Those tires are cool! I love the way it goes over the moat!

Why thank you!

We got the tires from Harbor Freight. They are advertised as 10" wheels and they are in fact 10.25" wheels (why our robot is called "10 INCH WHEELS", we had to sand down the tires)

ITS BOUNCY AND WE LOVE IT! I wired it and made sure it was solid wiring, check it out.

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by _Daniel_Gonzo_

Why thank you!

We got the tires from Harbor Freight. They are advertised as 10" wheels and they are in fact 10.25" wheels (why our robot is called "10 INCH WHEELS", we had to sand down the tires)

ITS BOUNCY AND WE LOVE IT! I wired it and made sure it was solid wiring, check it out.

Just curious. Why are you using last gen motor controllers?

[_Daniel_Gonzo_]

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

Just curious. Why are you using last gen motor controllers?

We don't have the funding to purchase SRXs just yet, and we have a large amount of Victors, so we just used them instead. They are our favorite controllers and were optimal for the wiring challenges we faced.

[philso]

Nice layout and very neat wiring.

What are the cylindrical parts on the red and black wires at the inputs to your motor controllers? They look too big to be your crimp lugs. Are you using 1/4" "Faston" tabs and crimp receptacles as quick connects for the Talons? Is that a spare motor output with the wires sticking up near the frame rails?

See you at Lone Star.