Team 254 Presents: Dropshot

[nlknauss]

Originally Posted by waialua359

Ok Jared,
spill the beans....why?
I'm prepared to pay for the latest and greatest if I have to.

Beans Jared!

[sodizzle]

Calling a 33 type climb this year, refence this video. Telescoping arms similar to their 2013 climb.

[pipsqueaker]

If I may ask, where'd you get mecanums that small?

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by pipsqueaker

If I may ask, where'd you get mecanums that small?

Mini mecanums are available from a few places.

Sparkfun 2.125in https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11578

Nexus 60mm http://www.nexusrobot.com/product.php?id_product=122

Not sure which ones 254 is using but if you search around enough you can some.

[Nate Laverdure]

Originally Posted by pipsqueaker

If I may ask, where'd you get mecanums that small?

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[thatprogrammer]

Are you running a new form of drive code? Your robot appears to be driving even more smoothly than your previous robots, the drive never seems to "twitch!"

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by thatprogrammer

Are you running a new form of drive code? Your robot appears to be driving even more smoothly than your previous robots, the drive never seems to "twitch!"

That's just Christian being Christian.

[JOEL340]

Team 5030 is going to start vision tracking the goals for their next competition and we were wondering how many LED rings you guys have for vision tracking? It seems to bright for just one LED ring.

[pilleya]

Originally Posted by JOEL340

Team 5030 is going to start vision tracking the goals for their next competition and we were wondering how many LED rings you guys have for vision tracking? It seems to bright for just one LED ring.

You don't necessarily need to use a led ring, we added 6 high power green 5mm LEDs(with resistors running of 5v) and it has really improved the illumination of the target over just 1 led ring

[pmangels17]

I think I'm going blind (or my brain doesn't want me to see them) because I can't find the mecanums on this robot.

[Mike Marandola]

Originally Posted by pmangels17

I think I'm going blind (or my brain doesn't want me to see them) because I can't find the mecanums on this robot.

They are on one of the intake rollers.

[pmangels17]

Originally Posted by Mike Marandola

They are on one of the intake rollers.

I can't believe I missed that. Pretty cool system though, that's for sure. I can't wait to see what sort of hanger they break out, I'd imagine it'd be packaged in a size similar to the one from 2013.

[pilleya]

Originally Posted by pmangels17

I can't wait to see what sort of hanger they break out, I'd imagine it'd be packaged in a size similar to the one from 2013.

Well they have a fair amount of experience climbing with a Power Take-off(PTO) and there is a suspicious chain run, coming from around the drive gearbox and going somewhere, yes I can't wait to find out either

[jdunston94]

anyone else see the "addition"?
https://imgur.com/ZdTk1fd

[Zebra_Fact_Man]

Originally Posted by jdunston94

anyone else see the "addition"?
https://imgur.com/ZdTk1fd

That looks familiar to another Cali team.