Toughest Bot

[Wayne C.]

Originally posted by Austin
we're very tough as in pushing power and robustness of our chassis, but not so much as in reliablility. I only got to see 25 in the finals...that bot was incredbally fast and really powerful. Could someone tell me hom many fps it was?

from the source- we calculated it at 13.6 FPS- 3.4 secs to the wall


It got away from us in programming at the school, ran up and over the ramp and flew about 8 feet through the air into a brick wall where it hit about 2 ft off the ground. It suffered no damage.

The bumpers on the front and back are supported out from the frame by a set of rubber stoppers. They are good shock absorbers.

The breaker trip in the finals was the ONLY mechanical problem we had since Annapolis. The team rebuilt our entire drill motor housing there because the tight turn in autonomous was flexing the motor mounts so much the drill housings were tearing themselves apart. Since then the machine was a pleasure to drive.

WC