[Ri3D] The GreenHorns 2017

[Ginger Power]

Originally Posted by zinthorne

Thank you! I was trying to understand how you managed to fit the intake inside the volume dimensions. Makes sense now.

We attempted to maximize the size of the intake while making sure our bumpers still covered 6 inches. It's a similar challenge as doing an open bumper last year, which many teams struggled with.

[Ginger Power]

The GreenHorns have posted our Day One and Day Two update videos!

We've attempted to maximize the number of action shots in our videos while also describing our thought process on each mechanism. Please post here if you have any questions about our robot, our videos, or the game! Look out for our Day Three update video coming later tonight. It'll be a longer video that shows a lot of robot action. Let us know if you have any requests for our final videos.


(Running on 2 hours of sleep + sick... this can't be healthy...)

[Ether]

Hi Ryan,

Do the Greenhorns have an Ri3D journal or blog posted somewhere, summarizing your progress and design rationale?

[Ginger Power]

Originally Posted by Ether

Hi Ryan,

Do the Greenhorns have an Ri3D journal or blog posted somewhere, summarizing your progress and design rationale?

Hi Ether, I really appreciate you asking all the Ri3D teams for insight into our design/thought processes. The videos are great, but you can learn a lot more from reading a white paper than you can from a video. I learned this last year when the white paper for our Ri3D robot generated a long discussion thread while our videos did not.

Our plan is to release a number of white papers shortly after Ri3D (when we get back to college). We'll detail all of our different designs, the specs on each, the effectiveness of each, and how we would improve them given more time. If you have specifics that you want included in those papers, I would love to hear them.

Unless requested, we won't discuss our thoughts on strategy, because due to the nature of Ri3D we need to rush through the rules. We basically just said let's prototype for everything so teams can see it.

[Ether]

Originally Posted by Ginger Power

Our plan is to release a number of white papers shortly after Ri3D (when we get back to college). We'll detail all of our different designs, the specs on each, the effectiveness of each, and how we would improve them given more time.

Thank you !!

[Robopromo]

Originally Posted by Ginger Power

We attempted to maximize the size of the intake while making sure our bumpers still covered 6 inches. It's a similar challenge as doing an open bumper last year, which many teams struggled with.

A 6 inch bumper is what you'd want to use, especially this year, to help increase the amount of intake you can have. It'll also save on weight, making it easier to climb potentially. Here's a link to a 6 inch bumper and bumper cover: http://www.robopromo.com/product_p/rp-2018.htm

http://www.robopromo.com/product_p/rp-2019.htm

[Ginger Power]

Originally Posted by Robopromo

It'll also save on weight, making it easier to climb potentially.

While saving on weight is usually good, it's pretty easy to generate enough power for a max weight robot to climb in a compact and light package. We used a 775pro in a 140:1 versaplanetary and had no trouble at all climbing in around 7 seconds.

Also looks like some awesome bumper options for teams to check out!