Team 95 2017 Build Thread

[JamesCH95]

Originally Posted by MrBasse

I see some 1.25"ish cylinders in each corner of that frame....are we looking to avoid being pushed around by lifting the whole robot?

No... Never... We totally haven't done this before and won a Creativity award for it...

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

So the pair of overlapped cylinders from green to yellow are probably to tilt the yellow bit down to ease the gear entry from the loading station. The four long stroke, small bore cylinders (plus linear rods!) from red to (probably) green are either to get the gear mechanism over the bumper into the wall for loading a gear, or maybe for putting it in place? There's the sideways one under the gear to pivot the blue wings open/closed on those hinges, I'm assuming that one has a bushing instead of a pin in the end of the cylinder.

And then the four in the corners of the chassis which are probably brakes.

That's definitely a lot of air consumption, even if you're regulating down since most of those probably don't need 60psi.

Winner winner, chicken dinner.

So, it 2014 we had a robot with a similar air setup. 4x spring-return cylinders for brakes, 2x air cylinder ball shifters, and then eight(8) 3/4inx6in cylinders to actuate the four panels of the robot (see below). We used the 9% duty cycle Viair with a fan running over it (the fan is a TREMENDOUS help) and 6x of the small metallic Clippard tanks for storage. We didn't have any air consumption issues that year. For this year, we're looking at fewer air cylinders with shorter strokes (but similar bores) and hopefully a better compressor. I anticipate success!

2014 Robot: