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Strangest thing built with FRC parts?
I've been looking about the web and found some pretty odd things built with FRC parts, including a robotic couch, mecanum forklifts, and more. What's the coolest non-competition object you've seen made entirely or partially with FRC parts?
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Re: Strangest thing built with FRC parts?
Driving Tank-Drive with a Wii Fit Balance Board is always a blast
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Re: Strangest thing built with FRC parts?
^This would be the coolest off season project ever. ^
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Okay, you have my attention...
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Robotic furniture? Paging Devin (also known as "RoboChair")...
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Re: Strangest thing built with FRC parts?
The Versa Franken-Frame has to be up there somewhere:
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Re: Strangest thing built with FRC parts?
Its really not that hard to do. In the past ive used software called glove pie. It takes inputs from Wiimotes and Wii balance boards and can output as a keyboard, mouse, or emulated joystick. Glove pie has a built in code generator but it can only go so far. The syntax is very straight forward and the documentation isn't bad.
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Re: Strangest thing built with FRC parts?
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You use GlovePIE to find the Wii Balance Board details, send it to the RoboRIO over Open Sound Control and viola. I also did a project using the Kinect, driving the robot by moving your hands up and down to control the throttle of each side. |
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Re: Strangest thing built with FRC parts?
Our champbot was built mostly with FRC parts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTUfxL1B0KM
Out of date speed controllers, motors, pneumatics, etc. |
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Re: Strangest thing built with FRC parts?
It wasn't entirely FRC legal parts, but I once built and FRC-style backpack compressor with an Arduino-controlled cooling fan that drew more power than the compressor itself at full blast... and generated about 1 pound of force of upward thrust. No, the backpack did not fly. But it did everything to increase that 9% duty cycle.
There was also the time I attempted to build and program a Segway-style drivebase for FRC, but never got that balancing loop programmed and tuned in right. However, that ADIS16448 worked like a charm. Maybe a degree of drift after 2 minutes, you couldn't really see it. Last edited by flemdogmillion : 29-01-2017 at 11:12. |
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Re: Strangest thing built with FRC parts?
It's a robot, but not an FRC robot.....and it turned into a movie....
https://www.wired.com/2014/12/4-mexi...obot-beat-mit/ |
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423 built a go cart robot that we used to drive around the halls during school and race kids running the track during gym. I personally built a ~1x2' mecanum robot I used to drive in circles around people walking in the hallways and cause general confusion. School-wide wifi and security cameras meant I could drive it around from the other side of the school with fair visibility and a good wifi connection. |
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We have a recliner mounted on a mecanum base.
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Re: Strangest thing built with FRC parts?
Here it is:
Last edited by mrnoble : 29-01-2017 at 12:53. |
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Re: Strangest thing built with FRC parts?
I'd really like to see that thing in action. It looks really cool.
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