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Re: pic: Titanium Tomahawks 2170 Teaser

And Akash I really want to see those cinematic shots of the robot before the reveal haha
Good luck this year to your team.

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Re: pic: Titanium Tomahawks 2170 Teaser

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What're the black rollers made out of? It looks like continuous strand carbon fiber.
2170 ain't got money fo dat

Thanks Derek - please follow the Facebook and Twitter for all media! I'll have my DSLR in the shop near the end, we still have a lot of work to do. Your sheet is looking sick so far!

Some background on this team: very intelligent and enthusiastic kids and mentors, very little school support. This robot is built with COTS parts and only manual hand and power tools. 3D printing helped a ton filling in the gaps!

We also only meet three days a week, of which we lost 3 to snow days, so things have e been tough.

I'll make sure the kids update social media often. Thanks for the support!
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The rollers are 2" diameter PVC and they're coated in liquid Flex Seal (as seen on TV).

http://www.flexsealproducts.com/product/liquid/
How have you guys liked the flex seal? How do you think it compares to other methods of creating rollers (urethane or latex tubes, wheels, et cetera)?
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Re: pic: Titanium Tomahawks 2170 Teaser

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Looking good! Good luck this year. Only question: Are you worried about being too top heavy when moving throughout the playing the field and suddenly stopping? Just wondering.
I'm a little worried, but not too much. There's maybe five pounds total for that mechanism at the top of the robot, and then there are the rollers (what are they for, why are there two of them?), but otherwise almost all of the robot's mechanisms, motors, etc. are pretty low to the ground. The robot will pretty clearly come in underweight, allowing for ballast to be placed in the drivetrain near the end of build season.

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Seem some 2009*shudder* inspiration in this robot.
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Personally, I'm curious about how that ramp is getting raised and lowered. I'm liking the concept though--this is borderline cheesecake-able to help a team operate at a higher level.
I agree that this game is very similar to 2009 in terms of how fuel should be handled by any team.

Without giving everything away, this robot's fuel manipulation prioritizes volume over scoring directly. At lower levels of play, this robot can cycle gears and hang, with some low goal action whenever the robot gets the chance to score a point or two. At higher levels, this robot could grow into a great assisting robot, helping top tier shooters with fuel acquisition.

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This is very similiar to our design. We are using pnuematics to raise our floor(very slowly) and close off the opening for the space that we intake fuel from the floor.
Pneumatics would definitely be an option for powering the elevator that would be robust and repeatable. However, this team doesn't have any other pneumatic needs on the robot, and the team has a strong software group as well as a history with chain driven single stage elevators (2015). So a smaller, lighter version of the 2015 elevator was an obvious choice.

The floor raises and lowers primarily because it nearly doubles the robot's ball capacity over a more conventional belt-driven ball loader thing. The floor also needs to be at a few different heights for the various outtake functions the robot can do.

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I'd work on some weight down low if you can. If you accelerate quickly and then stop suddenly this robot is on its side.
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I think the reason this rubbed people the wrong way was not attempting to point out an issue, but the tone of the message, specifically how absolutely certain you are of the issue. The way it's phrased gives off the impression that you're certain the team hadn't thought of this issue or planned anything to deal with it.

Contrast it to the message posted directly above you, which is saying exactly the same thing but in a much nicer tone. By phrasing the concern as a question, it invites the team to respond with their plans to lower the CG of the robot. If the team truly didn't plan for this, they get the information needed to know it's an issue, and if the team did plan for this, they're able to respond with their plans for doing so.
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Re: pic: Titanium Tomahawks 2170 Teaser

Awesome looking robot, best of luck to your team!
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Re: pic: Titanium Tomahawks 2170 Teaser

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The floor also needs to be at a few different heights for the various outtake functions the robot can do.
I will be interested in seeing how often teams end up "feeding" great high goal shooting robots at events. I can see it happening frequently later in the season by robots that are great at collecting balls as they do gear trips and can quickly feed alliance members. Will probably be the ideal 3rd pick by championship(s)- *climbing rope and placing gears obv. included in that set of skills

Good luck interested to see how it works out
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How have you guys liked the flex seal? How do you think it compares to other methods of creating rollers (urethane or latex tubes, wheels, et cetera)?
It will peel on PVC. We figured that might be an issue but we wanted to try it out anyway. Gonna go to our non-experimental roller grip if it continues to peel. Just thought it was neat to try something new

As for feeding other bots, we're really hoping we get to a-bomb into a few bits! We purposely built a waterfall intake so we could also hold balls in the conveyor Incase we want to just reverse it to feed others.
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