Team 61 2004 robot

[Mike Norton]

http://www.valleytech.k12.ma.us/robo...photos2004.htm

Pictures will be posted daily on or web site.

If you have any question on any piece please e-mail and I will try to get a better picture or I will explain it.

[157#1Driver]

where do you get them rims for the tracks?

[Mike Norton]

Originally Posted by 157#1Driver

where do you get them rims for the tracks?

We made them from the Breco Flex pulleys.

We have a Junior named Eric in Drafting that designed them and brought them across the hall to the machine shop and had them cut out. He does all the programing of the CNC and Bridgeport machines.

[Arefin Bari]

i like those rims... those are sweeeeet.... great job guys...

[BillyGoats]

Originally Posted by expiredzbyte

i like those rims... those are sweeeeet.... great job guys...

Thanks

[Nick Mac]

Those are really cool. Were they extremely hard to do? They look so perfect in the pictures.

[BillyGoats]

Originally Posted by Nick Mac

Those are really cool. Were they extremely hard to do? They look so perfect in the pictures.

Well the advantage of going to a tech school is that you have a machine shop and drafting shop that can work on it all day, it was drawn out in drafting in CAD and then brought across the hall to machine shop where they programed it in to one of the drills.

So to answer your question where they hard to make, in some ways yes it was and some ways it was not.

[Alaina]

Is that a wooden bot I see? A very snazzy wooden bot? What made you choose wood? My team had a wooden bot last year but that was because we didn't have access to a machine shop but it seems you are working in one...
Good choice, never the less...

[BillyGoats]

Originally Posted by Alaina

Is that a wooden bot I see? A very snazzy wooden bot? What made you choose wood? My team had a wooden bot last year but that was because we didn't have access to a machine shop but it seems you are working in one...
Good choice, never the less...

Check out all of our previous robots, all wood even tho some may not look like it. We use the same base every year. It has been proven to take a beating and keep going, never once had a problem with a base. Again going to a tech school has it's perks all we have to do it go down to Carpentry and they do it out for us. The only changes you may see is the front slots cut out so we are able to go up a ramp or another type of task.

Here is an example of one that does not look wooden but it is.

http://www.valleytech.k12.ma.us/robo...photos2002.htm

[Solace]

Originally Posted by Alaina

Is that a wooden bot I see? A very snazzy wooden bot? What made you choose wood? My team had a wooden bot last year but that was because we didn't have access to a machine shop but it seems you are working in one...
Good choice, never the less...

hey, don't be dissing the plywood! there are a few cool looking plywood bots around. remember this one or this one? Our team has access to a machine shop, yet we also go with the wooden chassis every year.

[SpaceOsc]

Originally Posted by Solace

hey, don't be dissing the plywood! there are a few cool looking plywood bots around. remember this one or this one? Our team has access to a machine shop, yet we also go with the wooden chassis every year.

2003 RAGE 173 bot Was Made out of WOOD?

[Tom Bottiglieri]

hey solace.. dont be forgettin about the cyber knights .. ck2003 ..well we used baltic birch which was pretty much indestructable. Yes, it is heavy and expensive lol, but we never had a problem with it in 4 years.

[Eric Bareiss]

I applaud team 61 for posting pics of their robot early. Most teams are too afraid that someone will steal their design. I think that this is something that needs to change. Chiefdelphi is supposed to be about sharing.

If you have a good idea, share it. If someone else uses it, good.

[Alaina]

Originally Posted by Solace

hey, don't be dissing the plywood! there are a few cool looking plywood bots around. remember this one or this one? Our team has access to a machine shop, yet we also go with the wooden chassis every year.

*gasps* I think I'd die before I dissed a plywood robot!
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of this one.

That's muh Spicy!

[BFFRK]

Originally Posted by Eric Bareiss

I applaud team 61 for posting pics of their robot early. Most teams are too afraid that someone will steal their design. I think that this is something that needs to change. Chiefdelphi is supposed to be about sharing.

If you have a good idea, share it. If someone else uses it, good.

Thank you for your surport in what we are doing. The way I see it is, with all teams throwing ideas around, if another team uses what you do, then you know your doing something right. PLus even with posting alot of pics doesn;t mean it can be copied, everything that is made is tested, worked on, tested agian, changed, tested, changed, test, till its done.... there is nothing wrong with taking a peek, or sharing, cuz it gonna be hard to get the same results from just lookoing at a pic, so yea, i do to believe other teams should be sharing