How roboust is your teams robot going to be?

[sanddrag]

One word answer: very.

[Ryan M.]

Despite the fact that many teams rejected (at least in the forums ) the idea of a hopper for catching the balls when they first fall, our team decided to give it a try. I don't know all the details (I'm a programmer not a hopper designer) but if we get hit while our hopper is out, it could snap. It would (supposedly) have to be a really hard collision, though.

[Matt Attallah]

Hahahahahaha!!

After 1.5 years of my driving - altough i'm not going to drive this year - my engineers have always wanted a robust robot - but now it's required for my type of driving! hahahahaha!

Na, but ours will be very robust.

[Tyler 783]

Well our teams moto is build it 100 times as strong as it needs to be then drill holes in it because it's too heavy. Last year nothing that our team built broke. Except those stupid drill transmitions. If any of you saw our team in the pits I was probably in the back replacing a drill transmition. This year we are not using the supplied transmitions so nothing on our robot will break.

[Case]

The chassis itself will never break. However we may have some problems with our other mechanisms, but its too early in the build to really determine.

Yeah, I hear that with drill motors, last year we had our robot on its back with about 15 people trying to make it work in time for our match.

[Sachiel7]

Ok, try this:
Think a tank with wheels. But a lightweight tank. That'll give you an idea of our bot.
We have about 75% of our drive done, and the chassis plus a few more drive components is just shy of 25 lbs. And it can take some major load.
Me (co-captain) and the captian both gave it our good old stress test, we sat on it, tried standing on it, gave it a few whacks, etc. Our weight combined is near 400 lbs. Our chassis didn't even flex.
I'm quite pleased with the way things are turning out with our drive/chassis this year. It actually looks like a slick bot. Well, slicker than anything we've done before.
Anyway, expect our bot to be taking major bashes without any effect this year. Oh, and we shouldn't get flipped like we did once last year (*see avatar).

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by Texan

Despite the fact that many teams rejected (at least in the forums ) the idea of a hopper for catching the balls when they first fall, our team decided to give it a try. I don't know all the details (I'm a programmer not a hopper designer) but if we get hit while our hopper is out, it could snap. It would (supposedly) have to be a really hard collision, though.

wouldn it also tip over with the weight of those balls going at it? that would be cool to watch...

[mtaman02]

well im not going to give away any magical secrets but the robot that i went to is building will be robust like every yr and im hoping they can make it their 4th. yr with no mechanical failures.


Hey 522 you know what time it is rite its nearing robo time!

I had to put that in they'll probably beat me up later today when they read the forums lol.

i'd post a teaser for your guys but your way too smart and i can't have the fun go away in a day or two.

[Arrowsmith]

We built our own trans so we won't have to deal with those infernal drill transmissions. We are also implementing "The Waddler", which will uber-increase our manuverability.

[tenfour]

Our robot is being built using methods fairly new to our team, but it will me just the more robust. We will be sturdy, yet light enough to have more function than ever before.

For those of you out there who recall our game play in previous years (namely last ), stay tuned! You have just witnessed the beginning!!

Tenfour

[Lord Nerdlinger]

right now, if a strong breeze blew through our shop i doubt our robot would remain standing..
but hopefully it'll get stronger