Motors.. and more motors.. How many on your 2004 bot?

[OneAngryDaisy]

As this building season ends, most of us have a general idea of how our robots are going to look.. I'm curious to see how many motors everyone used this year, as the game is significantly more complicated than last year.. (servo included)

341 used a grand total of 3 motors......... last year- this year we're already up to 11, and only one servo too.. we probably will need to lose some weight..


You could always mention which motors you used for what functions, I bet we'll be seeing alot of window/van door winches

[abeD]

As of now...

6 motors (2 chips, 2 fp's, 2 globes)

6 pnematic cylinders

there are pics here in the gallery and you can see where they all go on drivetrain

and arm

last year we had 6 motors too, but only one pnematic cylinder

[Joe Ross]

2 Drill motor drive and 2 fisher price motor winch. No pneumatics

[Rickertsen2]

2 chips - drive train
2 drills - drive train
1 van door -arm
1 window - arm
1 globe - wouldn't you like to know
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7 motors

pnumatics:
4 cylinders

[greencactus3]

2 drills = drive
um.... 1, 2, 3, 4 cylinders,
i want a keyang motor(1lbs) on for another application which should weigh a total of maybe 3lbs at the most if we have 3lbs to spare....
and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of bungee. or maybe a heavy duty spring.

[ngreen]

2 drill
2 window
1 globe
1 van door
1 Fisher price
?1 globe

7-8

pneumaticaless this year. Too Bad.

4 motor 4 cyclinders last year

[Solace]

10 motors
6 pneumatic cylinders

2 drills 2 FP's for the drive train

1 van door 2 globes for the arm

1 chip for the ball sucker

2 servos for the ball thwacker (highly technical terms we use here)

pneumatics
1 for the ball sucker
1 for the goal grabber/platform climber
1 for the claw
2 for gear shifting
1 for engaging the winch


lots and lots of powered functions on this years bot.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

2 drills for drive
1 van door for arm rotation (over the bot)
1 globe for rotating arm itself
1 globe for other special tricks

[Paul H]

Haha...forgot about the window motors in my vote! And the servo! That brings us up to 11 motors. I'm not going to share allcoations just yet, though.

[Stephen P]

2 drill (drive train)
2 window (arm)
1 globe (plow arms)

hopefully another globe for 2x ball if we have time

[Sachiel7]

2 CIM - Drive
1 Window - Plow
1 Globe - Goal Hooks
1 Van Door - Arm Pivot
1 Window - Ball Grabber

No Pneumatics this time around...

[Greg Perkins]

2 chips for drive

(1) 24" pneumatic cylinder

(3) 3" pneumatic cylinder

(1) 12" cylinder

[Max Lobovsky]

2 drills -drive
2 window - ball plow
1 fp - lift winch
1 fp robot winch
1 seat - big ball holder
1/2 (we arent sure yet....) servo - shifter
1 servo - mobile goal hook

no pneumatics

thats a total of 9

[Alan Anderson]

If I'm not mistaken, our robot's software thinks there are ten motors, one compressor, and four pneumatic actuators. One of the actuators isn't included on the actual robot, but the software doesn't care.

Ten motors. And I thought we were designing something simple this year.

[jacob_dilles]

(2) drills -drivetrain
(1) vandoor -tower lift
(2) window -ball pattles
(2) servos -moble goal hook & bar hanging hook

as well as (1) compresser and (2) pistons. what great fun in the code... . 5 victors in 1.5 sq feet with 3 spikes and that new fuse block wasnt easy.