pic: 179 Swampthing 2k4

[JoeXIII'007]

OK.
It's green.
It runs on batteries, no gas.
It's a earth-friendly green machine. LOL :-)
Nice job on the bot.

[Amanda 179]

The pvc is great at lifting the balls and the motors do just fine. we cant drive up the stairs, our wheels are only 6 inches, but we can get up onto the platform if we use the arm. It runs like a dreamy swamp thing.

[jacob_dilles]

nice paint!!!!

[Swampdude]

http://www.179swampthing.org/images/...%20vid%201.avi

Hanging is very painful to watch! 10' what were they thinking?

[jacob_dilles]

...ouch thats gotta hurt

[dez250]

as i said before, all i can do is sit here and be glorified by the success of Team 179. Each year they pull out a great machine and it works pretty well. Once again Congrads go out to Tytus and all of Team 179!

[Tytus Gerrish]

ive got to hand it to amanda for learning to operate that arm so quickely and so well makes my job Much easier all i have to do it make it go and fix it when it breaks. I cant wait for UCF

[edomus]

Originally Posted by Swampdude

http://www.179swampthing.org/images/...%20vid%201.avi

Hanging is very painful to watch! 10' what were they thinking?

Is anyone else not able to play the movie?

[dez250]

Originally Posted by edomus

Is anyone else not able to play the movie?

You need a codec plugin to view it, i will try to post a link to a downloadable area for a working codec.

[Arefin Bari]

awesome job swampthing... cant wait till i see that robot in person...

tytus... i knew that you guys would come up with something competitive this year when you have first talked me before the kick off!

[J Flex 188]

loooks great guys, really im impressed with your ability to lift and move with the 2x ball so effortlessly. a questionL was the first 15 seconds where you took the 2x and managed to knock down the 10 pt bonus all in autonomous mode, or was anyone controlling it?

im just as impressed as last year =D!!!

[Swampdude]

Originally Posted by J Flex 188

loooks great guys, really im impressed with your ability to lift and move with the 2x ball so effortlessly. a questionL was the first 15 seconds where you took the 2x and managed to knock down the 10 pt bonus all in autonomous mode, or was anyone controlling it?

im just as impressed as last year =D!!!

No that was controlled, but we do have autonomous working good. We can get the 10x ball or grab the 2x and bring the goal back. "But" there's a second arm we shipped 1/2 done. We're going to catch all the trough balls if our alliance partner has a bot like ours. The idea being during seeding we can switch out the arms depending on who we're allied with. But in the finals when there's 3 of us and say 2 are like ours and 1 is a ball catcher. We can perform either function as needed to compliment the other, while still being able to hang.

[Jonathan M.]

Another SC team has ball grippers like those too. Interesting how one design can be so significan't many years later. I've actually seen some direct replicas of ball grappers from 2001's game this year. But anyway, Swampthing, you have an awesome robot again this year. Good luck, and see you at UCF!

Originally Posted by Swampdude

No that was controlled, but we do have autonomous working good. We can get the 10x ball or grab the 2x and bring the goal back. "But" there's a second arm we shipped 1/2 done. We're going to catch all the trough balls if our alliance partner has a bot like ours. The idea being during seeding we can switch out the arms depending on who we're allied with. But in the finals when there's 3 of us and say 2 are like ours and 1 is a ball catcher. We can perform either function as needed to compliment the other, while still being able to hang.

Can you make wieght with both arms at the same time? Becuase there's a rule that says you can't have modular parts, and that everything that goes on the robot has to be weighed at the same time and be under 130 lbs.

[Tytus Gerrish]

oh thats right, dan compressed it in divx format

the codec can be found here http://download.divx.com/divx/DivX511.exe

[Swampdude]

Yah actually our bot weighs 118, and the second arm is only a couple pounds :-)