Question of the Week!!! (9/6/04)

[Billfred]

Here's the beautiful thing--there isn't one. It all depends.

(tries to imagine all of these great robots sans appendages)

I do like 180's design from this year. With a wing, that robot could fly. Surface-to-Air Meat indeed.

I haven't seen it get much buzz in the past month or two, but what about 33's four-speed automatic?

And, of course, who could forget 1293's setup from this year? Window motors can do anything.

[Denman]

Hmm, 6 wheel drive is good, but i imagine the coding is horrible....
We are going to try building a wooden chassis and try different wheel configurations etc.

tank style is always good bet, and anyone who is in the nyc regional will tell you wer were mega fast and manouvarble

[Adam Y.]

Hmm, 6 wheel drive is good, but i imagine the coding is horrible....

Not really it would be like coding for a four wheel drive base. It should stear like a four wheel drive robot too since only four wheels are touching the ground at a given time.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Billfred

And, of course, who could forget 1293's setup from this year? Window motors can do anything.

Wait... your drive consisted of window motors?

wow...

[Arefin Bari]

Most effective drives that i have seen so far was 6 wheel drive or a tank thread drive... they work great on carpet... for example, SPAM's (180) tank thread from 2002 (fluffy) and 2003 (twitch) was great, 234's (cyber blue) tank thread system was very effective this year. As john pointed out before 254 and 60 are perfect example for a 6 wheel drive. Team 33's 4 speed transmission is awesome, would have been very effective for stack attack game (i havent seen many of their matches this year). Technokats always have a sweet drive train. also reminds me of Captain Krunch's (79) swerve drive from 2003 (stack attack), and Wildstangs spider drive...

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by Cory

Wait... your drive consisted of window motors?

wow...

Yep. Window motors. Just some sprockets and chain, and we were driving.

(In fairness to the other motors, we tried the CIM motors--but the brackets were about to twist off. And the drill motors, when they held together long enough to be placed, just couldn't fit right. So window motors it was.)

And the funny thing is, our drivetrain worked fine the whole time. I don't think we had any problems whatsoever with it at Palmetto. (This year, we're gonna use the same thinking for our arm!)

[Joe Matt]

111's 2004 drive system. God, it's BEAUTIFUL! I cried! Sure, it wasn't the fastest nor the most nible, but it could move across the platform WITHOUT EVEN CHANGING HEIGHT! WOW!

[Kyle Love]

I think I have two favorites, one was actually used. My favorite is the Ball Drive that 45 made last year as a "second robot". But, one that actually got used was Wildstangs drivebase this year, with omni wheels and the hydraulics to get up on to the platform to hang.

-Kyle

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Kyle45

Wildstangs drivebase this year, with omni wheels and the hydraulics to get up on to the platform to hang.

-Kyle

I saw that movie too.. It had The Beatles and Jay-Z on the soundtrack..

Im not good with drive systems but i think a good drive systems that works really well and is great is crab wheels. We had that on our robot this year.

-Court-

[suneel112]

The best drive system I ever saw this year was Wild Stangs (111's)
In sheer complexity, Stang's double (222, get it) would get my vote.

2003: I don't remember.

In 2002, Beatty (71) had an awesome drive system, coupled with an awesome robot.
We (461) also had a pretty cool drive system that year, but it weighed fifty pounds and left little weight for an arm. It was a good robot, though, and we even won against beatty in one match.