pic: Team 48 Teaser (?) - xtremachen 7.314159

[Travis Hoffman]

For our fall robotics classes, our students constructed a control system demonstration board for use as a teaching tool in future classes. Once we assembled the Kit Bot chassis and transmissions, instead of building a new, temporary controls base for the robot, we decided to save time and effort by mounting the demo board on top of the kitbot and wire the four speed controllers to the CIM's. The four motors you see on top of the board are the original demonstration motors, which are only along for the ride.

[Ian W.]

Originally Posted by T. Hoffman

For our fall robotics classes, our students constructed a control system demonstration board for use as a teaching tool in future classes. Once we assembled the Kit Bot chassis and transmissions, instead of building a new, temporary controls base for the robot, we decided to save time and effort by mounting the demo board on top of the kitbot and wire the four speed controllers to the CIM's. The four motors you see on top of the board are the original demonstration motors, which are only along for the ride.

That makes a lot more sense now... :-p

I was looking at the robot, I couldn't figure out what was going on, I thought maybe you guys were trying to make a hovercraft or something.

In any case, I think I have to say the sunglasses make that robot cooler than any other robot I've seen. I mean, seriously, who has ever seen a robot with aviators?