how far have you gotten on your robot?

[Daniel Morse]

Well...we know what we want it to do and have a mock up of the field (that we have to take down all the time because we don't have a space to leave it up). We are in design groups, and working as fast as possible to come up with a good design.

[Schwartzman]

Our team has gotten our camera working perfectly to track the green target and we have some working prototypes of our shooter, ball collector, and hopper.

[sanddrag]

Wow, it seems like quite a few people are pretty far ahead in my book. I mean, approaching finished, competition ready mechanisms/parts at the start of week 2? That's either impressive or frightening, I haven't decided which.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Wow, it seems like quite a few people are pretty far ahead in my book. I mean, approaching finished, competition ready mechanisms/parts at the start of week 2? That's either impressive or frightening, I haven't decided which.

Either that, or someone hasn't heard of "Haste makes waste" and isn't going to have a winning robot. I'm willing to bet that most of these teams are using Kitbot as their drivebase.

We are still in basic design, but we have one component made: the flag holder, minus endcap. We are also prototyping like anything this week.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Wow, it seems like quite a few people are pretty far ahead in my book. I mean, approaching finished, competition ready mechanisms/parts at the start of week 2? That's either impressive or frightening, I haven't decided which.

The mechanical aspect is only half of the game.

[mechanicalbrain]

We have our camera assembled but so far that's it. I'm looking at starting our electrical system soon though.

[Donut]

For programming, we managed to get our camera to move some before our laptop yelled at us and stopped cooperating. We also figured out what sensors we needed and laid out what we think would be a good control board, it will be changed though.

Mechanical is building the chassis and transmissions from the kit (with modifications of course), and deciding what parts need to be bought.

Everything else is prototypes and drawings though.

[Spiffizzle]

Team 1676 had a prototype 1 shooter!
~ kit bot wheels
~ small sim motor
~ 1:1 gear ratio
~ Approximately 2000 rpm
~ 1.2 inches of ball compression



Results:
~ Really far.
~ Really fast.

Originally Posted by Spiffizzle

Team 1676 had a prototype 1 shooter!
~ kit bot wheels
~ small sim motor
~ 1:1 gear ratio
~ Approximately 2000 rpm
~ 1.2 inches of ball compression



Results:
~ Really far.
~ Really fast.

Cool! We are at the same step, except we went thru the prototypes 5 times..

Our structure was built out of the kop frame materials.. *SHIVERS*

We started with one KOP gear box, followed by two, followed by a repositioning, followed by using a drill motor.. THEN finally using the exact same set up as the one in your picture XD, except with 1 wheel.. Then we tried it with two... then...

._.;; hopefully we'll be able to finish our real launcher instead of playing around with those stuff..

We are way behind.. T_T

[ChuNalt787]

we have one prototype of a mechanism to pick up our balls from the ground that works like a dream. we are now prototyping the frame for that with smaller drums to be put on a ghost chasis that wont be used for more than prototyping. we will then make the final one. were doin pretty good. we are usin the kitbot with the kop transmission cause we are a rookie team and just tryin to get stuff figured out.

[ewankoff]

yeah the prototype above uses most of last years transmissions parts and also there are gonna be alot more improvements but this was just proof of concept. the final version is gonna be with more rpms and with a belt drive to conserve space.

[Uberbots]

A little update as to how far we have gotten...
we have integrated physics caluculations into the code, so that the shooter can actually track the goal.
and it scores 9/10 of the shots.

oh boy a great victory for the programming team tongight! we have autonomous shooting!

[Leo 1529]

we have only got the electronics started and the field built