how far have you gotten on your robot?

[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.

[Evil Robotics]

After one week team 1245 has a 6 wheel KIT drivetrain almost finished. The programmers can scam and track the green light. The ball launcher prototype made from 8020 and plywood is ready for accuracy testing. All field elements are built.

[Kim Masi]

Originally Posted by MrBlack298

Yes shceuing, yes we are.

But seriously, we are working on shooter prototypes. We arent going to have much trouble on the frame and harvester this year, so what we are doing is running three prototyping teams for shooters. We put one together a few days after kickoff and it failed miserably. It was really truly awful. Hopefully these upcoming designs will work far better.

the funny part is, jack, that we tried another one yesterday and it was even worse than that.

[BRosser314]

Well at the end of the first week our team has succesfully built a chassis that will go over the ramp. Still keeping our low center of gravity we are using a chasis similiar to KOP chassis and a tranny similiar to that of the KOP or if worst comes to worst the KOP tranny is what we will use. We have succesfully mad a ball collection device that picks up balls rather quick. And are shooter is nice we can shoot and have made baskets into a 27" hola hoop. and that was at about 30 feet away. So at the beginning of the second week we are beginning the techinical design and Fabrication. And also we have just found out that we lost one of our sponsors yesturday so we are going to be even better then we have been in the past, we think they were holding us back after the dissapointing last year. Wee have enough talent to design the robot plus we have aa the parts from the kit and previous year. So my prediction for how we are doing is better then we have in the past.

[Eric Scheuing]

Originally Posted by robochik52

the funny part is, jack, that we tried another one yesterday and it was even worse than that.

That was EO's, right? What happened with that?

[Dermot_135]

Done?

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by Cadets1033

Ok, My team is using the kitbot but I'm on animation need the computer generated parts to make our design and I was wondering if anyone knew where I could find Inventor files for the parts to the Kitbot. If you do, can you please send me a message or reply to this tread with a link or suggestion? Thanks.

Drew Stahling
Cadets 1033

Log on to Autodesk Streamline 6. It installs with the inventor suite, or you can access it at projectpoint.buzzsaw.com/FIRST username is (public) with the ('s , and there is no password. The parts are under FIRST 2006 Competition -> Virtual Kit of Parts.

[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.

[Uberbots]

Originally Posted by Billfred

One week in, and after strategizing the heck out of the game, 1293 has together our Kitbot frame and transmissions, with the gear tooth sensors mounted as well.

This week, the aim is to get Chomp ready for wiring.

(Yes, that would also be the first public mention of our 2006 robot's name.)

dang... we have already got our launch systems going.
bam! 12 feet per second. this launcher is pretty awesome. and EXTREMELY accurate (spray range average of about 5 inches)
unbounded we got the launcher to shoot at a maximum of 25 feet per second. so this thing is dangerously powerfull (we even went and fired it at the principal of the school, and OF COARSE he volunteered)

it really stinks that we havent been able to get our closed loop to work, the sensors seem to like to return null values
and the camera? *shiver*

we have gotten pretty far along as far as planning goes, and we have a separate team of brainiacs (non-programmer/building but smart types) who are contemplating the posible strategies. im hoping for a good competion seaon this year!

(i hope i stayed on topic.... im not really good at that as my english papers would say)

EDIT: hey spiffizzle... keep going on that design. it looks really nice so far.

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.

[Parker]

My team has mocked up a thrower and collecter, but there is still some debate on how to transport the balls into the hopper.

Our kitbot is built and drive train is finalized.