crunch time

[techtiger1]

Our robot is coming along nicely. Where getting things together and should be up and driving around by Saturday for Swamp thing scrimmage or so my team hopes. Custom making wheels, chassis and gearbox is a lot to do in 6 weeks . Anyway 1251 reporting we should be coming up with the final product right around the corner. Can't wait can ya ?

Good luck,
Drew

[sanddrag]

Originally Posted by techtiger1

Custom making wheels, chassis and gearbox is a lot to do in 6 weeks

Yeah, I recently discovered that one. Well, we are doing custom gearbox and chassis and wheel hubs. We always have, but this year we are way behind.

So my answer to "how far is your robot" is probably still "what robot?"

We have a frame welded. We have lots of shooter and turret parts machined, we have lots (but not all) gearbox parts machined. And we have a conveyor prototype and a basket prototype. The basket, delivery system, and conveyor have not started real production yet. Hopefully we'll finish gearboxes tomorrow. We'll see. We have nothing assembled yet for the real thing except our welded frame.

[Steve S.]

we are still working on our ball collecting mechanism....the launcher is done (i know, wrong order right?) So all we have is a chassis and the elctronics board done.... *sigh* This is going to be a long week

[dtengineering]

We have the frame done, with gears and wheels mounted. The electronics pretty much done (might need to add a Victor and a spike or two). The shooter/turret works. The loader works (that was fixed today... belt problems are no more). Still have to get the ball picker-upper running, add some "armour" and bumpers.

Fortunately we are under weight... well under weight... so far. May even add a pneumatics system for ballast.

Jason

[Nuttyman54]

we can drive...with some problems (the shifters don't work quite right)
the hopper is slated for completion tomorrow, and the launcher should be done by thursday (we hope)

[sanddrag]

Originally Posted by Nuttyman54

(the shifters don't work quite right)

What shifters? Did somebody say shifters? Do we have pictures of these? I may be able to offer advice if you describe the problem.

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

What shifters? Did somebody say shifters? Do we have pictures of these? I may be able to offer advice if you describe the problem.

we built team 33's 2004 transmission from their excellent white paper. It runs great, and the problem is in the code (they don't shift simultaneously) we're fixing it with a new pneumatics setup

[Andrew Blair]

I suppose we're doing alright. Ball collection and shooter feed done, elcetronics done, shooter 90% done, code, probably done (without autonomous), but the turret and hopper are not even started. Frustration=1.

[ida_noeman]

Originally Posted by Andrew Blaircode

code, probably done (without autonomous). Frustration=1.

Autonomous could possibly be the hardest part!

[KTorak]

Mechanically....we're almost done minus a few things that are still "quick fixes", some tweaking of components, and some sensors and the like we need to add. As for programing, the robot runs, but we still have some sensors and the like to program and autonomous to work on. I'd say we are overall around 90% done (and doing well wieght wise).

[Andrew Blair]

Originally Posted by ida_noeman

Autonomous could possibly be the hardest part!

Eh, I hope not. Most of our operation should be automatic, so its (for the most part), just moving the functions. Again, I hope!

[Jonathan Norris]

Mechanically we are 95% done, drove the robot today and picked up 20+ balls flawlessly (look for video tonight), all conveyor belts are done, cannon is 75-80% built, should be on the robot tomorrow. Tested the robot for the first time tonight, found a few things to fix, but as I said the robot picked up the balls wonderfully. Code and autonomous is a work in progress though.

[Greg Marra]

We are this far from completion:

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[Chriszuma]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Yeah, I recently discovered that one. Well, we are doing custom gearbox and chassis and wheel hubs. We always have, but this year we are way behind.

So my answer to "how far is your robot" is probably still "what robot?"

We have a frame welded. We have lots of shooter and turret parts machined, we have lots (but not all) gearbox parts machined. And we have a conveyor prototype and a basket prototype. The basket, delivery system, and conveyor have not started real production yet. Hopefully we'll finish gearboxes tomorrow. We'll see. We have nothing assembled yet for the real thing except our welded frame.

Yeah, we are in exactly the same situation. A whole bunch of prototypes and bar-napkin-scribbles, not a whole lot of robot. Fortunately though, the operator interface and electronics board are done (they were my job), and the chassis is driveable. We can be a very effective waterbug if we don't accomplish anything this week.

EDIT: This is my 128th post! That's 10,000,000 in binary!

[IraJason]

I am proud to say that Team 1712's robot is in full operating condition. Everything mechanical and electrical wise is finished and pretty much final, and we are currently in the testing and practicing stage. There are a few things that came up that we have to tweak a little bit, and i'm sure that a few more are going to come up before ship, but it doesn't look like we're going to have to go into panic mode to get the bot finished. A little code optimization and mechanical tweaks here and there and we should have our pretty much final robot and code.