pic: SPAM's 2006 robot

[buss]

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[tiffany34990]

first off i have to say: nice faces to the mentors... hee hee

hmm so a turet... when i leave you guys use a turet...what's w/ that?!

well it looks pretty cool. i can't wait to look up close and all. same chassie as last year i see.

and can i say please clean the pit. looks a bit messy.

nice job to the team. see ya soon. and good lucky!

ooo and what's the name?! you all always come up w/ something interesting.

[killerofkiller]

shame you can't see me on the other end of the turret catching the balls.. man they have a powerful kick

[Tim Arnold]

A few questions:

1. How does it load? Off the ground only or can humans load?

2. How well does your camera work? At 179's scrimmage we kept loosing track on the target and finding their bright green shirts. We have almost completely ditched the camera since.

3. Speaking of the scrimmage, what happened to prevent you guys from coming? Did you get it fixed?

4. How many balls can you hold? Looks like less than 10 or so...

5. Have you guys been pulling all-nighters recently? No one looks happy in the picture and judging by the lighting it looks rather late.

6. killerofkiller says that the balls have a kick... have you checked the speed to be within limits?

7. Can we see a video?

Thanks for posting up a picture of your bot though. I was really curious to see what you guys would turn out this year! Shame you couldn't make it to the scrimmage though.

[miketwalker]

I was hoping the evil genius would be in a dark corner somewhere programming an auto-tracking turret this year. I can't wait to see it work this year auto-firing. Great job to Eric, his programmers, and the build team.

[techtiger1]

I really like it. I think all my questions were covered in the above questions. So with that can't wait to see it in action at UCF. Good luck to 180, Go SPAM!

Incredible job,
Drew

[EricS-Team180]

1. How does it load? Off the ground only or can humans load?
-> not loaded from ground

2. How well does your camera work? At 179's scrimmage we kept loosing track on the target and finding their bright green shirts. We have almost completely ditched the camera since.
--> we'll be dinking with the camera 'till the last match at Nationals All our auto code has manual back-up. Frankly, our experience in the gym has been that if you're within 15ft, you have hopes of locking on.

3. Speaking of the scrimmage, what happened to prevent you guys from coming? Did you get it fixed?
--> wanted to get there to give our drivers training, but just had too many little (and big) things to get working

4. How many balls can you hold? Looks like less than 10 or so...
--> capacity is 10...in theory

5. Have you guys been pulling all-nighters recently? No one looks happy in the picture and judging by the lighting it looks rather late.
--> just a typical 6th week Sunday afternoon in the SPAM pit Note frowns on mentor faces We reserve the all-nighter for tonight <HA!>

6. killerofkiller says that the balls have a kick... have you checked the speed to be within limits?
--> built a speed gate with two photo-detectors (borrrowed 179's). Rich Soviero (teacher from Jensen Beach) rigged a square wave frequency generator and bread board counter. We measured in the 10-11 m/sec range. We now have a LabView version working. Maybe we can haul the rig along to UCF.

7. Can we see a video?
--> wish I could see a video!


Mike: Josh is the "evil genius programmer" this year. I've worked with him on controllers (like PID and bang-bang controls), but he has wrested control (pun intended) of the laptop from me! ...as he should! That makes me feel like I'm doing my job. It gave me the chance to bring some other students along, who have little or no exposure to programming (in c) and controls (in general). Austin headed up a crew to use labview to build a speed gate.


what's that Phil Collins song??? ....one more night...just one more night

[Swampdude]

Hey nice work guys! I have an idea, bring that bad boy over tonight and we'll work em over till 1ish???? I'm bringing lots of caffiene for the drivers. I wanna see this thing shoot on the run
PS bring balls, ours have been converted to confetti.

[robot180]

You will all notice a few changes this year. For example, our robot will be more colorful. I miss the old metal look, but we used that blue and red material. Also, while using the same design for the drive train and chassis as last year, this robot works better in third gear, which we avoided last year. WATCH OUT!

It does climb the ramp without falling over.

Everyone does look unhappy there. They were not paying attention to the process of shooting balls as much as trying to get other things to work. So they were not unhappy about how it shoots balls, but more about other things, like the conveyor system. Balls were jamming at the bend on some occassions. We found a way to unjam it, by reversing one conveyor.


Tiff, I am sorry about the mess in the pit. We did clean up a little though. Someone finally took the trash out and vacuumed. We even started a cleaning campaign to stop work and have everyone go around cleaning for five minutes. The place was almost spotless after that.

[robot180]

More build season pics here. http://www.spamrobotics.com/gallery2/build06

[Stephen Kowski]

http://www.spamrobotics.com/gallery2..._and_gearboxes

what are those linkages from the servo to the dewalt?....they almost look like mini gas shocks or something