25's Completed Field Setup

[JulieB]

K'nex are the BEST awesome job guys

[George A.]

Two questions to the fine folks on 25...is this to scale? And what did you use to suspend the spider legs? Looks like string, but I'm not sure.

[Kristian Calhoun]

Here is a link to the first image, since the original link is broken.

Originally Posted by M.O.R.T.

Two questions to the fine folks on 25...is this to scale? And what did you use to suspend the spider legs? Looks like string, but I'm not sure.

The field is not to exact scale. We first built the rack, and then estimated and sized the rest of the field accordingly. String was used to suspend the spider legs, with some rainbow string serving as the center "chain". The rack is also built so that it can move within the scaled radius of 3 feet.

[Alexa Stott]

Originally Posted by M.O.R.T.

Two questions to the fine folks on 25...is this to scale? And what did you use to suspend the spider legs? Looks like string, but I'm not sure.

Note the driver and human player-they are to scale!

[Nick 568]

Haha, we did the same except with legos. We even had some people having timed practice games to develop strategy and such.

[Pavan Dave]

I think this is most practical with VEX. I think that VEX is great for the purpose of scaleing and prototyping before time, effort, and money is gone into making a robot.

Pavan.

[Alexa Stott]

Originally Posted by Pavan

I think this is most practical with VEX. I think that VEX is great for the purpose of scaleing and prototyping before time, effort, and money is gone into making a robot.

Pavan.

You guys need to stop taking this so seriously. We were trying to figure out how the rack actually moved and got a bit carried away. It was just something fun that we did while strategizing and such; it was meant as a joke.

[smurfgirl]

That's hilarious. At first I thought you had actually built the real field and I'm pretty sure my jaw dropped in shock.

[Katy]

That is awesome! Not only is that hilarious but it is a wonderful way to plan out team strategy! Thumbs up guys!

[Andrewpbhs]

hahaha, very nice!

Helped some of our lesser talented members visualize the field better...now to break out the legos... ^^

[Wayne C.]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Man, the driver and human player on 25 are UGLY

not as bad as the real thing though....

[Wayne C.]

the next mock up is made in Tinker Toys and the playing pieces are Krispy Kreme donuts

[StephLee]

Originally Posted by Wayne C.

the next mock up is made in Tinker Toys and the playing pieces are Krispy Kreme donuts

We're supposedly playing around with different manipulator designs at our meeting tonight using donuts and straws.

[mizscience]

wow, that is very cute. Goo job guys!

[KitKat89]

That's fantastic, not what I was expecting, but fabulous none the less.