Team 118 Robonauts - Unvieled

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by MasonMM

Looks like something I've seen before. Maybe one of those robots we built back when I was on the team. A shorter stronger one armed sibling i suppose.

And faster. I have reports that this thing goes a full 4 feet per second faster in high gear than Chainzilla did.
Not to mention it has the ability (in low gear I presume) to push 16 batteries! The driving force is practically obscene. Seeing as they've put it through very rigorous tests so far and the DeWalt hasn't failed, after some consideration, I think it might just be able to survive on a single DeWalt transmission.

[Gabe]

1 DeWalt with 4 CIM's and 2 FP's is insane, really pushing the limits. Really says something about the durability of the drill transmissions.

Once again, truly amazing!!!

[Po-ser]

Meh. Looks okay.

Just kidding! If I recall my response to the person who sent this to me over AIM correctly, it was

"[22:22] Me: !!!!!!11!oneone"

I was just happy figuring out how to do a simple CIM-hooked-into-a-Dewalt drive train this year, but WOWza. I hope you guys (1. win, and 2.) assemble either a white paper or just a small report to give the rest of us a glance at how this amazing thing works.

(Although it would be cool if it made cool car sounds too.)

[Bharat Nain]

An engineering marvel in FIRST

[amos229]

Iremember chainzilla from '05' nats. That thing was insane. I can only imagine this beast. sweet video. I love coaxial swerves, they are simply amazing.Good job guys congrats on a great robot

[J Flex 188]

I'd just like to draw attention to some of the comments that have been posted below the YouTube video clip, that is, without giving them much credence. ChiefDelphi is an environment where we can all be exposed to the idea of GP and understanding the different inherent characteristics and qualities of each team, but YouTube cannot be considered in the same light. That being said, I would hope anyone that linked from here to YouTube would not be posting anything there that they would not choose to here.

Also, that's one impressive machine. And thats an understatement!

[Stuart]

well I just showed that to our robot . . the printf statement I got back was "Id let that climb on me all day long".

any way good job guys hope to see this more up close at LSR.

[JaneYoung]

HaHa!
What a great robot!

Lone Star is going to rock!

And with Kris as emcee - it's going to be a blast!

All the best 118 -
Jane

[silicon_ghoti]

Originally Posted by Po-ser

I was just happy figuring out how to do a simple CIM-hooked-into-a-Dewalt drive train this year, but WOWza. I hope you guys (1. win, and 2.) assemble either a white paper or just a small report to give the rest of us a glance at how this amazing thing works.

I whole heartedly agree, that thing (Monster, Beast, Goliath) is stinkin' awesome. It's way to cruel to show it to us and not tell us how it works.
Hope the rest of your season works a beautifully as your robot does.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Gabe

1 DeWalt with 4 CIM's and 2 FP's is insane, really pushing the limits. Really says something about the durability of the drill transmissions.

Once again, truly amazing!!!

My guess is they did some hardening of the internals, or other processes. If those are stock, that's a lot of torque to be handling, and quite impressive.

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by Cory

My guess is they did some hardening of the internals, or other processes. If those are stock, that's a lot of torque to be handling, and quite impressive.

Maybe they even remade the gears out of stronger materials... I definitely wouldn't put it past them...

[Alex Cormier]

The only down fall of this beast i see, is how will you guys be able to remove spoilers and replace them on the rack?

[AdamHeard]

It looks like they could bran them from the top, and carry them perpendicular to the floor and score them on another.

[Andrew Blair]

Originally Posted by Cory

My guess is they did some hardening of the internals, or other processes. If those are stock, that's a lot of torque to be handling, and quite impressive.

Ha, those Dewalt gears are already really hard. A local machinist who helped us would not even use his carbide tooling on them- he ran them through a wire EDM- as Dr. Joe suggested. The whole box is made of hard, hard, hard powdered metal. Actually, if all the tolerances on the input gears are as good as the real drill (which I'm sure they are with 118), I would feel moderately safe with four motors. But six? Not real keen on that one, but we'll see I guess! I think they probably know what they're doing!

[KingBK]

the one thing i'm wondering is how is it hooked up to the wheels? cause with the rules you won't have enough motors to have 2 of those things.