Team 118 Robonauts - Unvieled

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by 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.

It's a coaxial swerve drive (search CDmedia for pictures). Essentially, the one gearbox powers all 4 wheels, and separate motors turn the swerve modules (in pairs of two)

[T3_1565]

holy.............................................. ...
crap.............................................. ...
thats............................................. ...
intense........................................... ..

[horoponhorr]

Impressive! I don't really think I've seen anything like that before....

I bet that thing really eviscerates batteries.

[zander_108]

well, judging by the pictures, it looks like there is only space for one more motor to turn the wheels.. this makes me wonder what would have been your choice seeing as you have a minibike motor powering the arm... hmm..

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by zander_108

well, judging by the pictures, it looks like there is only space for one more motor to turn the wheels.. this makes me wonder what would have been your choice seeing as you have a minibike motor powering the arm... hmm..

globes or banebots are my guess

[David Cross]

Can I get that Inventor model?
It's really good and I wanna make it better.

[Dylan]

WOW!

Very impressive power, hope we get a chance to compete at nationals.

[Cyberguy34000]

holy...

crap...

Congratulations on this amazing achievement, and with almost 3 weeks to spare as well! I'm actually kind of glad that you aren't attending our regional this year, you'd smoke us just like you did in '05 with chainzilla. I do hope to see this thing up close at championships.

Spectacular work guys!

[Dominicano0519]

can you say nationals?

how fast does that thing go
and how much torque because i think i saw it bulldozing eight 12v batteries

anyway great job guys
congratulations

[cam1031]

Stunned

[AJ R]

Originally Posted by Dominicano0519

can you say nationals?

how fast does that thing go
and how much torque because i think i saw it bulldozing eight 12v batteries

anyway great job guys
congratulations

There are 16 batteries with 8 on top and 8 under so they were pushing around 200 pounds!

[Adamskiy]

Very impressive. Good luck, and in the event that we both reach nationals and are placed in the same division, I hope that we do not get matched against you



P.S. - If I'm not mistaken, one of your adult mentors, Rob Burridge, used to be one of our mentors before moving to work for NASA.

[Dan Zollman]

What is the robot's top speed?

[zander_108]

wait a second.. im not so sure how this thing is working..

I mean, think about it...
It has 6 motors powering the wheels
coaxial swerve drive (requiring 2 motors)
a turret (requiring one motor)
and a telescoping arm (requiring another motor)

thats a total of 10

hmm, theres something either against the rules here, or even more amazing than we origionally thought!

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by zander_108

wait a second.. im not so sure how this thing is working..

I mean, think about it...
It has 6 motors powering the wheels
coaxial swerve drive (requiring 2 motors)
a turret (requiring one motor)
and a telescoping arm (requiring another motor)

thats a total of 10

hmm, theres something either against the rules here, or even more amazing than we origionally thought!

What's against the rules about using 10 motors?