pic: 179 USS Swamp Lobsta

[Swampdude]

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[Cody Carey]

I spy corrugated lexan! We are considering using this stuff after seeing it on team 173 R.A.G.E.'s hopper last year. It looks to be holding up well, but are there any specific complaints about it?

The robot looks beautiful!

[Zoheb N]

that is a pretty sweet ramp! Looks like you guys are just going to lift a robot using your ramp.

[Dan Zollman]

Nice job with the manipulator. It looks very easy to pick up and score the ringers.

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by Cody Carey

I spy corrugated lexan! We are considering using this stuff after seeing it on team 173 R.A.G.E.'s hopper last year. It looks to be holding up well, but are there any specific complaints about it?

The robot looks beautiful!

it's quite good stuff, 1126 has been using it for a few years now.

the thing i don't get is the position of the inside honeycombs, i did a few tests with it recently and noticed it's a lot stronger with the honeycomb innerads perpindicular to the support rails underneath. so what was the choice of placement?

[AdamHeard]

Do you have any vids of your old robots driving onto it?

[Tim Arnold]

I guess its just me as nobody else has complained, but I cannot open the above movie (07bot.avi) in Windows Media Player, Nero Showtime, or even VLC, which opens *everything*.

I can see the thumbnail in windows explorer, but when I open it it won't even begin to play. Is this problem only with me, or has nobody else tried to watch?

[Gabe]

Originally Posted by Tim Arnold

I guess its just me as nobody else has complained, but I cannot open the above movie (07bot.avi) in Windows Media Player, Nero Showtime, or even VLC, which opens *everything*.

I can see the thumbnail in windows explorer, but when I open it it won't even begin to play. Is this problem only with me, or has nobody else tried to watch?

Works fine for me... I can even go full screen (very pixilated). It should be a regular .avi playing on Windows Media Player.

[Tim Arnold]

Originally Posted by Gabe

Works fine for me... I can even go full screen (very pixilated). It should be a regular .avi playing on Windows Media Player.

Hmm. I tried Windows Media Player again, and this time it opens, but it crashes around 8 seconds consistantly. Quite odd... maybe I just need to reboot :/


EDIT: Nevermind, it worked in Nero Showtime... I guess my comp is on the fritz

[Donut]

Nice video of it scoring! Looks to be a good machine. Are all of the ramp supports on casters, since you were moving with it delpoyed?

[JBotAlan]

Originally Posted by Tim Arnold

I guess its just me as nobody else has complained, but I cannot open the above movie (07bot.avi) in Windows Media Player, Nero Showtime, or even VLC, which opens *everything*.

I can see the thumbnail in windows explorer, but when I open it it won't even begin to play. Is this problem only with me, or has nobody else tried to watch?

Yeah, Winamp opened it, and it looked fine for most of the way, then when it had something like 5 seconds left, Winamp "caused a serious error"...and the video looked awful about halfway through, like there were no keyframes anywhere...

Oh well.

Nice manipulator (why does that sound vaguely dirty?)

JBot

[jcatt]

The problem that is affecting some people is that the video is encoded with Divx. If you don;t have the Divx Codec installed then you wont be able to play it. You can download the codec at Http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/download/index.php

[MattLi]

How much does it weigh?

[Swampdude]

- That paneling works good for something off the shelf thats strong and light
- It needs to be supported min every 8" from an edge and the supports are in the axial direction of the ramp, not so much the sides
- there are rounded nylon end caps on all the floor contacting points
- right now we're about 5lbs over weight. But we have 2 of the large cims with 2 small cims installed currently. If we do not find ample weight savings in some other places, we may go back to the 2 smaller cims in each AM shifter.
- I do not have video of our other bots driving on it, however we did do that, and it worked great with our crappy wooden programming bot (woody). Also we placed 2 bots on top of it. I will get video of the deployment and 2 bots riding up it this week though, and post that.

I have learned that building a ramp is much harder than it seems. I wanted to build an arm and then have a simple ramp off the end but I couldn't get around the structural requirements needed to have a ramp that could last the rigors of 20+ competition matches.

Thanks for the compliments!

[AdamHeard]

[quote=Swampdude;572328]
- right now we're about 5lbs over weight. But we have 2 of the large cims with 2 small cims installed currently. If we do not find ample weight savings in some other places, we may go back to the 2 smaller cims in each AM shifter.

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Why not put two small cims each to begin with? The Big ones have less power and weigh a lot more. Are you using the small Cims somewhere else?