pic: Lift this

[Greg Needel]

can you lift if you only have 1 robot on your platforms?

[Wayne Doenges]

can you lift if you only have 1 robot on your platforms?

Yes we can, go to the 'Robot Showcase' and see the Youtube videos. It's under 'Team THRUST (1501) 2007 robot

[s_forbes]

Awesome frame! Is it made of steel by any chance?

[Wayne Doenges]

The whole frame is welded chrome moly tubing. Very strong and very light.
We are using two monocoqued wings. The wings are 17 pounds each and will easily support 200+ pounds with very little flex.

[roboticsguy1988]

Originally Posted by Wayne Doenges

The whole frame is welded chrome moly. Very strong and very light.
We are using two monocoqued wings. The wings are 17 pounds each and will easily support 200+ pounds with very little flex.

Correction that is 300+...

[Curt Henderson]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrpb4zFe3j0

It's not one robot but, well you'll see the point.

[Stu Bloom]

Originally Posted by Wayne Doenges

The whole frame is welded chrome moly tubing. Very strong and very light.
We are using two monocoqued wings. The wings are 17 pounds each and will easily support 200+ pounds with very little flex.

I assume the tubing is donated ... but what are you claiming for its value. That stuff aint cheap!!

[waiakea11]

lol looks cool....do the two guys wiegh up to the same ammount as a bot? or did you guys just do that for fun?

[cooker52]

They wiehg more and we did pretty much do that for fun.

[GIR]

That's some very slick engineering folks. Huge kudos to your team!

[FunkyRatDemon]

You think that stuffs expensive...we have Carbon Fiber panels! (2 of, and quadruple layered at 1 x 1 yard each)
and were not using them!

[Adela]

oh my WOW, thats amazing.
any chance you'd explain to me how it works?

[d.courtney]

Originally Posted by FunkyRatDemon

You think that stuffs expensive...we have Carbon Fiber panels! (2 of, and quadruple layered at 1 x 1 yard each)
and were not using them!

That isn't expensive at all if you make it yourself, we made some carbon fiber peices for our manipulator (as to make it more durable) and it wasn't that costly.

[cooker52]

The wings(a.k.a. the ramps) will start folded up next to the main structure. When it comes to the end of the game, we will release these latches that will drop the wings and allow robots to climb on. When they are ready, we will lift the wings and robots with a couple of air cylinders. We have tried lift our two robots from the last two years and it works almost flaulesly.

[Wayne Doenges]

lol looks cool....do the two guys wiegh up to the same ammount as a bot? or did you guys just do that for fun?

The mentor on the right weighs 190 pounds and the student weighs 160 ish.
We can lift two max weight robots to a height of 12" in 4 seconds
We use two, 12" stroke, cylinders and two, 100 pound rated, gas struts.