Team 869's Custom Controller

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Rohit,
I know that this will not be a problem during competition since you will be using an IFI radio for the OI but the radios actually have an internal antenna that runs down the left side of the modem in your picture. Mounting this against a metal panel usually has a detrimiental affect on RF. the same goes for the RC side as well.

[rohit]

hmm.. ok. I have no clue what that means but ill show your post to the electrical person

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by rohit

hmm.. ok. I have no clue what that means but ill show your post to the electrical person

What he means is that you have your OI radio modem mounted to what appears to be a metal plate. This metal plate is in between the OI modem and the robot, and will interfere with the communication. What he's suggesting is that you mount the modem so that it's above the metal or otherwise unattached to it. The silver antenna on the outside of the modem isn't the only one - there's also one inside the black case which is why just having the external antenna above the metal plate isn't good enough.

[Pavan Dave]

Originally Posted by Rapt0r9

That is a very nice board. We were thinking of doing something like that this year, but were short on time. The guys who built ours decided that style was better than practicality, so they built it our of 80/20 and covered that with diamond plate. Although this year it should be slightly lighter because we have eliminated two joysticks and replaced them with the box, but our drivers hate carrying it.

That is nothing. I will see if i can post a picture of my team's OI. It is built from ITEM and Lexan and weights from ten to twenty pounds. The drivers only saw ours for a brief period of time and started complaining lol. I just hope they don't drop it when they actually have to pick it up on game day.

Pavan.

[pyrr101]

Our contols were at one time too large to use on the field corectly, since there was not long enough cable between the zip ties and out competition port on the fields. We ended up haveing to remove 6" off each side to make it work. The box was so large it required a hing to make it easier to carry and wheels since it was 25 lbs. It was made out of item, and lexan with our joysticks top mounted, I will try to get a picture on her soon.