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Unread 06-04-2007, 01:15
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Re: Mechanical/Electrical Off-Season Projects

Building on the robochair idea that I saw at Davis, I would like to build a robotic couch. It would be large, unwieldy, and very impractical, but my school has some groaty old couches that would do the job well.
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Unread 11-04-2007, 17:43
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Re: Mechanical/Electrical Off-Season Projects

1. Redesign our arm for PARC X
2. CMU camera autonomous that works
3. Convert our '07 chassis to mecanums (original design was for mecanum wheels, never went through with it)

Thats all for now, the list will probably get bigger.
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Unread 11-04-2007, 18:05
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Re: Mechanical/Electrical Off-Season Projects

Team 191 will be moving our whole 7700 ft^2 site to a new location this May_June Time frame so that will be our summer project. We will have a fresh start to modernize and organize a more efficient team layout.
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Re: Mechanical/Electrical Off-Season Projects

I am starting out my mentoring career by leading a team of underclassmen to rebuild our completely gutted 2004 chassis/drive system, and then design a 4 bar linkage arm with some sort of cool grabber.

Next year is the first year we will be using EasyC so we are going to program it with that, and then give our electrician a chance to wire it. It will be her first time doing it herself next year.
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Re: Mechanical/Electrical Off-Season Projects

I will also be creating a chair like the one at davis.

Our school has an educational rally this friday and our robot is somewhere between here and atlanta so we hope to have a driving chair by friday.
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Re: Mechanical/Electrical Off-Season Projects

build a chassis out of stock materials with removable/replaceable drive modules. (inspired by team 192)

TKO does nothing but machine machine machine! .... when we only have one machine shop working for us for free.

I want a driving chassis at least before week four next year.
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Re: Mechanical/Electrical Off-Season Projects

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build a chassis out of stock materials with removable/replaceable drive modules. (inspired by team 192)

TKO does nothing but machine machine machine! .... when we only have one machine shop working for us for free.

I want a driving chassis at least before week four next year.
675 had a driving (not controllable, however) chassis by week two or three. Motors, Batteries, Wheels, and Frame = drivable.
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Re: Mechanical/Electrical Off-Season Projects

after seeing the homemade segway at champs, we decided to make one during this summer. It'll hopefully help us with our programming skills and the gyro and also help get the new people practice building
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Re: Mechanical/Electrical Off-Season Projects

179 is gonna start on a real nice cart for next year. Either mecanums or one of those weird drive systems. we got sick fo having to puch that cart so far. And now its gonna be even worse, with our super regional
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Re: Mechanical/Electrical Off-Season Projects

We're going to swap out the drivetrain on either our practice or competition bot for a mechanum drive. Then, to control it, we're going to use a DDR pad for the eight directions and a Guitar Hero controller for speed and the manipulator. Details still need to be worked out, but I think it will be fun to make and a unique driving experience.
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Unread 19-04-2007, 16:08
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Re: Mechanical/Electrical Off-Season Projects

We might work to improve the drive design that we used this year. Though it was much better than it has ever been in years past, our drive can always be improved.

One of our graduating seniors is also working on an electronics notebook to pass on all the information she has learned to current/future members.

We'll also be building a second robot for another team to compete with at the IRI.
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Re: Mechanical/Electrical Off-Season Projects

Not for First, but im planing to build a stirling Sun collector power generator. and a gun that shoots glow sticks into the night sky
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Unread 19-04-2007, 16:53
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Re: Mechanical/Electrical Off-Season Projects

I'm already CADing a crab drive in inventor, so I may steal some ideas from the concept from 114ManualLabor. lol I need to learn autodesk anyways so its a good thing. Once that is done, our team plans on building a crab drive and an omniwheel drive to see which one we like better and possibly have rather crappy arms put on them to compete with our '07 bot to see whether drive train or function if more important. (our '07 bot has a really good arm )
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Unread 19-04-2007, 16:57
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Not for First, but im planing to build a stirling Sun collector power generator. and a gun that shoots glow sticks into the night sky
I know you're sarcastic sometimes... but if the glowstick idea is serious, that is freakin' awesome.
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I know you're sarcastic sometimes... but if the glowstick idea is serious, that is freakin' awesome.
i think it be cool to dress up like aliens and storm a small town in the Midwest armed with what appear to be blasters firing green tracers and "abducting" unwitting country folk.

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