Your Best Robot

[Bill Gold]

Originally Posted by Nuttyman54

I remember seeing video of this during at WRRF workshop before my first season on a team. I've been looking for that video ever since. If anyone knows where I can find said video, please PM me. That robot was awesome

That was probably from one of my presentations. I've got the videos on this computer, too. I'll try to find it and put it up somewhere if Cory doesn't beat me to it.

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Here's a link to one video of that robot...

http://s125.photobucket.com/albums/p...&current=1.flv

If you remember any other videos from my presentations that you haven't been able to find shoot me a PM and I can send them to you or send you a copy of the presentation itself. I'm like a packrat, and keep everything I do related to FIRST, even though I'm not involved anymore.
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My favorite robot to work on was my 2003 robot. It was a 6-motor swerve drive (the first non-coaxially driven swerve on the west coast) using Drill and CIM motors to drive the wheels and the two Globe motors to rotate the modules in sets of 2. It was designed by a 19 year old non-engineering student, a 19 year old philosophy major, a 19 year old civil engineering major, and a 17 year old high school student. There are lots of pictures floating around of it, but if you're unable to find any let me know and I'll find them for you.

[Andy A.]

Originally Posted by Bill Gold

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Here's a link to one video of that robot...

http://s125.photobucket.com/albums/p...&current=1.flv

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*sigh* That video was always a disappointment to me. The potentiometer on our control board used to ramp up the roller speed had failed and as a result we missed the last few balls as the rollers bogged down and stalled. It is, so far as I know, the most widely distributed clip of us running a line, and we didn't even get them all!

Oh well. Better then the first few clips of us running a line. Until we learned to properly ramp up the roller speed, balls would just shoot straight up 15 feet and out of the hopper. It was impressive, but useless. My co-driver and I had plotted to do it intentionally during our first practice match with out telling anyone, but decided against it at the last second. The scoring table was right next to the field and we didn't want to bombard them on our first day out.

-Andy A.

[Starke]

I would say that the best robot out of the G.R.R. plant is the 2004 robot. "Roxanne" was a great design that accomplished the game task with proficiency. It went undefeated at the Buckeye Regional that year, and made it on the Einstein Field at The Championship Event. There is a picture of her attached. You can see a great video of her in a match here.

[JudyVandy]

Well, I go back as far as the team does, and, I do remember most of them.

Chuck's best was probably PI, the 1999 'bot, which wound up a Championship Finalist. It's followed closely, in my opinion by the 2007 version and the 2002 version. Chuck XI (2007) won the Philly Regional, as a defensive bot and has an awsome drive train that can go anywhere we want it to go. We didn't score many points, but we sure kept our opponents from scoring. Chuck and 'Moose' of 2002 also were great robots and won us an engineering award in NJ that year. Yes, I did say 2 robots. Moose was independently controlled so he could return to our home zone while still connected to Chuck.