She's ALIVE!!!

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Posted by Andy Baker.

Engineer on team #45, TechnoKats, from Kokomo High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 2/14/2000 11:11 PM MST


In Reply to: She's ALIVE!!! posted by Joe Johnson on 2/13/2000 11:51 AM MST:



OK, since you're all being so giving out there, here's what team 45's bot can do so far.

The performance of our drive base is very encouraging. The expectation and hope of getting our arm operational is kinda taxing... but we're not quite to the panic stage yet.

We've been tweaking our drive base for a week. It's fast at a max speed of 12 fps... from start position to the limbo bar in 2.8 seconds. BUT our traction is lacking. We are getting use to spinning wheels again, compared to last year's cleats o' terror.

The arm-ball collecting chute was married with the base on Sunday, but we have not powered it up yet. We hope to hold many balls also, but we are behind on testing and operating the ball collection system.

I'm wondering if we will be continually driving out from under our arm... we shall see soon.

Our 'bots nickname should be the extrusion-mobile for all of the t-slot extrusions that we are using. The good thing is that this fastening technique is adjustable... the bad thing is that this fastening technique is adjustable. We shall see if this adjustability is a blessing or a curse.

Keep the candles burning at both ends,
Andy