179 Hurdling video

[Swampdude]

Here it is - The battery was pretty dead, but I think you can see in this video, chassis speed is not very important. There's a number of control changes to be made which will speed this process up, but he's doing good.

[hipsterjr]

I counted 5 hurdles in 2min (not counting knocking the TB down). Very nice. This should be around the bench-mark for most efficient hurdlers. Can't wait to see you guys in Florida

[Sunshine]

Nice job.
Great concept
Picks up the ball quick
What's your speed around the track?

[technoL]

Nicely done. Can't wait to see it at UCF!

[paulgerr]

Amazing design there. The speed at which it gets the ball over is fantastic.

Just curious though, how efficient is it at getting the ball off the overpass initially (either in Hybrid mode or Player-Controlled mode)?

[Swampdude]

Originally Posted by Sunshine

Nice job.
Great concept
Picks up the ball quick
What's your speed around the track?

Thanks, Well the bot can go 10.5, but he's running about 3/4 speed there I guess. The battery was dead, and he doesn't punch it on the straights. Our field perimeters are inset 2' on the sides and 5' on the ends. But the barrier is full length. There's just not enough room to go faster than 10'/s from what I'm seeing.

[James1902]

on a scale of 1-awesome it's pretty awesome well done, looking forward to ucf

[s_forbes]

Very cool! Be sure to watch the contact on the downside of the hurdle; I think some of those may not have counted during a real competition.

[Uberbots]

Originally Posted by hipsterjr

I counted 5 hurdles in 2min (not counting knocking the TB down). Very nice. This should be around the bench-mark for most efficient hurdlers. Can't wait to see you guys in Florida

Well i guess we are all set then (=


great machine, it really does look like a swamp thing. You sure do have a lot of steps to hurdling.

[R.C.]

so your using a ram to lift the ball up and down, probably a 2inch bore ram with 12 inches of stroke. Also we are using the wheels as a grabber also

[dtengineering]

I'm having trouble getting the video to play, but would very much like to see it. Any chance of cross-posting it to youtube?

Jason

[Matt_Kaplan1902]

Another quality machine from swampthing, congrats guys. Can't wait for the Florida regional.

[Barry Bonzack]

I always love 179's robots year after year. I was expecting an arm design similar to your 2004 robot, and a speed faster than 2005 swampthing. I must say your hurdler is very effective, and it is excellent your team is able to do driver practice for another week. Have they been able to put the ball up on the overpass yet for 12 points? How long does it take them to do it?

[neoshaakti]

nice machine. How exactly are u projecting the ball over the overpass? are you just using the wheels to propel it outward? I couldnt really see the back of the claw at work

[Swampdude]

Originally Posted by Barry Bonzack

I always love 179's robots year after year. I was expecting an arm design similar to your 2004 robot, and a speed faster than 2005 swampthing. I must say your hurdler is very effective, and it is excellent your team is able to do driver practice for another week. Have they been able to put the ball up on the overpass yet for 12 points? How long does it take them to do it?

- Hi Barry,
Yep we've set balls up there, also caught them if pushed off to do the "maintain posession" thing. It basically takes just as long to set it as it does to keep pushing it over. Actually the way its doing it now is not going to be the final method But this is good training and demonstrates to others what arm hurdling will probably look like. I think we're going to speed this up to get maybe 1 or 2 more hurdles in in a 2 minute period, unencumbered that is....

- I don't have a youtube account, are you still having a problem viewing it?

- right now the wheel is just rolling the ball up and the arm pushes it the rest of the way. Later we will hold the ball at a higher elevation and thump it against the overpass at speed to bounce it over.

- I see that some of those didn't count, which is nice to have a week of drive practice.