Team 2415: We Suck...

[martin417]

Originally Posted by neutrino15

Wait, are you saying that your bot shoots the ball out of the vacuum funnel? Please explain!

We are using vacuum to ACQUIRE and to HOLD the ball. We are also using pneumatics to SHOOT the ball, all through one of these FUNNELS.

[RMS11]

How do you post pictures? The only way I see is to post them from an internet link. I have pictures of our bot but only on my computer. Ian, I sent you the pictures if you can post them.

[Ian G]

Originally Posted by RMS11

How do you post pictures? The only way I see is to post them from an internet link. I have pictures of our bot but only on my computer. Ian, I sent you the pictures if you can post them.

When I post pictures, I host them on a site like Photobucket or Google Picasa Web Albums.

That said, here they are:

Our robot in the starting position.

Here is our new control system for the arm. We have 3 preset positions for our arm. A cancel button incase something goes wrong(not the code). We also have a manual override for finessing the suction cup. A switch for the vacuum of course. And we also have disable and auto switches for testing.

[Waiakea12]

That's a creepy amount of posts...
Well, don't get discouraged! Oh, and that vacuume idea is cool.

hahaha I love the "SUCK!!!" button

[santosh]

Hey team 1771, I saw your robot at scrimmage today and it was awesome. The way shoot the ball is ingenious. AWESOME Robot.

[sdcantrell56]

Thank you Santosh. That scrimmage was really awesome...Im just glad everything has come together. We still have a bunch of programming to make it faster and easier to drive but its working well. Im glad we werent the only sucker. You guys looked really good especially for a rookie bot. See you at Peachtree!!

[jumpe1990]

Wow that is a really awesome design. Only thing is it looks slow...? And how easily can the ball be grabbed. Like let's say you were jostled as you were trying to pick up the ball, would you be able to grab it while being messed with?

[santosh]

Thanks team 1771, that shooter sucker thing was so cool looking and well implemented.
jumpe1990, Thanks! The robot can pick up the ball very easily once we get locked on. We just need to get some driver practice in. at scrimmage today we were able to get about 3 in one match. Hopefully we can get that number up to about 4 or 5 in the next couple of days. I think that we are able to pick it up while being messed with but we haven't really experienced too much of that. Also we sped up the arm about a second or two.

[Straberrie]

WOAh! Thats cool! Great design! Hoping to see it soon in real life action! Good luck!

( lol the " we suck" in the title... ye delete that! lol)

[rcflyer620]

Have you tried it with an under-inflated ball? My guess is the inflation of the balls will not be consistent and a softer ball will have more sag in the material.
Still an awesome idea! Good luck!