pic: ThunderChickens 2008 Robot View 1

[Paul Copioli]

This is team 217's 2008 Robot. Specifications are:

Drive:

4 CIM motors with AndyMark shifting guts custom packaged within our sheet metal base. Top speed approximately 17 fps.

Sheet metal components designed and assembled by ThunderChicken students and engineering mentors in SolidWorks, but manufactured by team 148.

Shuttle:

Linear slides with 27 inches of travel using globe motor and cable with a 3 inch pulley.

Arm:

2 Fisher price motors through AndyMark AM Planetary and custom gearbox utilizing the AM super shifter parts with the total gear ratio of 1000:1. The arm has the ability to shift into neutral.

Grabber:

1" PVC (of course) utilizing an 8" stroke 1 1/2" bore cylinder for the open and close.

The lovely 80" rule:

We have obeyed every aspect of the 80" rule. It is impossible for our robot to violate the 80" rule (if we are not tipped over). Our goal was to have the inspection checklist item that asks if the robot can extend past 80" be filled in as "no" so the refs will never have to make a judgment call.

Our auton video is linked here: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...523#post703523