Highland Rookie Team 2603's Robot

[ComradeNikolai]

We were very pleased to get Fluffy done this year, especially with the capability to hurdle. Everything worked when we shipped it, except our IR mysteriously stopped working, then one LED was flashing and it wouldn't accept signals... but we can troubleshoot that at the first competition.

Fluffy taking the ball off the overpass.


A side view of Fluffy.


Fluffy faithfully carrying the ball.


And last, our electrical board, of which we are proud.

[burkey_turkey]

Nice board! How much grip are you getting from your holder? How is it actuated(motors, pnumatics?)

[ComradeNikolai]

Thanks; that board was organized largely by one of our mentors (teacher's brother-in-law), which helped significantly.
Our claw is actuated by pneumatic, and we're getting very good gripping strength. Unless we jerk the arm up and down significantly, we don't lose the ball until our fuse on our compressor blows (note to self: replace that at the first competition.) On a side note, our arm is raised and lowered by a winch created from a window motor (I think, I'm a programmer) from the KoP, with an aluminium drum attached to it and 1/8 inch steel cable.

[Akash Rastogi]

that's a sweet robot. better than a few veteran robots Good luck guys

[Vince lau]

nice robot for a rookie team, and the wiring is very neat, good job. and good luck this season

[zivo123]

nice robot and absaloutly amazing E-board for a rookie team!
but how can we respect a robot named fluffy?

[ComradeNikolai]

Its real name is Sting (mascot is a hornet), but we didn't like it, so we renamed it. Fluffy is actually the name of a program I made, long story, but it made my programming teacher fear opening stuff I send him.

[GaryVoshol]

Nice looking rookie robot - heck, nice looking robot for any team not in the "powerhouse stratusphere" level of super teams.

Does your winch pull the lift back down as well as up? There have been problems in the past where gravity was not enough to overcome binding forces in the tower.

Good luck at Buckeye. BTW, you might want to revise your location so others know which "Highland" you're from - there's lots of them across the US.