Coolest thing on your bot??

[Ericgehrken]

I remember seeing that coaching 195 that match.

[BT987]

the worm gears to raise the arm or.....the dong!

[techtiger1]

I would have to say besides our drivesystem, it would defintely be the kicker underneath the claw that we used to kick the ball foward over the overpass, it was shaped like a high heel and was just a comical/cool looking part of the robot.

[T3_1565]

our linkage drive! Pretty much for how new of a system it is, it kept up with everyone on the field (it even matched 1114 for some of the time )


I love our linkage!!

[Ryan Dognaux]

Our Team.

[Cynette]

Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux

Our Team.

That is cool! What a fun idea!

[seanl]

our boot to kick the ball around.

[wilsonmw04]

For us, it has to be the ball gripper, or more to the point, What folks thought it was before they saw it in action. Leaf blower with was best guess :-)

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/30275

Quick vid of it working

PS: how do you put in thumbnails?

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

For us, it has to be the ball gripper, or more to the point, What folks thought it was before they saw it in action. Leaf blower with was best guess :-)

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/30275

Quick vid of it working

This way by far the most innovative way of grabbing the ball I saw all year. Sadly, while their bot wasn't always the most effective and couldn't hurdle, 2106 had hands-down the coolest manipulator.

[martin417]

For 1771 it would have to be the shooter / grabber. The coolest part is the way the whole team got involved. After some initial doubt about the feasibility of a vacuum grabber, all the kids gave input into the final design. As a first year FIRST mentor, I was amazed at what they were able to accomplish. This feature won them the Delphi Innovation trophy at Peachtree, as well as the Xerox creativity award at Championships.

See photos here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/mwilson417/RobotPictures

Early scrimmage highlight video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeQSGmFnKAE

[Katie_UPS]

Its kind lame considering most of the cool responses,
But we have some nifty mechanim wheels, and our tubes are anodized to our colors which looks AWESOME.

And we used to have a cool drum for our lift with a cool swirley design that looked awesome when it spun.

[sgreco]

Originally Posted by martin417

For 1771 it would have to be the shooter / grabber. The coolest part is the way the whole team got involved. After some initial doubt about the feasibility of a vacuum grabber, all the kids gave input into the final design. As a first year FIRST mentor, I was amazed at what they were able to accomplish. This feature won them the Delphi Innovation trophy at Peachtree, as well as the Xerox creativity award at Championships.

See photos here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/mwilson417/RobotPictures

Early scrimmage highlight video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeQSGmFnKAE

That is truly one of if not the coolest robot I saw all year. I like how it could shoot the ball as well use suction to grab it.

Nice job on a great design

[DhavalP]

ours definetly has to be our usage of 9 pneumatic cylinders on our tower, arms, and tilting mechanism and having it be 100% pneumatic.

[Kyle Love]

Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux

Our Team.

Beat me to it.

Our team had a lot of random decals all over it this year, it was awesome. "Are you guys really sponsored by MAE?" That was the best line of the year I heard.

[Geekzilla201]

http://geekzilla201.no-ip.org/files/...s/100_2686.jpg

We may not have been able to do much, but this got a few laughs.