Team 241's Turret Prototype ontop of the Harvester Prototype

[Dantvman27]

What The 2009 Astro-Machine might look like

[NorviewsVeteran]

Right now it doesn't look like much of a queue to the shooter. Not many chances to make it into the trailer.

[Dantvman27]

It's only a model, don't worry

[bixbyrobotics1]

What is that turntable?
We are looking everywhere for ideas and cannot find any...

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by bixbyrobotics1

What is that turntable?
We are looking everywhere for ideas and cannot find any...

Check McMaster


http://www.mcmaster.com/#18635a52/=c093o

[Lesman]

Originally Posted by Dantvman27

It's only a model

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGAYk5VWkTw

[R.C.]

We are doing about the same thing but we have a hopper and feeder system integrated together with a turret on top.

[b williams]

How are you planning on getting the balls up to the top so the turret can shoot them?

[AB755]

The build season seems to be taking a toll on the students. They have all aged quite a bit.

[qwertyuiop[]\]

this is pretty funny because it is the inverse of our robot. we have our collector at the top and our pneumatic turret on the bottom.

[Pjohn1959]

Originally Posted by AB755

The build season seems to be taking a toll on the students. They have all aged quite a bit.

That's great. ( I almost fell off my chair)

I think that has happened to a lot of teams...

[teampronto]

Not to diss any teams, but I don't really like seeing only mentors working on a robot. I've heard that's how it is a lot with the good teams, but it makes me sad

[R.C.]

Originally Posted by teampronto

Not to diss any teams, but I don't really like seeing only mentors working on a robot. I've heard that's how it is a lot with the good teams, but it makes me sad

Sorry homeslice, but teams can be 90% mentor run if they want to be. FIRST is about working with the engineers and if kids get inspired by that then thatz great. No one for sure knows if their (ELITE TEAMS) bots are mentor built and this idea has been discussed over various threads. Lets not start that here. We are fully student run, so yeah. But we still have help from our engineers. The point is that Mentor built or mostly mentor built bots are ok IF THEY INSPIRE STUDENTS TO WORK HARDER OR IF THEY LEARN MORE.

-RC

[teampronto]

Yeah. I get what you are saying. It just seems like it would kinda ruin the point of a competition. I get that FIRST is about the inspiring and the learning, but really.. It can also bring down the hopes a spirit of other kids who ARE doing most of the work on their bots. Just my 2.

[R.C.]

Originally Posted by teampronto

Yeah. I get what you are saying. It just seems like it would kinda ruin the point of a competition. I get that FIRST is about the inspiring and the learning, but really.. It can also bring down the hopes a spirit of other kids who ARE doing most of the work on their bots. Just my 2.

Your not alone with that, when I started FIRST in 2006; I felt the same way. Why do Poofs, RAWC, Pink, Beachbots do so good and kick our butts. They are so mentor built. WRONG OR RIGHT. They have a great offseason, great mentors to help create fantastic bots. I at first did think that they cheated and now I have come to accept the fact that those teams just rock. Itz kinda like sports, Yankees have enough money to buy the best players and the best equipment. But don't u want to beat those teams ever? What fun would it be if everyone was equally matched. I would like to take time and thank all the 6+ year veterans for making this competition so awesome and for creating killer miller bots. I really don't care if a group of engineers build a bot or students, I just wanna learn and have great build and offseason. Also I want to give back to the FIRST Community as much as I can.

2.75 Weeks left have fun teams,
Good Luck

-RC