1726 progress - week 4

[adengler]

Impressive robot all around! Best of luck at the regionals!

[dtengineering]

That looks great, and if the tracking gets tuned in over the next couple weeks it should be deadly in competition.

Rather than painting it blue, however, might I suggest a nice bright aniline dye and some lacquer? Our drive modules a now a nice bright red baltic birch... and as soon as our second toughbox arrives (yes... we were short shipped one in the KoP and FedEx tracking says it will arrive tommorrow) we'll get it mounted and take some photos.

Thanks for the update, great to see that things are going well and that beautiful helix is working well.

Jason

[GaryVoshol]

Oh man! You make the scorer's job hard.

Since I won't see it in AZ or LA, I'll expect to be watching it in Atlanta. Preferably on Sat afternoon.

[Doug Leppard]

Good job, thanks for showing us.

[sdcantrell56]

That is an awesome robot and especially this quickly. It is eerie how similar our designs are even down to the wood, but somehow you guys are ahead of us by at least a week. With all of this time to debug stuff you guys are going to be unstoppable. Good luck and I can't wait to see the finished product.

[Enigma's puzzle]

i however can wait to see the finished product, ill find a way to wait until the Championships, that is unless you are on our team.

But wow, im intimidated.

[pheadxdll]

Awesome looking robot. Just a quick question!

How are the balls in the spiral harvester fed to the top?

[MrForbes]

thanks for the kind words....

The balls are fed to the shooter by a small roller wheel just under it, at the top of the helix. This is another part we need to work on, the helix drives the balls up against this and the balls can sneak out around the part that is supposed to stop them. Today's challenge for the mechanism team is to design a cure for this problem.

The picture is a few days old, showing the roller on the prototype top part, looking up from below.

[Brandon Holley]

1726...GREAT JOB!!

Very impressive robot.

Kudos to you guys for getting this done this quickly.



GO NERDS

[spc295]

now the programmers get the robot right

[MrForbes]

What's interesting about this year, is that the programmers have already had the robot for most of the build season, and they got a head start by spending a few work sessions getting the new control system up and running before kickoff. We have a much bigger programming team than we've ever had (4-5 students vs. 1) and they are taking advantage of many of the features that LabView offers.

[Donut]

That's a deadly looking robot there! Have you gotten to testing while the trailer moves around yet (or is your strategy to wait for opportune moments)?

1726 has been one of the top teams at AZ since their inception (even with last year's electrical troubles they still had one of the best hurdlers there). With the experience of LA before the regional this year (and another 2 weeks to work on the robot) you're going to be difficult to contend with

Oh, and will that whole side panel for electronics be removable (or have a quick release cover)? That looks like a nice easy access design.

[Sean Raia]

WOW! i never thought of feeding the ball to the turret like that! I like how you mounted the electronics, make sure thats stable because if the gets bumped it looks like it might fall off.

Nice design though!

[pitzoid]

Nice job NERDS! Can't wait to see you guys on the field in AZ.....

[JesseK]

Innovation with wood, and a near 360 degree turret it looks like; great job guys!

Now, it's time for some color!