pic: FRC 2753, Team Overdrive 2009 Robot

[coldfusion1279]

Allow me to be the first to say that their handling is amazing. The robot was well controlled all the time. It was a lot of fun practicing with you guys, despite our technical difficulties...

[Lowfategg]

Originally Posted by coldfusion1279

Allow me to be the first to say that their handling is amazing. The robot was well controlled all the time. It was a lot of fun practicing with you guys, despite our technical difficulties...

Yes, we do love the way it drives.

It was fun practicing with you guys too.

See you in NJ (your going right?).

[R.C.]

Great bot, loving the simplicity in the design and it seems to be very effective. Do i see a rookie regional win this year?

[AnibaS]

This looks great! The top container is a pretty unique design; haven't seen something like that yet.

I look forward to seeing it in action at Javits! =]

One question, what's the shooting range?

[Church]

Good luck this year! I'll be seeing you in Trenton! The bot looks great.

[Ericgehrken]

What type banebots transmissions are those?

[Lowfategg]

There Banebot 540 with fisherprices put in them. There a little hard to come by since there being replaced with the new P60 gearboxes but a few online robot stores have them still.

[Ericgehrken]

Which reduction did you use?

[Lowfategg]

Originally Posted by firstbots195

Which reduction did you use?

For NJ and NYC regional it was a 36:1 on the main belt, and 25:1 on the top roller.

In Atlanta we changed it to 25:1 on the main belt and 16:1 on the top roller.

[Founder]

Did you guys ever have problems with the hopper having a flat bottom, instead of having a sloped bottom to the front where the roller is?

[jblay]

well the base of the hopper comes up to a slant with the use of what i believe is a window motor. you may have seen this on 103's modification to a power dumper which was a concept they took from 2753.

[R.C.]

Originally Posted by Founder

Did you guys ever have problems with the hopper having a flat bottom, instead of having a sloped bottom to the front where the roller is?

Team 11 was one teams to lift their hopper up and dump (using a pneumatic piston). 2753 does the same thing but has rollers in the front aka making it a power dumper. But as pointed out earlier, overdrive uses a window motor.

[craigcd]

I was the field supervisor for the Archimedes Division. The only problem I had with your robot is that every time that you competed I had to have two field reset people swifter the playing field to remove the worn conveyor belt material. Congratulations to your team on a wonderful championship. I expect to see great things from your team in the coming years. See you next year at the championship.