video: Team THRUST 1501 Lunacy 2009 Robot

[Chris_Elston]

Here is a video I dedicated to my students.

This year was one of the best 1501 years in my book. Our students did such a great job. So many of them deserve credit for their thoughts, ideas, leadership and dedication to the program this year.

One student designed the drive base that was inspiration from a concept car, another prototyped a kicker idea which spawned into a pneumatic shooter, to several other students developing lead roles on the team in electrical and programming and taken charge of those departments from start to end.

I highlighted not only the robot but a "few" members I caught on camera, I wished I had gotten them all.

It was fun to sit back and watch the 2009 season unfold and the spark that these kids had doing what they have learned.

Very proud of you 1501 students.

Please come by our pits at BMR and ask my students "what they have done"...

Here is the video of the bot:

http://www.vimeo.com/3278818

[Taylor]

Beautiful as always. Early this year I had 1501 pegged as a team to watch. Can't wait to see you guys succeed at BMR.

[sgreco]

I love it. that shooter looks really cool. I like the lift mechanism too.

The blue paneling on the sides definitely adds to it.

[IndySam]

Might be the prettiest robot yet. Great work THRUST!

[Steven Zehner]

"DING!" Haha love it...btw, ive seen the robot up close, and its pretty...really really pretty.

[Wayne Doenges]

I love it. that shooter looks really cool. I like the lift mechanism too.

The blue paneling on the sides definitely adds to it.

The Shooter is a single cylinder. We got the idea from 1024 ball shooter from last year.

The lift came from thinking outside of the box We transport the balls outside of the Bumper Perimeter

The blue panels are both functional and add to the overall eye pleasing design.

[engunneer]

ooh. Shiiiny.

That is a very pleasing looking robot. I love that the balls are brought up the back.

Even the control board has a big shiny red button (best kind)

Great work.

[Qbranch]

Hahahah it does ding! I love it.

(By the way, this just pushed me over the edge. I'm really going to try and making to BMR now, even though it'll just be Saturday)

Fantastic job, 1501 Programmer. I can see the auto tracking running in the videos... and the ranging?! Is that just happening or is it controllable? Do I spy traction control? Looks great!

And certainly no less of a great job to all the team members and mentors on 1501... it looks like you guys really poured your heart and soul into this robot, and it shows. Great!

You guys really, really have it together over there. There might be a lot of fine robots out there, but the teams that make them in a way that really embodies the spirit of FIRST like this one... those are few and far between.

I can't wait to see you all at Boilermaker. I might sound like a broken record, but fantastic job!

-q

p.s. Chris, that video's like all pro man.

[samir13k]

Originally Posted by Qbranch

Hahahah it does ding! I love it.

(By the way, this just pushed me over the edge. I'm really going to try and making to BMR now, even though it'll just be Saturday)

Fantastic job, 1501 Programmer. I can see the auto tracking running in the videos... and the ranging?! Is that just happening or is it controllable? Do I spy traction control? Looks great!

Hope to see you there Alex!
And yes, that shooter is automatically calculating the distance of the trailor! (nice job Luke) The rangefinder also does have a manual over-ride on the OI so that the operator can control the direction and distance of the ball.
On the other hand, the drive base is set up with kit encoders, but they were not working properly so we do not have the traction control we were working towards originally. However, Luke was able to program in Traction control to the drive program still, based on time and not on wheel spin.

...PS, Chris got us a beastly encoder for the turret!

[Wayne Doenges]

And certainly no less of a great job to all the team members and mentors on 1501... it looks like you guys really poured your heart and soul into this robot, and it shows. Great!

The last two years the robot was part aluminum monocoque and part chrome moly. We decided that it would be all monocoque this year. That's what we do and who we are.
Glad you all like it. Come see us play at BMR and hopefully Atlanta.

[NextPerception]

The robot looks amazing.
850F is way to hot for that soldering iron though
(unless your trying to cover the floor make molten pools of metal)
around 600 is all you need for most stuff and you will wear out your iron extremley fast if you use it at 850 all the time.
But like I said. GREAT looking robot!