I need Hangin'-A-Round

[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by ManicMechanic

It might not be necessary -- so many new parts have come out since 2007 that better bots can be built, and every year, the winning robots get better. Every year at the end of the season since 2006, our team has looked back on its robot and says, "This is the most versatile, most sophisticated robot our team has built", and they're right. And relative to the field, they have ended up in more or less the same place as the year before.

It's not just materials, either. Our students have a much more sophisticated sense of design and VEX parts capability now than the students did four years ago. The students of 2006-7 simply didn't have the accumulated expertise of four years to draw on. I know that our Hangin' Around robots look like farm implements compared to those they built for Elevation and Clean Sweep.

[Foster]

I know that our Hangin' Around robots look like farm implements compared to those they built for Elevation and Clean Sweep.

We have ours, it's a simple pusher with a double articulated arm to hang. There was an auto mode that swung around the atlas ball and pushed it into our zone.

With what we now know about gears and mechanics we would be able to build a robot that would be able to both score in the goals and hang.

[ManicMechanic]

Originally Posted by Foster

We have ours, it's a simple pusher with a double articulated arm to hang. There was an auto mode that swung around the atlas ball and pushed it into our zone.

You must have stolen the blue prints for our Hangin' Around bot (or we stole yours).

Even better yet was our bot in the April 2005 pilot competition. We had 4 weeks and put together a cracker box on wheels that had lousy turning radius, totally non-functional manipulators and performed worse than the Squarebot.