Universal Minibot Deployment Interface?

[maclaren]

So from the kickoff video they encouraged us to consider making multiple minibots and sharing them with our alliance partners. I was wondering if any one had a proposal for a universal minibot deployment interface? Such an interface would allow teams to share minibots regardless of which regional they attend and could be a fun collaborative project. The interface would allow each team to develop their own minibots and deployment systems but would allow teams to share their minibots.

I was thinking maybe something like equipping the minibot with a simple tab toward the top of the minibot that it could rest on.


The tab is really simple just a 1x1 inch tab with a clearance hole for a 1/4 post that is centered on the cross bar. The bottom side of the tab is 2" from the top of the minibot envelope.

The example minibot(red) is 12x12x11 so that the tab extends to fill out the 12x12x12 box.

I drew this example in the simplest form so that people would have the greatest chance to innovate in their minibots and deployment mechanisms.

I would love to hear anyone else's ideas on this.

If you are interested in adopting a universal minibot deployment interface UMDI then pleas post. Hopefully we can all work together and in the next week or two we can have a set interface so that people can adopt it on their robots.

Thanks everybody and have a wonderful build season!

[andreboos]

See http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=88367

[Hallry]

I believe that we already have a thread regarding this going here: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=88367

[maclaren]

Thanks for the notification I glanced at the current post list but I guess I missed the thread so I posted a reply to the existing thread.