pic: AIR Strike 78 2012

[Lil' Lavery]

Awesome work. Can't wait to to see what it can do on the field. Wish I could convince NAVSSES to let us use a warehouse.


How well does loading from the floor work when your turret/tower isn't at a right angle compared to your loader?

[mott]

About how many driving hours have you been able to put on that machine?

That design (with the turret at the bottom of the tower) was exactly what we were going to do originally until we realized that we needed to support the top of our tower to prevent it from snapping off at the frame/turret during rough driving/collisions/bump crossings/etc. The weight of that shooting head (especially with 2 CIMs up there) will induce incredible forces on the base of your tower during rough play.

Great looking machine though for sure!

Congrats.

[TD78]

Our NAVSEA sponsor graciously pays the rent on our warehouse workspace. We have enough space for our workshop, 1 FRC team, 3 VEX teams, and 2 FTC teams. They were also instrumental in getting us a (new) CNC machine...a 1995 Wells-Index. Taken some time to learn how to use...it's been a fun learning experience.

I believe the turret is coded to revert back to center in order to pick up.

We have some driving time on the lazy susan bearing, but it was never beaten up like it could at a competition. It's a rather beefy bearing...got it through McMaster. We'll see!

[BrendanB]

Very elegant robot 78! Can't wait to see this in a few days!