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[Starke]

matt bradley, your team always impresses me with what you come up with. a turret i presume? keep up the good work and maybe ill see you some time this year.

[phrontist]

I'm curious... is your turret gravity loaded or loaded from the bottom? How many axises does it rotate in? Are you planning on shooting in the low goal, and if not, why shoot from a low position?

Looks good, wish we were as far!

[bradleym1559]

Thanks a lot for the input everybody! I will get this back to the team to work on. Thanks again!

[Zach Purser]

For anyone interested in the casters:
http://www.outwatercatalogs.com/outw...398&catalog=ow

[Murf the Smurf]

I love the turret idea

yours looks allot like ours but I was curious how you were going to mount and program your cam

we aren't sure whether to put it on the turret itself or mount it separately on the bot

[bradleym1559]

Originally Posted by Murf the Smurf

I love the turret idea

yours looks allot like ours but I was curious how you were going to mount and program your cam

we aren't sure whether to put it on the turret itself or mount it separately on the bot

As far as i know they were going to mount the camera directly to the cannon, so where the camera focuses is where the cannon shoots. Kind of simplifies the whole system. Right Now they are still working on perfecting the camera's focusing on the green. The idea is that, like with the camera mount they gave us, it will pan for the green, but through the other motors controlling the pitch of the turret and the horizontal angle. They are going to use the window motors to turn the turret and change the pitch. they said that this way they wouldnt need constant feedback from the motors as to where they are as they would just be following the green at all times. I could be wrong. Don't quote me, I'm a lower mechanical mentor. Hopefully it will work. Sounded good to me.

[Alekat]

Are you planning on making it up the ramp?

[bradleym1559]

Originally Posted by Alekat

Are you planning on making it up the ramp?

Supposedly it can climb the ramp right now, but with all the weight on it I'm not sure this design will suffice. Personally, I'm not too sure that casters are conducive to hill-climbing, so they might end up changing it to 4wd in the future. I suggested the large wheels in the front and omniwheels in the back for best traction.

[krADLEY]

Thanks for letting us know the aluminum plates were illegal, that was a lot of help.

[krADLEY]

I watched the robot go up the ramp today with no weight. It gathers pretty good speed and can make it up no problem, the caster however reduce the mobility once on the ramp.

[Alekat]

Originally Posted by krADLEY

I watched the robot go up the ramp today with no weight. It gathers pretty good speed and can make it up no problem, the caster however reduce the mobility once on the ramp.

I can imagine that it would be hard to "make room" for allies on the ramp, but I don't think it's a big concern. It would just take a bit of planning ahead in some strategies.