pic: Our Practice Field

[TheOtherTaylor]

How do you work in that room?

[LightWaves1636]

Originally Posted by TheOtherTaylor

How do you work in that room?

Only about a third of the actual room is showing but there's no room to build an entire rack because our school got rid of the drafting program and thus dumped all the desks into our lab(it used to be the autoshop class but it got dropped years ago). Our lab is also where all the reject electronics of our school goes to as well. Radios, stereos, and etc. are kept for beginning electronics classes to disect and learn de-solder and re-solder parts as well as learning about components. For outdated computers, it's where the recycling company from the school district comes to pick them up. The arms don't swing. They're built on a 2 by 4 and strapped to the column. The light, I helped built, but mounting it, the team made a rookie do it.

P.S. This is not the only room(The old autoshop room) we work in, we also have a classroom that goes into this room and if you keep walking, we have the laser room where our CNC Laser is located, and then if you still keep walking, we also have the woodshop classroom.

[Donut]

Nice inginuitive way of fitting a practice piece into such a small area!

We're working on doing something similar to what you did (fitting 1/8 of a rack anywhere we can for practice), but we're limited by 8 foot ceilings in classrooms so we have to make it dissassemble. Once we get it done tommorow I'll post some pictures of it, you might want to consider something like it for easy storage but still giving you the "swing" of the spider legs.

On a side note, have you considered building your robot out of old computer casings?

[Eldarion]

Hey, all that junk in the background looks familiar!

If there are any old scanners in that pile, the flourescent tubes make great control board lighting! (If you mount your controls on clear Lexan, it give it that Star Trek feel ) Most of the time, you can even scavenge the inverters to run the lights directly from 12v.

Oh, by the way, nice goal.