pic: 2007 Robot Brain

[Stephi Rae]

Very impressive. I would also like to see that modeled in inventor. we're a rookie team, and i had to come up with our electronics organization this year and used inventor to lay it out... unfortunately we had to do a lot of rearranging... I think that if I were able to compact things like this we would have a lot less trouble next year. If I am seeing things correctly your RC is elevated, right? therefore giving you space to work with underneath, where you keep your backup battery I assume? as well as maybe a spike or two it appears, and a few pwms run under there... right? haha maybe i'm assuming too much, that sounds like a lot of stuff under there, but i guess I wouldn't doubt it seeing how much you fit in the area surrounding the RC.

[Pavan Dave]

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Originally Posted by Kris Verdeyen

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Originally Posted by cbale2000

I'll bet the judges gave you a hard time about it. I'm amazed you didn't have any issues with overheating. I know had we put that many victors so close together our mentors would have made us use additional fans!

Just out of curiosity, why did you make it so small? Did you need space or just felt like keeping it compact?

I was in charge of inspecting the robot this year again and the inspectors loved that the brain was very organized and that is all they liked , they had some issues with our brain being mounted on top of our fuse panel (20A-30A) but after a flashlight and a screwdriver they lightened up, but insisted SEVERAL times to make everything more visible in the future.

Our reason for making it so small is because of our base. If you see pictures of our robot, we have a very low CG and we had planned the base to place certain key components in certain spots (the V6, Compressor, Battery, Brain). So to answer your question, we space elsewhere on the robot for other functions AND we wanted to make it compact after previous years of our "keep it together" strategy.

Originally Posted by Stephi Rae

Very impressive. I would also like to see that modeled in inventor. we're a rookie team, and i had to come up with our electronics organization this year and used inventor to lay it out... unfortunately we had to do a lot of rearranging... I think that if I were able to compact things like this we would have a lot less trouble next year. If I am seeing things correctly your RC is elevated, right? therefore giving you space to work with underneath, where you keep your backup battery I assume? as well as maybe a spike or two it appears, and a few pwms run under there... right? haha maybe i'm assuming too much, that sounds like a lot of stuff under there, but i guess I wouldn't doubt it seeing how much you fit in the area surrounding the RC.

Yes sir you are correct, our RC is mounted higher but you are mistaken as to what is under there. Underneath lies our 20A-30A fuse panel. Also on our RC you might notice a piece of Velcro, that is where our backup battery was placed during competition.

[CWBWBN]

that is definately the cleanest electronics board i have ever seen for as much stuff is on there!!

mch
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