pic: Team 125 Drive

[Daniel Brim]

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[Tom Bottiglieri]

Looks great. This machine should be a great competitor if the launcher works as well as I think it will.

[Michael Corsetto]

Looks very nice and streamlined. I like how the side plate for the entire drivetrain also serves as one of the sides to the gearbox. How is the whole system tensioned? Can't wait to see the rest of it.

Mike C.

[EricVicenti]

Beautiful drivetrain. Keep up the good work!

[Jimmy Nichols]

What is your ground clearance?

[Daniel Brim]

Originally Posted by Rex114

Looks very nice and streamlined. I like how the side plate for the entire drivetrain also serves as one of the sides to the gearbox. How is the whole system tensioned? Can't wait to see the rest of it.

Mike C.

There is no tensioner for the belts implemented at the moment. It will probably end up being a piece of delrin underneath the bumper standoffs (the bigger plate between the sides).

Originally Posted by Jimmy Nichols

What is your ground clearance?

At the sides, our ground clearance is 1/2". Our battery plate is below this, so in the middle it's 3/8". We also have a few nuts below that. There's a video from ground-level of this thing driving floating around somewhere, so hopefully we can upload that and show it to everybody.

[Jimmy Nichols]

Originally Posted by Daniel Brim

At the sides, our ground clearance is 1/2". Our battery plate is below this, so in the middle it's 3/8". We also have a few nuts below that. There's a video from ground-level of this thing driving floating around somewhere, so hopefully we can upload that and show it to everybody.

Just a warning, there is a ~1/2" bump on the playing field around the lane divider.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Nichols

Just a warning, there is a ~1/2" bump on the playing field around the lane divider.

This will go right over it. Remember, it has wheels.

[kborer22]

Here you go, 2 vids 1 of us turning on a dime, and the other doing a little driving

Turning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBTPLcIByU4

Driving: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsa3PC0lOb8

[D_Price]

nice design but will it hold up if a ball is dropped on it.

[MrForbes]

Very nice, I'll have to spend some time looking it over in a few weeks!

[kborer22]

Originally Posted by Hell918

nice design but will it hold up if a ball is dropped on it.

we have designed this to be a very robust system, similar to last year's design. example: some new members of the team were testing reading encoder values, something went wrong and the disable switch did not disable, the robot ended up driving/falling/jumping a set of 4 stairs, not a thing happened to it.

[Daniel Brim]

Originally Posted by Hell918

nice design but will it hold up if a ball is dropped on it.

Absolutely. The system is extremely sturdy, and not much of that (if any) will be prone to contact by a ball once we get our other mechanisms on it.

[MrForbes]

A couple days ago I spent some time throwing the ball at our robot...what fun!

[Jimmy Nichols]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

This will go right over it. Remember, it has wheels.

Maybe, maybe not, depends on whether the 1/2" bump is a 1/2" and it isn't 5/8" of 3/4" at a regional.