pic: 1717 Fills a Goal

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Originally Posted by roboticWanderor

IS THAT A PENGUIN SWERVE DRIVE I SEE THERE?
what a wonderfully, beautifully, elegantly designed robot! does your helix roller idle against the ball with those brushes, like 148's does? wonderful robot guys!!

Yes it is swerve drive! In the past we have gone exclusively with 6-wheel dropped center chain drive, so a belt-driven swerve drive has been a real learning experience. I was the one tasked with modeling the drive module in solidworks, it took about 12 hours to finish, and is composed of about 30 different parts.

As for the brushes, the core does stop spinning when we are not collecting or shooting. It saves power, and the brushes have enough friction to keep the balls from rolling back down.

Here are a few pictures that our friends on team 1726 took of our robot. The second-to-last one is my beautiful wheel module.

Thank you for your kind words

Originally Posted by squirrel

Friday morning pics of the robots...not very good pictures, but good enough for out scouts

http://selectric.org/nerds/2009la/

Some pics of 1717, I hope Amir doesn't mind me showing the world how beautiful their machine is!