pic: Daisy Bell Going Over The Bump

[robodude03]

Originally Posted by Jon Jack

Another thing I will finally say is that during San Diego QF2-2 we sheered a 7075AL output shaft in one of our transmissions (I will post a picture on CD-Media after I make this post). It just so happened that a transmission output shaft was one of the shafts we did not have spares for in San Diego. So we removed the broken shaft, took a spare shaft from a different part of the robot and "MacGyvered" it in place. The whole operation took about 15 minutes - we didn't even have to use a timeout...

The robot ran through the next two semi-final matches without a glitch - still able to go over the bumps as though nothing was wrong. Thursday morning in Utah (our next regional) we completely rebuilt both sides of the drivetrain with new (redesigned) shafts and sideplates.

I remember this, it was an intense 15 minutes for sure! To make it without even using a timeout, there were some sweaty people at the end of those 15 minutes.