What trick can your robot do

[nickma]

Now that we are almost 2 weeks into the 2003 season most teams have a very good idea on what there designs look like and probably have started some building.
How many teams out there have robots can do interesting tricks or have unique features.

For starts the 229 robot will float on water, just incase the playing surface is changed at the last second we will be prepared.

[ChewyMasterFlex]

Originally posted by nickma

For starts the 229 robot will float on water, just incase the playing surface is changed at the last second we will be prepared.

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I was drawing up plans for a break dancing robot that has pneumatic pushy things on all 6 sides of the bot, and it's 14x60x36, so it can do all the crazy stuph we want it to....but then they said skrew that....I jus' wanted to see this creation just going nuts in their goal area so they won't be able to do anything...

[Brett W]

I was making a design for a robot that could do a 360 over the bar while holding a bin. Hey Tony Hawk Watch out.

[Gobiner]

Some team connected the drill motors, with transmission in high gear, to 10" Skyway wheels. According to my numbers, that should make their robot go 29.7 mph. That's a neat trick, can't wait to see a robot go 30 over the hill and crush a few boxes on the other side.

[Cory]

Originally posted by Gobiner
Some team connected the drill motors, with transmission in high gear, to 10" Skyway wheels. According to my numbers, that should make their robot go 29.7 mph. That's a neat trick, can't wait to see a robot go 30 over the hill and crush a few boxes on the other side.

This wont work... You wont be able to move, because the motor wont have enough torque to overcome the friction of the wheels and move your robot in high gear. You must reduce the speed by using gears/sprockets/whatever. You can still go fast, but not 30 mph. Plus, you'd probably trip breakers going that fast anyways

[rolocroz]

Our robot has a 40-foot-long articulated arm that can grab a box from a stack on one side of the field and put it on a stack on the other side.

[JVN]

Originally posted by nickma

For starts the 229 robot will float on water, just incase the playing surface is changed at the last second we will be prepared.

Shhh! Dont give away any of our secrets Nick! We need something up our sleeve for UTC!

[tatsak42]

Oooooh oooh ooh, initial plans were a "Beam me up, Scotty" device that would immediately teleport all the bins to our scoring zone, and then keep moving the opponents bots away... Other than that, we had our nuke-bot, rocket-bot, heli-bot, flame-torch-bot, etc.etc.

[JVN]

Originally posted by tatsak42
Oooooh oooh ooh, initial plans were a "Beam me up, Scotty" device that would immediately teleport all the bins to our scoring zone, and then keep moving the opponents bots away... Other than that, we had our nuke-bot, rocket-bot, heli-bot, flame-torch-bot, etc.etc.

The funny thing is... when we say our robot floats... we're NOT joking. Even I can't believe this one, but it's true.

[Andrew]

We're hoping to use our autonomous phase to release a cloud of green smoke. We also have a remote camera, which hopefully FIRST will approve.

We're also using the yaw rate sensor this year to stabilize our tail rotor in our helicopter-bot.
Andrew, Team 356

[Noah]

Originally posted by JVN
The funny thing is... when we say our robot floats... we're NOT joking. Even I can't believe this one, but it's true.

My question is, how did you find that out?!? Leak in the lab? or something more mischievous... (i.e. prank from a school club/ rival school's robot team)

Or was it intentional?

"Hey guys, I've got a great idea, lets throw the robot in the pool! Swim team will never know what hit 'em... hehehe... guys? why are you looking at me like that? guys? guys?!?"

[Greg Perkins]

ours can walk... hehehe

bad

[Joel Glidden]

One trick that Andrew didn't mention - our robot will be able to let the babies out of all the bins.

-Joel

[SkitzoSmurf]

Originally posted by rolocroz
Our robot has a 40-foot-long articulated arm that can grab a box from a stack on one side of the field and put it on a stack on the other side.

That is sick. I think they had some idea like that in the beiginning animation. Kool, Kool

[evulish]

Heh...You could touch the grinch with that size pole! Or grab a few spectators to hold down your bin stack