Team 68's REAL ROBOT!!!

[Alexander McGee]

here it is, the real thing. sorry, but i couldn't help posting the pictures of our mockup robot earlier this season. This is the truck town robot. enjoy.

[Alexander McGee]

arms go up too, (DUH)

[Alexander McGee]

and arms go out

[Alexander McGee]

and arms go over, you get the point.

[Aaron Lussier]

... ... Wow... Just wow

[Eric Bareiss]

I can't belive you actually did it! I could not think of how to get over the sides and block the bar too, but you did it. Wow. It looks almost unstoppable. I applaud you.

[Alexander McGee]

better view of the second and third stage arms

[Matt Reiland]

Fantastic Robot, wonderful job on all of the welding

I have a feeling it is going to take a whippen though this year guarding all of the different access areas.

[Harrison]

Truck Town does it again....

Guys, that is a fabulous looking machine...my hats' off to you.

See you at the GLR!

(PS: Hopefully that one won't tip over like the onle last year did...I remember that happening to you guys...)

[Mark Garver]

(PS: Hopefully that one won't tip over like the onle last year did...I remember that happening to you guys...)

This one shouldn't do anything like that. And if you remember correctly the problem of tipping was taken care of shortly after it was discovered to be a possible problem. The problem of tipping didn't take place again at Great Lakes, Western Michigan, or Nationals. Lets hope there isn't a call for reverse engineering this year.

Great job guys, you make myself as an alumnus very proud!!!

Hey Alex, how about some stats? Toss in some Mr. Smith calculations

[Caleb Fulton]

How do you make sure it is aligned properly before deploying the secondary arms?

[Ken Leung]

The robot looks great! Very creative design. Except one thing that keep bugging me.

I believe the rules states that robots are not allow to interact with the barrier... Just like at 2001 when robots aren't supposed to use the limbo bar to climb over, or at 2000 when robots aren't suppose to touch the goals to score balls.

So, when an opponent robot push against your fork, and the ended up pushing against the barrier, wouldn't that be illegal when you are using the barrier to help block enemy robot?

I suppose a different angle to look at this is if a robot is in front of the barrier, and an opponent robot push against the first robot, and can't go under the bar because the first robot won't fit under... than that would be ok because the robot isn't intentionally using the barrier to block the opponent robot...

I don't mean to be disrespectful... I am just wondering if you thought about this when you design the robot?

[Alexander McGee]

Originally posted by Ken L
I believe the rules states that robots are not allow to interact with the barrier...

yes, we have thought of this. the rule states (please correct me if i am wrong) that you can not interact with more than one "face" of the barrier. well, there is no way that (even if u pushed on both sides) those arms would pinch so that it touched on two sides. This form of agressive pushing is also considered "pinning"

GM31
Reacting is grabbing or using the top of the field borders, the top of the driver stations, the top of the pipes at midfield, and the top of the platform/ramp polycarbonate sides with the intent of supporting a robot or robot part. It is also unacceptable to grab onto or push hard enough against multiple surfaces simultaneously in order to wedge and make immovable a robot. Contact with all of the barriers is acceptable

at the end of the game, however, we have to lift our arms up, in order to get the extra 25 points

[BionicAlumni]

Does the bot lift up off the HDPE and put all of its weight on the carpet until the last second? Or is no weight tranfered to the carpet?

[Bduggan04]

Very Cool. It looks neat and strong. However, it seems like it would be easy to eliminate the king of the hill points by pressing the forks against the midfield barrier.

[Alexander McGee]

Originally posted by BionicAlumni
Does the bot lift up off the HDPE and put all of its weight on the carpet until the last second? Or is no weight tranfered to the carpet?

no weight is transfered to the carpet.

[Alexander McGee]

Originally posted by Bduggan04
Very Cool. It looks neat and strong. However, it seems like it would be easy to eliminate the king of the hill points by pressing the forks against the midfield barrier.

after 10 seconds that becomes pinning. and, in the time it would take to back away, we can easily lift our arms up at the last second.

[f22flyboy]

Whats the distance from the HDPE to the underside of your arms?

[Alexander McGee]

Originally posted by f22flyboy
Whats the distance from the HDPE to the underside of your arms?

0 inches

our downrigging system comes out of the end of the first section of arms (not pictured in any of the previuous photos), locks into place, and weight is transferred to pads, adding more stability. however, if you are simply refering to height, its about 9 inches, but, unless you have a super skinny bot, your not going to make it past our downriggers

[f22flyboy]

I was thinking more along the lines of "through" rather than under