Team 1538 Proudly Presents: Daisy Thunder

[MasonMM]

Guys,
Simple, Elegant, and Clean - I am continuously in awe of ya'lls ability to build a beautiful machine. Don't settle for just a 7 disc auton or a lousy human player.

[OZ_341]

Great Robot! We also like the name.
Good luck to all of our friends on the Holy Cows!

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Jon Jack

Kinsuk,

It's just a 10 point climber, but it should be pretty fast.

Glenn,
A lot of the kids had gone home for the day when we took the video, so I had to jump in as feeder. Not bad considering we had a washed up Einstein driver, a first time human player and a kid who barely knew how to operate?

I love hearing about how a robot came to be, I guess we'll let everyone in on the origin of the design...

The day of kick-off we came to the conclusion that:

1) a good auto mode could win most of our matches (at the regional level) before anyone touched the sticks.

2) floor loading was a requirement for a few reasons. First off, you needed to floor load to pick up more discs. Secondly, partners would inevitably miss shots and we being able to pick up their missed shots would cut down our cycle times and increase our throughput. Lastly, we noticed that it was very hard to shoot the colored discs in the pyramid or throw them from the loading station. We wanted to be able to take our opponents colored discs out of the game and reduce the number of possible points they could score in the pyramid goal.

3) A level 1 climb was required, however we felt we could mitigate the effects of a level 2 and 3 climb by being a strong disc scorer.

With this in mind we figured we were looking at a fairly complex robot. With lots of single purpose mechanisms. After our team meeting Kiet and I went down the street to a restaurant to discuss the game further. When we arrived, he came up to me and said "You know what we need? We need a 67 arm!". He was referring to 67's utility arm from 2012. At first I thought he was joking and then after a few minutes of talking about it, we realized it wasn't that bad of an idea. When we sat down we talked about how the arm could be used to pick up discs, tilt the shooter, hang, etc. Suddenly our list of mechanisms went from 8 or 9 to 5. Over the next few days we started working on individual parts of the arm (floor loader/funnel, magazine/feeder, shooter, etc). About mid way through week 2 all of these prototypes had been integrated together and worked pretty well together, so this design was given the green light.

This is literally the exact same set of requirements and conversation that went down on 2495. Feels good knowing the team did something similar to an FRC elite!

The robot is beautiful as always and I'm excited to see your autonomous modes. We'll be striving to deliver some 4+ disk autons as well, it'll just be harder with the single file intake.

Best of luck Jon, Kiet, and the crew!

[Lil' Lavery]

So, what happened to that 30-pt climber prototype?

[Joe Ross]

Nice arm.

[sanddrag]

Yet another "why didn't we think of that?" and "wow, we really got this all wrong" moments. Very elegant.

[NXTGeek]

Woah boy San Diego's gonna be great! Can't wait to compete with THUNDER!

[iPenguin]

Holy Cow! I mean...Holy You! err...

Awesome job guys. Love the smooth arm.

[Steven Donow]

Very beautiful robot, I can't wait to watch it compete; really wish I could see this in person. Love the custom painted performance wheels


Also, any particular reason there are no fans on the Talons-as it seems like you are using all Talons.

[sdcantrell56]

Beautiful robot. Almost looks like our twin!

[Astrokid248]

Oh no, it doesn't look like a shopping cart!
I kid, Daisy looks pretty awesome.

[Hallry]

The name sounds like a collaboration between 341 and 217 . I like it. Looks beautiful, as always. Hopefully will see you at Champs.

[Michael Corsetto]

My favorite part about this robot is how built it is for the 7 disc autonomous mode. Can't wait to see it in action, beautiful robot! California definitely has style

-Mike

[Josh Goodman]

Incredible robot design. I absolutely love this. Props to all of you! Definitely a "why didn't I think of that" moment.

Once again another beautiful machine from the Holy Cows. Can't wait to see it in action this year.