Team 254 Presents: Overkill

[Botwoon]

Why did you guys choose the minicims over the bag motors for your shooter/collector? I'm guessing you had the weight to spare and just geared them to your liking.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Botwoon

Why did you guys choose the minicims over the bag motors for your shooter/collector? I'm guessing you had the weight to spare and just geared them to your liking.

We tried two BAG motors. They don't have enough oomph for our liking.

[kenavt]

Do you guys have any interesting programming or electrical designs (that obviously wouldn't come out in a picture)?

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by kenavt

Do you guys have any interesting programming or electrical designs (that obviously wouldn't come out in a picture)?

The electrical system is pretty standard, nothing but stock components and off the shelf sensors.

We release our software every season after Championships, so check back then for more info. I can tell you that we decided to move from C++ to Java this year and are pretty pleased.

[THE DYNAMO]

do you know what will happen if you high-center on a frisbee? if your other bots are anything to go on, your usual diamond- pattern bellypan might not agree with a fribee.

[joelg236]

Originally Posted by lorem3k

Looks stretched and pixely, try this instead.

Oh don't worry, that's just the screenshot being low res. I have the full res version (4928x3264).

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank

Team 254, NASA Ames Robotics "The Cheesy Poofs", proudly presents our 2013 robot, Overkill.



(See team254.com/2013frc for more details and a photo without the text.)

Robot features:

• Quick and highly maneuverable 6-wheel drive. Driven by 6 motors in two-speed gearboxes with max speed of 20+ ft/sec
• Fast and reliable two-disc-wide intake acquires discs from floor, aligns them and indexes them in conveyor
• Dual angle adjustable-range shooter shoots discs from many positions on the near side of field
• Fast, high-powered conveyor and lifter mechanism ensure reliable feeding of discs into shooter
• Fast and reliable 10 point hanging mechanism can lift robot to hang from bar at the match end buzzer
• Quick 30 point hang mechanism lifts robot to top of pyramid with 2000+ watts of power from a drive gearbox power take-off (PTO)

Overkill will compete at the San Diego Regional, the Silicon Valley Regional, and the FIRST Championship.

Team 254 is sponsored by NASA Ames Research Center, BAE Systems, Ooyala, Gilbert Spray Coat, Pacific Coast Metal, Modern Machine, Polytec Products, S&S Welding, Good Plastics, Vivid-Hosting, Lumenetix, Arteris, Alta Energy, The Kumar Family, The Schnoor Family, Central Concrete, and Bellarmine College Preparatory.

Nice beautiful robot as always.
I particularly like the bolded above. Comes in handy when trying to unload the last set of 4 discs with less than 5 seconds left.

Beautiful as always, 254.

One question - how many discs can you hold? At your practice day, it seemed like you were only long enough to hold two.

[ablatner]

Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence

Beautiful as always, 254.

One question - how many discs can you hold? At your practice day, it seemed like you were only long enough to hold two.

They have a dual level conveyor. There's a neat little flipper that moves between the two.

[Jrat47]

Always amazing cant wait to see you guys in St Louis!

[NXTGeek]

Whoever CADded your DDI arm had way too much fun
Thanks for signing up for SD guys!

[Jrat47]

Do you guys have a video?

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Jrat47

Do you guys have a video?

Nope. We didn't have time before ship and our practice bot has too many bare metal parts on it right now

[joelg236]

Like it?

[dcarr]

Originally Posted by joelg236

Like it?

That's cool! This has given me a cool idea for something to try later this year when we actually have time to take some nice photos. Just wondering if that background is supposed to be a gradient or if the banding is intentional? Like it either way.