610 Presents: Stingray

[Matthew Lang]

Hi CD,

Over the past 3 days, Jordan Grant and Jacob Kachura, two seniors on 610, have worked tirelessly to produce this reveal video for our robot, Stingray.

EDIT: New link with minor modifications

Lots of thanks to our mentors for their patience and perseverance over the past six weeks. We will be competing at GTRW, North Bay, and Championships (pre-qualifying from last season).

Feel free to ask questions, we will answer them all this time.

[jsasaki]

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[Akash Rastogi]

That intake is one of the best I've seen so far.

Very impressive everything, including a great video and a great song!

Best of luck!

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

Very impressive everything, including a great video and a great song!

Seconded. This is a video, like 118's last year, that I could picture being shown on MTV. Great work.

[n1ckd2012]

Most impressive!

Can you provide some insight as to why chose your collector design over a BoomDone collector?

Is your catapult cocked and released with a 550 and a giant Cam?

[wilsonmw04]

interesting song choice for a school based team.

[Jay O'Donnell]

So far, this is my favorite robot that I've seen from the reveal videos. Very creative intake design.

[cmrnpizzo14]

Welp, there back.

Great bot, I love the huge cradle you have on the catapult. I'm assuming it catches very well because of it. Looks like it has solid drivers as usual.

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

interesting song choice for a school based team.

Well, they censored it pretty well.

Seriously, that's a verrrrry nice robot. You can tell just from the video the care and precision that went into every aspect.

Can't wait to see it at competition.

[kenavt]

Are you guys using CAN for control again this year?

[jamierose]

Originally Posted by kenavt

Are you guys using CAN for control again this year?

Unlike in previous years, we have zero Jaguars or Victors this year. We only have Talons.

[kenavt]

Originally Posted by jamierose

Unlike in previous years, we have zero Jaguars or Victors this year. We only have Talons.

Can you talk about the process behind making that decision? 610 was very successful running CAN in the past, I'm curious why you would leave it.

[Rob Stehlik]

I'm not the best person to answer this question, but my understanding is we moved away from Jaguars because they are huge, and we weren't happy with the built in PID implementation, so there was little incentive to use them. Last year the programmers got much better speed control doing it in software.

[Racer26]

Originally Posted by Rob Stehlik

I'm not the best person to answer this question, but my understanding is we moved away from Jaguars because they are huge, and we weren't happy with the built in PID implementation, so there was little incentive to use them. Last year the programmers got much better speed control doing it in software.

Jaguars are huge in comparison to Victors/Talons. They also seem to be less robust when it comes to surviving the harsh environment of metal shavings we put them through.

Really, the only thing they have going for them is the CAN bus. For 2014's game? Many robots are cramped for space.

[Chowmaster4695]

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

interesting song choice for a school based team.

Its ok because that is the version they play on the airwaves! Plus who doesn't like Kanye? Great robot also.