[Ri3D] Team Indiana Presents: Veronica

[Ben Martin]

Originally Posted by Kevin Leonard

Can you give some examples of how the wear affected shot performance? How much wear are we talking about?
That makes me nervous. 5254 and 20 haven't tested with worn balls yet because both teams have only one ball right now.

If I was to guess, it was somewhere around 50 shots. We dialed in the prototype shooter until it worked with one ball, then we tried another ball, which flew completely over the goal.

The foam directly under the skin "crumples" slightly after many shots. You can feel the difference when you squish them by hand.

[slhs]

What was the length of each pieces of the double jointed arm?

[rzoeller]

Originally Posted by Ben Martin

The foam directly under the skin "crumples" slightly after many shots. You can feel the difference when you squish them by hand.

So the curse of 2012 strikes again. Hopefully FIRST doesn't decide to source from a new manufacturer midway through the season this year as well.

[Nathan Streeter]

Originally Posted by Ben Martin

If I was to guess, it was somewhere around 50 shots. We dialed in the prototype shooter until it worked with one ball, then we tried another ball, which flew completely over the goal.

The foam directly under the skin "crumples" slightly after many shots. You can feel the difference when you squish them by hand.

Did you discuss the impact of used balls vs fresh balls elsewhere on a video that we could go back and reference?

How much compression were you getting on your balls? (distance from shooter wheel surface to curved backplate)

Thank you for your insights! :-)

[BoilerMentor]

Originally Posted by nxtmonkeys

Can you make it jump-hang?

This question makes me want to run the math for the situation where the Shovel the fries™, is in the middle position to find the speed the robot would have to carry to make it to the bar...

Originally Posted by evanperryg

Once again, probably the best Ri3D team. You guys have set the standard for a strong Stronghold robot. Do you have CAD for the bot you can post? I'm curious to see how you got that shooter crammed in there.

Thanks. We'll be posting a 3D pdf as well as some other resources, but not a full CAD.

[swicki]

Originally Posted by BoilerMentor

Thanks. We'll be posting a 3D pdf as well as some other resources, but not a full CAD.

Any update on the 3D pdf?

[PurpleInk]

The 3D PDF is ready!

You will need to download it and open it IN ADOBE to view it properly.

Check it out HERE

-Team Indiana

[kbuford2000]

Hi PurpleINK,

THe PDF that was posted opens as a blank document with the SOLID WORKS statement at the bottom of the document. Do i need a special viewer for this PDF?


Thanks

[xhantari]

Originally Posted by kbuford2000

Hi PurpleINK,

THe PDF that was posted opens as a blank document with the SOLID WORKS statement at the bottom of the document. Do i need a special viewer for this PDF?


Thanks

Are you opening it in your web browser, or with Adobe? You have to download it and open it with Adobe reader to be able to enable the 3D content.

[PurpleInk]

Originally Posted by kbuford2000

Hi PurpleINK,

THe PDF that was posted opens as a blank document with the SOLID WORKS statement at the bottom of the document. Do i need a special viewer for this PDF?


Thanks

If you just click the link, the image will display as a blank paper that says Solid Works at the bottom. That is because it 'opens' in google drive which cannot support the 3D format.

At the top of that page, you'll need to click the 'Download' button. It looks like an arrow pointing down towards a line.

Once it has downloaded, simply open it.

I hope this helps!

[Logan Byers]

Originally Posted by Jacob Paikoff

Great looking robot, I would expect nothing less from Team Indiana.

Why did you guys decide not to scale?

Hanging/Scaling was our lowest priority after analyzing the scoring breakdown. There's plenty of space and weight to add a climbing mechanism if we had had more time.

[evanperryg]

Once again, probably the best Ri3D team. You guys have set the standard for a strong Stronghold robot. Do you have CAD for the bot you can post? I'm curious to see how you got that shooter crammed in there.