Team 61 2004 robot

[Mike Norton]

http://www.valleytech.k12.ma.us/robo...photos2004.htm

Pictures will be posted daily on or web site.

If you have any question on any piece please e-mail and I will try to get a better picture or I will explain it.

[157#1Driver]

where do you get them rims for the tracks?

[Mike Norton]

Originally Posted by 157#1Driver

where do you get them rims for the tracks?

We made them from the Breco Flex pulleys.

We have a Junior named Eric in Drafting that designed them and brought them across the hall to the machine shop and had them cut out. He does all the programing of the CNC and Bridgeport machines.

[Arefin Bari]

i like those rims... those are sweeeeet.... great job guys...

[BillyGoats]

Originally Posted by expiredzbyte

i like those rims... those are sweeeeet.... great job guys...

Thanks

[Nick Mac]

Those are really cool. Were they extremely hard to do? They look so perfect in the pictures.

[BillyGoats]

Originally Posted by Nick Mac

Those are really cool. Were they extremely hard to do? They look so perfect in the pictures.

Well the advantage of going to a tech school is that you have a machine shop and drafting shop that can work on it all day, it was drawn out in drafting in CAD and then brought across the hall to machine shop where they programed it in to one of the drills.

So to answer your question where they hard to make, in some ways yes it was and some ways it was not.

[Alaina]

Is that a wooden bot I see? A very snazzy wooden bot? What made you choose wood? My team had a wooden bot last year but that was because we didn't have access to a machine shop but it seems you are working in one...
Good choice, never the less...

[BillyGoats]

Originally Posted by Alaina

Is that a wooden bot I see? A very snazzy wooden bot? What made you choose wood? My team had a wooden bot last year but that was because we didn't have access to a machine shop but it seems you are working in one...
Good choice, never the less...

Check out all of our previous robots, all wood even tho some may not look like it. We use the same base every year. It has been proven to take a beating and keep going, never once had a problem with a base. Again going to a tech school has it's perks all we have to do it go down to Carpentry and they do it out for us. The only changes you may see is the front slots cut out so we are able to go up a ramp or another type of task.

Here is an example of one that does not look wooden but it is.

http://www.valleytech.k12.ma.us/robo...photos2002.htm

[Solace]

Originally Posted by Alaina

Is that a wooden bot I see? A very snazzy wooden bot? What made you choose wood? My team had a wooden bot last year but that was because we didn't have access to a machine shop but it seems you are working in one...
Good choice, never the less...

hey, don't be dissing the plywood! there are a few cool looking plywood bots around. remember this one or this one? Our team has access to a machine shop, yet we also go with the wooden chassis every year.

[SpaceOsc]

Originally Posted by Solace

hey, don't be dissing the plywood! there are a few cool looking plywood bots around. remember this one or this one? Our team has access to a machine shop, yet we also go with the wooden chassis every year.

2003 RAGE 173 bot Was Made out of WOOD?

[Tom Bottiglieri]

hey solace.. dont be forgettin about the cyber knights .. ck2003 ..well we used baltic birch which was pretty much indestructable. Yes, it is heavy and expensive lol, but we never had a problem with it in 4 years.

[JVN]

Originally Posted by SpaceOsc

2003 RAGE 173 bot Was Made out of WOOD?

Rage has built their chassis out of wood for several years now. (At least as far back as 1999 I believe). They do a heck of a job, and prove to all of us "metal heads" that timber can be competitive too!

JVN

[Jon K.]

Originally Posted by SpaceOsc

2003 RAGE 173 bot Was Made out of WOOD?

Yeah we have quite a few wood bases from over the years and other random mechanisms just lying around our shop. I think the plywood goes back even further then 99' not sure though. We have a lot of pictures and I will go through them to see when it started if I can, but we also have a few people who were there when the team started 10 years ago so I will ask them too. Also we have only ever had one problem with the plywood breaking as far as I know and that was at last years UTC New England Regional. I will have to find a pic of it somewhere and post it up here if it isn't already. This is one of the bot while being fixed.
this is the other one

[Solace]

Originally Posted by SpaceOsc

2003 RAGE 173 bot Was Made out of WOOD?

as far as memory serves, the RAGE bot has always been made out of wood.

and to 814, i remeber you from nationals. I will never forget what we have affectionately termed the "couch-bot".