Wildstang Teaser Video

[Specialagentjim]

Originally Posted by ngreen

Anyway, can I borrow your robot for a day or at least a competition? Please . What are you doing April 1-3? I promise I'll give in back and I'll thank you in advance for machining all the parts on our new robot. I love that new rule.

Hey, if your a reallly unlucky rookie, and your really nice, mebe they'll let you borrow the programming bot

[ejSabathia]

shfbghlfsgvbwerubgefbgegbeirbtrewg <----my first reaction...the second was can i have it?...i just wanna drive it for like 5 minutes and i "swear" i'll give it back...anyways...i never got to give you guys props for last year's bot so...nyce job! and congrats on yet another sick machine...and i don't know who choose the background music...but i like the jay-z...nyce touch...(i know it wasn't mikey...aka... SOUP-UP..haha). anyways much love see you guys @ nationals.
~ej

[Stephen Kowski]

another wonderful wildstang bot....on another note, nice music from the grey album - DJ Danger Mouse.....

[Joel Glidden]

Impressive robot as always. Outstanding video! Great job, Ryan. Thanks for sharing this, Wildstang.

[Ian Mackenzie]

Great video of a great robot - do you have any close-up photos of the gearboxes themselves? I watched the video over and over again, and for the life of me I couldn't see how the swerve functionality was implemented.

[Dave Scheck]

Originally Posted by mzitz2k

Here are my questions:
1) Any herding capabilities?
2) How do you "store" the 2x ball on top of the machine?

1) At this point, other than pushing, not really.
2) There is no real storage on the top of the bot. I think you're refering to the section of the video that has the ball on top of the robot. That was just the small arm holding it there.

Originally Posted by The Lucas

Are you using the CIM motors to drive the (rear) wheels this year?

Yes

Originally Posted by robo hottie71

Does the "pie-pan" arm pick up the second ball?

You mean the frying pan arm? Yes, it does.

Originally Posted by ianmackenzie

do you have any close-up photos of the gearboxes themselves? I watched the video over and over again, and for the life of me I couldn't see how the swerve functionality was implemented.

The crab (swerve) modules are almost identical to last year's. The drill motors drive and the globe motor steers. Sorry, I don't really have a good picture of one.

[Soukup]

i blessed to be able to be picked by you guys last year at MR and i realized how amazing your robots are....i thought you couldn't do any better though. Specificall this year I was wondering if your robot would still have swerve and would just ignore the bar.

I was wrong.

This is amazing. Your team is truly one of the greats in FIRST, if not the greatest. I really hope you win it again this year.

I am just wondering (if you'll tell us) what your autonomous modes will be?

[tkwetzel]

Wow! Gotta love the choice of music in the background! I hope we're in the same division at nats....looks like you guys could use a ball herding alliance!

Team 33 and 111 would be a crazy impressive alliance. I was at VCU to see team 33's amazing robot win.

I love the drive system. I have seen one that goes up and down to get on the platform like yours...but is uses 3 wheels and each goes up seperatly. It is almost as sweet as that, but it isn't swerve drive. I believe it is team 225, but I could be wrong.

[Ryan Dognaux]

Great robot, great video. You guys will no doubt be a force to reckon with this year, as always

[Sandmaster]

Awesome video and a great robot as usual. I'll be sure to watch you guys at Nationals when I'm there. Good luck and I hope to see you in some awesome matches.

[Angrist]

It is team 225, and the pneumatics they use are quite nice, but they have the problem that the robot was designed for carpet driving and when they get on the platform they have no traction, causing them to skate all over the place, unable to get in position. I think they were able to hang once at VCU, but if that was due to mastering the sliding technique or because the platform lost its slickness, I am not sure... In any case, you have little to fear from them, team 111, since their suction-cup method of grabbing the 2X mult. has far too weak of a hold on the ball for a competition, and your system of being able to hold two 2X balls, which is just genius, is infinitely superior.

Oh, by the way, that robot makes ours look so humble... I'll have to see it in person at nats. I also live in fear of team 33 and 111 being united (what is up with both of those team numbers being the product of two primes, namely 3 and 11 for team 33 and 3 and 37 for team 111? What are the odds of that? Let's see, anyone know how to compute Riemann zeta functions? That kind of math is above my head...)

[Mike Soukup]

Originally Posted by Mike Soukup

Here it is, hopefully our server can handle the load.

Well, so far so good. We've pushed ~15GB of data in the past 3 days and had ~3000 requests for the videos (it would take a little more work to figure out how many of those requests actually completed successfully and I dont' have the time). We'll be competing at GLR this weekend and won't be around to monitor the traffic & transfer quota, so I removed access to the two large files. You can still get the low quality version at:

Low Quality (6 MB): http://www2.wildstang.org/2004/video...ore_v2_low.wmv

Thanks for all the positive comments everyone. We're all happy that you like the video and our robot. Stop by our pits for a closer look & to talk with us.