how far have you gotten on your robot?

[gondorf]

my team...well...um... we opened the box and umm... we put together the kitbot sort of and umm... i dont know what else we did

how far have other teams gotten?

[gondorf]

if yo didnt use the kitbot what did you use? i mean there is the costs and the design and the kitbot is simple. please explain ow you can make something other that a kitbot with the KOP

[Mike Martus]

Originally Posted by gondorf

if yo didnt use the kitbot what did you use? i mean there is the costs and the design and the kitbot is simple. please explain ow you can make something other that a kitbot with the KOP

You can purchase Alum stock from many sources and make a frame that is lighter and custom to your application. It really is not that hard.

[gondorf]

good point.

unfortunutely we arent able to get mor alum so we are stuck using kitbot.

we are still working on trying to make the motors work and i just found out that wheels cant be chemically treater for traction.

my school has problems with their robot

which brings up another question: have you had problems with your robot/prototype? i mean something like blowing up or smoking. our motors started to smoke

[sciguy125]

The chassis design is pretty much complete. The environmental manipulators have gone through concept and are going into design.

We're far behind schedule, but doing very well compared to last year... The design deadline has been pushed back 4 days.

We also had time to play with some proof-of-concept prototypes and looked at a bunch of commercial ball throwing devices.

[gondorf]

i remember the vex robots last year. my schools vex robot blew up and part of the team had scratches and burns.

remember to wear your safety glasses

just had to say that

[BuddyB309]

Originally Posted by gondorf

i remember the vex robots last year. my schools vex robot blew up and the entire team had scratches and burns.

remember to wear your safety glasses

just had to say that

Wow! tell me in detail how you got that to happen!

[Reyner]

We have hardly even finished the chassis of the kitbot, but that's because we took a week off for exams.

[BuddyB309]

Originally Posted by Reyner

We have hardly even finished the chassis of the kitbot, but that's because we took a week off for exams.

I'm so glad our schools exams are befor break.

[Tim Delles]

which brings up another question: have you had problems with your robot/prototype? i mean something like blowing up or smoking. our motors started to smoke

First thing is was the robot moving. If the robot was not moving then most likely your motors were made to run opposite of each of each other. Which could cause them to blow up since they would be fighting each other.

[gondorf]

actually our robot was upside down and we were staring at it dumbfounded.

the motor was plugged in but the gear that it was attached to was stuck

and during all this i thought: dont those look like the cookies i put in the oven before school...the oven is still on...oh no!!!

Team 949 has gone through our concepts and we are now going through the designing period.

We are planning to build a prototype launcher and the target tomorrow and by next sunday we should have everything autocadded and ready for building..

Maybe we should build the kop bot.. hmm.. other than that we haven't done anything else

[robodude03]

Our team has finalized the drivetrain and several aspects of our shooter and basket. Now all that is left is to string out the details of our mechanism, which we will take care of tomorrow. I wish you all the best of luck in finishing your bots!

[robotoby35138]

did you use a gear box? If so did you remember to grease the gears.

[Daniel Morse]

Well...we know what we want it to do and have a mock up of the field (that we have to take down all the time because we don't have a space to leave it up). We are in design groups, and working as fast as possible to come up with a good design.