MOEmentum: Week 5 - "Break Robot. Re-engineer. Repeat."

[Mr MOE]

Week 5 ALREADY!?!?!?!?!

Question of the week - who has inflicted some serious damage to their robot during driving / functionality testing?

MOEmentum: Week 5 "Break Robot. Re-engineer. Repeat" is updated and ready for reading.

Enjoy.

http://www.moe365.org/moementum6.php

[Rich Kressly]

Woo hooo ... finally, 1712 is ahead!
We've been breaking stuff and shredding balls since the very beginning.

[Alan Anderson]

We haven't broken anything on the robot yet, but we did peel up a corner of diamond plate during our first tests climbing the ramp.

[IraJason]

Originally Posted by Rich Kressly

Woo hooo ... finally, 1712 is ahead!
We've been breaking stuff and shredding balls since the very beginning.

Those poor balls... we barely knew thee...

Nothing like coming in the next day and finding out that what you made didn't cut it. But then again, you get to do the whole thing over again! Yippee!

[Rick TYler]

My prediction: fixing ball jamming problems will be this year's top last-minute build project.

[Barry Bonzack]

So some genius (me) on 1604 got steel C channel for our conveyorbelt system. After finishing the assemble and realizing we are going to be about 30 some pounds overweight, we are trying again with aluminum c channel.

[petek]

Uh oh - now I'm starting to worry. We must be really falling behind because a) we haven't broken the robot yet*, and b) we aren't overweight!

* (shhh, don't tell anyone our secret for not breaking the robot: keep changing things so the drivers never get a chance to break it.)

[aaeamdar]

Un for tun ate ly... don't get me started, but our robot is not yet done. Once it is done, I expect, since it goes relatively fast and we don't have a large space, we will be crashing it all over the place.

[Mr MOE]

Originally Posted by petek

Uh oh - now I'm starting to worry. We must be really falling behind because a) we haven't broken the robot yet*, and b) we aren't overweight!

* (shhh, don't tell anyone our secret for not breaking the robot: keep changing things so the drivers never get a chance to break it.)

Jeez, Pete. If 103's bot isn't overweight yet, start adding some unlightening holes and thicken up those structural materials. It's not a proper FIRST season if you don't have a robo-diet before ship date!

-j-

[petek]

Ahhh... I needn't have worried - we found a bunch of places to add too much weight tonight. Still haven't given the drivers enough opportunity to break things, but maybe if we time it right, they'll break it real good with just hours to ship.

[ForgottenSalad]

Heh, no robot to break yet. Still waiting on getting the part back that we had milled.

As far as the prototypes... Damaged two limit switches on the prototype turret and our shooter won't run without popping breakers... Needless to say, not good.

We're late but somehow we'll get it done...

[Anime-niac_2.9]

we haven't put the entire robot together just yet, but last saturday electronics was tinkering with something. within the first fifteen minutes of our meeting there was a loud, sparkly sound like someone lit off firecrackers in the middle of class. It was two of the fans. According to them there was dust and, until yesterday, our cooling system was down by fifty percent.

[Master Dictator]

1. We have not damaged our robot yet, although we hit a concrete wall and smashed the wall up.
2. the weight issue we are only weighting in at 60 pounds so far. lol
3. No major injuries to teammates just the daily cuts and scraps.

[Darkswordsmith]

uh...we broke the transmission once already, apparently we forgot to put in one woodruff key per gearbox

anyways, dont u just hate it when everyone's trying to wire at the same time and it becomes a big mess?!?!

For some reason even though i havnt broke anything (yet), everyone on my team blame me for ANY failures...anyone can explain this?

[NullTerminator]

We are LUCKY to have not damaged anything while we tested our base. We were going more than our expected speed because the robot had barely any load on it. Our electronics were mounted on the top of the frame with a few clamps holding them on

One of the programmers made the bot go full speed forward and then full speed back immediately(no coast), and it flipped, ELECTRONICS FACE DOWN

Luckily my battery mount frame stuck out the top a little and prevented anything but itself from hitting the ground.