Team 1625 Introduces their 2011 Robot: Mr. Cringerpants

[Carrington]

Mr. Cringerpants

10 Wheel Timing Belt Driven Lobster Drive

Custom 2 speed gearbox with 3 motors

Single jointed, telescoping, 4 bar arm with a wrist

3 Position Roller Claw

Minibot and minibot deploy not shown (It's a surprise )

[Drivencrazy]

Looks great guys! Another innovative drive-train implementation and once again I'm impressed. Care to elaborate or point me to somewhere to show me how it works?

[Akash Rastogi]

Being reminded of why 1625 is my favorite team in FRC- priceless.

That drivetrain. You crazy.

[Grim Tuesday]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but do you guys have TWO drivetrains? One for forward/back, and another for strafing?

I am at a loss for words due to awesomness.

[Chris is me]

I have no idea how it works and I'm not sure if I am better off keeping it that way or not.

How do the strafing wheels come into play?

Why telescope instead of a higher arm joint?

Why is your arm joint a four bar kind of thing I'm so confused

WHY HAVE YOU TURNED MY WHOLE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN THE DAY BEFORE SHIP AGAIN

[Blackphantom91]

That's pretty beastly, Good job guys.

[sportzkrazzy]

Cant wait to see this thing in action great looking bot.

[thefro526]

Impressive.

Any videos of this thing in action? I'm really curious about how well your drive works.

[Racer26]

Seems to me like 1625's "lobster" drive shown here, is a relative of 148/217's Slide drive (Nonadrive) from 2010, at least in how it works. It looks to me like the strafing wheels are actuated up and down to lift the other 6 traction wheels off the carpet.

[BBnum3]

Looks ridiculously awesome as usual.

Telescoping arm + roller claw remind anyone else of 233 in 2007? If that's any sign of things to come. . . well, watch out!

[JesseK]

I get how the lobster actuation works (downright ingenious imo) -- the front/rear wheels are the rotation axes for the lateral wheels. Yet what really blows my mind is how the belt running between the two lateral wheels ('lobster wheels' ?) doesn't get eaten when the robot turns in place during normal operation. Is there a differential not shown?

Awesome work!

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by JesseK

I get how the lobster actuation works (downright ingenious imo) -- the front/rear wheels are the rotation axes for the lateral wheels. Yet what really blows my mind is how the belt running between the two lateral wheels ('lobster wheels' ?) doesn't get eaten when the robot turns in place during normal operation. Is there a differential not shown?

I'm hazarding a guess that the left gearbox is chained to the front wheels and the right gearbox is chained to the back, or something similar.

[JesseK]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

I'm hazarding a guess that the left gearbox is chained to the front wheels and the right gearbox is chained to the back, or something similar.

Ahh, that would do it.

[Brandon Holley]

Looking good 1625! Your robot definitely has a unique look and feel to it. I'm excited to see how you do in competition, and how fast that minibot makes it up the bar

-Brando

[vigkvagkv2]

Glad I'm not going against that anytime soon.