28-06-2011 02:44

R.C.

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Hands down some of the coolest FRC Robots of 2009-2011. 2009 is especially my all time favorite for that year.

Congratulations on winning the 2011 FRC Championship, it was great working with you guys this year. Can't wait to see the 2012 Proto and 2012 Robot!

*On a side note, I really want to thank 973 for helping 1323 gain more sponsors, become a better team and for also helping us throughout the past few years*

-RC

28-06-2011 03:24

Akash Rastogi

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Ah, Raptor, one of my all-time favorites. Great to see more CAD from you, Adam. This year's been great, seeing 973 get the recognition it deserves is just awesome. I know RC and I are thankful for how much you've helped us in the past few years as well. Thanks for the CAD.

28-06-2011 23:28

BrendanB

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Ahh, 973 just has a way with producing some wicked fine california robots!

29-06-2011 00:32

robodude03

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I loved Raptor! It was tough losing to you guys at LA that year and it taught us a lot about how to play the game. Honestly you guys taught us how to win and led us to our first regional win that year.

I always look forward to checking out 973's bot during the regional competition. We will definitely be trying out some of your designs in the off season. See you at IRI

04-01-2012 03:43

craigboez

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Great robots, and thanks for posting all the CAD. I certainly don't expect anybody to give away so much information, but am very grateful for it.

I assume the rack on your 2011 proto bot was custom, given it's look and your team's track record of making their own gears. Would you mind giving some tips on how you do this? What kind of equipment and sponsorship does a team need to successfully cut their own spur gears and racks? Just putting something like this on a robot is prohibitively expensive for most teams.

Also, kudos for putting two gears on the CIM shaft. Great idea/design.

04-01-2012 05:05

Aren Siekmeier

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Originally Posted by craigboez Great robots, and thanks for posting all the CAD. I certainly don't expect anybody to give away so much information, but am very grateful for it. I assume the rack on your 2011 proto bot was custom, given it's look and your team's track record of making their own gears. Would you mind giving some tips on how you do this? What kind of equipment and sponsorship does a team need to successfully cut their own spur gears and racks? Just putting something like this on a robot is prohibitively expensive for most teams. Also, kudos for putting two gears on the CIM shaft. Great idea/design.

04-01-2012 13:05

AdamHeard

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The rack gears are cut on a conventional waterjet. Most waterjets should be able to cut such features, just with varying quality/taper.

Some parts got lost in the conversion to .step, one of which was the hex sleeve we pressed onto the CIM shaft to accommodate both gears.

09-05-2012 07:42

nick_sheets

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We saw the 2012 greybot: Encore at the central valley regional. It was such an amazing robot, we were wondering if the CAD of it was going to be released?

Very impressive robot!

09-05-2012 12:49

AdamHeard

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Originally Posted by nick_sheets We saw the 2012 greybot: Encore at the central valley regional. It was such an amazing robot, we were wondering if the CAD of it was going to be released? Very impressive robot!

22-05-2013 20:41

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Are there any plans to release the CAD file for Hurricane?

22-05-2013 20:45

AdamHeard

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Yes, at some point we will get Hurricane and Encore posted.

06-07-2013 23:37

AdamHeard

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Added the drivetrain for Hurricane. We'll get something cleaned up and posted for the entire bot sometime down the road.

This CAD is pretty accurate for our drive, but doesn't show that we switched to 6" wheels down the road. We changed the gearing of the gearbox (kept the same plates) during this switch. We also had a kickup cylinder (dropped a ballcaster to the floor on one end) to get out of T-bone pins.

I have two .zips for Encore that aren't working in terms of uploading, I talked to Brandon about it and I'm sure we'll get it worked out.

30-07-2016 19:23

AdamHeard

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Adding more robots here...
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/f...DFYcWJQLXVoSjg

2015 and 2016 are up, will get 2012-2014, 2013 offseason, and Skystalker-er up at some point too.

31-07-2016 13:28

AllenGregoryIV

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Awesome, thanks Adam

01-08-2016 09:58

tim-tim

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Thanks for providing all of these great resources for teams.

On a side note, did you ever post the RAMP files that were used in the videos? A group of my students are working through the videos, but we haven't been able to find the files anywhere. The videos are really great. The students have learned a lot from them, and I even learned quite a bit.

01-08-2016 10:27

JesseK

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That is an impressive set of frame gussets in each corner of the robot. Thank you for the release!