This report details the design, construction and performance of (team 188) Woburn Robotics' 2004 drivetrain. It featured six driving motors (Bosch, CIM and Fisher-Price) and a two-speed transmission (using pneumatically actuated shifting dogs). The robot, Blizzard 5, was capable of a top speed of a...
this is our team handbook that lays out the operations of the group to new members.
Thanks to team 45 for posting their handbook and giving us something to work with and my crew of team leaders who rewrote much of it to suit our team's needs.
I hope it helps. Also check out the FIRST RINOS ...
In 2003, Jay Tenbrink of the Martians asked me to write an article about batteries for their team. This is the article with some updates for 2004. It contains info on common problems with electrical design and discusses in depth the SLA battery used to power FIRST Robots. If you ever have questio...
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The Who'sCTEKS present their 2004 Dual Speed Dual Motor Gearbox. This design is a refinement of their 2003 Dual Speed run during the 2003 off-season. It uses the CIM and Bosch Motors and can be built as a single motor gearbox.
This is a spreadsheet containing the results for IRI.
The data for each match is repeated 4 times, once for each team in that match. That way, you can load the file into a database, sort it by team#, and find the total scores and QP's for each team.
The enclosed document details case studies of university participation in FIRST. This version augments an earlier version of this pubicaiton with a new set of university examples. The document was distributed at Woodie Flowers plenary talk at the American Society for Engineering Education on June ...
This is the 2nd supplement to the 2004 IRI information document.
This supplement includes the application details for the 2nd IRI scholarship. This scholarship is only open to teams 45, 234 and 393 members. (Scholarship 1 is open to everyone except these 3 teams.)
This is the Techno-Gremlins code from 2004. Some features:
* Multi-autons, selected by OI.
* Multi-positioning pnuematics system.
* feedback loops.
* Arm safties
- Length limit switch and pot limit
- Hand current (Will reset if reversed)
* Gyro
* Quadrature
* Desensitized joystic...
Describes the 'SimSwerve' omnidirectional drive system used by Simbotics (Team 1114) in 2004. It includes an overview of the theory behind omnidirectional drive (with pseudocode), a description of various possible designs, and a detailed description of the design used. See the discussion thread fo...
This is a form that RAGE distributed to our students, engineers, adult mentors and chaperones this year. We hope to gather feedback to improve the team via this form and subsequent interviews with each team member. Thank you to all the teams who gave us suggestions for this process!
Instructions for building a battery changer cabinet. Cabinets holds up to 6 batteries and chargers and has optional panel meters to monitor the health of each battery and a battery load tester.
This document contains the entire code for team #115's Global Positioning System, which uses four IR sensors mounted on servos in order to determine the robot's exact position and orientation, along with an error function which gives an estimate of the confidence in the given values. The walkthro...
This is the essay CHAOS 131 submitted for the Woodie Flowers Award about David Kelso. He was the winner for the BAE regional and is the 2004 Woodie Flowers Award Winner!
It's been discussed in the forum, but here's my white paper-y attempt to lay out what a ribbon system for FIRST would entail. Everything from the awards to their uses are in this white paper, probably the most colorful one in a while!
I don't hate many things, but time-wasting and false dilemmas are amongst the few. - Manoel [more] 
