27-01-2003 02:17

Sachiel7

Well, this is the latest teaser from tem # 1132, tell us what you think!

27-01-2003 10:58

Gadget470

what is ther to think? It's a piece of sheet metal with cuts for gears. Not much else we can say at this time.

27-01-2003 11:37

AdamT

can we say "heavy"?

27-01-2003 11:40

Gadget470

depending on what that is being used for it can probably be cheesed

27-01-2003 16:49

Ianworld

Its time to start thinking of nice patterns to put on your robot.

27-01-2003 16:57

Sachiel7

That metal is High Carbonite Steel. It's actually not that heavy.
When we put all four of these peices together they only weighed 16 lbs.
Our Chassis, with driving capibilities is going to be less than 30 lbs as well.

27-01-2003 18:49

AJ Quick

Well.. what is it?

Is it the bottom of the chassis? Or some special mechanism?

27-01-2003 19:22

Sachiel7

It's part of one of our mechanisms...

27-01-2003 19:25

Duke 13370

That's not much of a teaser, but what's it for?

27-01-2003 19:32

Sachiel7

Like I said, It's one of our mechanisms, and if you look around some of the other threads you should be able to figure it out. We don't want to give it all away, because I beleive we are about 1 in three teams I've heard of so far that has a mechanism that can do what ours does (and I don't mean It's main function).
It's hard to explain, so just try to figure it out yourself...

27-01-2003 19:38

sanddrag

I wish my team would let me do work as hack as that. Nice

Seriously, you can build a nicely functioning robot with absolutely no precision. It's totally possible.

27-01-2003 20:19

Jeremy_Mc

30 lbs? with a battery?

can that even be hit with a toothpick?

*jeremy

27-01-2003 21:08

Dave

Ooh... ohh... THEY'RE WINGS!!! Our team is doing something like that, but too much stress on the motors... soooooo we used pneumatics... if you already have a system they're less weight...
Guess what? our frame is 48 pounds driveable... it's made out of reduntant extruded aluminum, and supported a grand total of.... 600 POOOUUUUNNDDDSSSSS!!!! (4 team members) I liiiiiiiike. yes yes.... plated with lexan, it should be niiiiice. I like lots.
ah well, what have you.... good luck with your blocks of wings, I'm glad mine has more finess. and they doooo support 'bouts 200 pounds apiece... haw haw haw... for a third year team we're not doin' too badly.
hope our treads don't rip, though... (eep!)
Good luck to ya'!

27-01-2003 22:30

Sachiel7

Nope, sorry, this is not a picture of horizontal "wings" of any sort...
The 30 lbs does not inclue the controls/battery (about 13.5 lbs) so I guess we're really like around 45 or so...
We made our Chassis out of the aluminum drive components in the kit. Cut 'em down the center and got 4 C sections of aluminum. We're going to get it welded, but for now it's bolted together (very nicely so...)
And, we are (technically) a "Rookie" team, but some of our members (like me!) have done first before

27-01-2003 22:35

Solace

27-01-2003 22:39

Sachiel7

Heh
Well, I guess we know their poll entry into "What really Fuels your Robot"

27-01-2003 22:47

Dave

hoo hoo... yiss... yiss my precious, we have been working on our precious, shtoopid fat little hobbitses wants to slow the work, but noo... we work in the creepy crawly darkness..... we will show them, yiss, yiss... smeagol will show them...
No, but seriously I'm just really hyped up from working nonstop on the robot, our team is about 4 members... so we've all been working really hard.
heh ... yeah. we put an espresso machine in the garage we're working in.. WOOO HOOOO!!!

27-01-2003 23:04

Sachiel7

yeah, our team was like that last year. Three guys workin' in a garage for three days straight...only bout' 2 hrs. of sleep...
I remember those days... (dryes eyes)
-sniffle-
Ugh, well, um...
Anyway!
I'll see if we can't put out another teaser that might give a few more clues to this "secret device" we have going here.
Or mabie some pics of our Drive system...
We'll see.

27-01-2003 23:19

AJ Quick

27-01-2003 23:28

LBK Rules

27-01-2003 23:38

Sachiel7

I'll say that the strategy of the main function of this device is common this year, but we have so many sub-strategy capabilities that we can practically do anything, no kidding.

28-01-2003 08:33

Josh Hambright

looks like a stage lift to me.