18-02-2004 23:02

Tyler Olds

Re: pic: 179 Swampthing 2k4

Very impressive, as always the green looks super cool!

Is the little piece of metal in front a goal grabber?

18-02-2004 23:04

dez250

Re: pic: 179 Swampthing 2k4

Lets ask another question, is that still pvc or is it now a piece of metal... Tytus, Great robot again and i can wait to see an updatyed video of this bot since the video a few weeks ago...

18-02-2004 23:09

Swampdude

Re: pic: 179 Swampthing 2k4

Yes it's a simple piston actuated goal grabber, work great. And there's video from tonight posted on the front page of our website http://www.179swampthing.org/
bottom right corner link.

18-02-2004 23:21

Tytus Gerrish

Re: pic: 179 Swampthing 2k4

Its Just The Old Polly Vynel Chloride pipe With black Paint . theyre great because we can make a dozzen of them witl verry little cost and be able to replace them when they get Krunched

18-02-2004 23:22

Tyler Olds

Re: pic: 179 Swampthing 2k4

Wow! How fast does your bot go?? It zoomed accross the field!

19-02-2004 00:52

Hinkel Y.

Re: pic: 179 Swampthing 2k4

Nice robot... I see you're gonna use window motors to move the 2x ball and globes to move the arms... But the thing that puzzles me is the use of the van door motor, which I supose is to somehow with some device go up on the 10ft pull up bar.
There's a question though, does the arm have enough strength that the globe motors won't stall or backwind when lifting up the 3 pound 2x ball?

19-02-2004 01:35

pras870

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Once again, a very impressive robot by 179. It only gets better every year, I love it!

19-02-2004 07:12

Gabe Salas Jr.

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Nice robot, and I'm glad you guys are going to Nationals this year. I kind of expected a super POed robot from you guys this year, since last year's robot took up the entire ramp and is constently angrified.

19-02-2004 09:12

Mark Jones

Re: pic: 179 Swampthing 2k4

Looks like you reverse engineered the 312 machine from 2001.

See it here: http://www.firstrobotics.net/01galle.../312-1_jpg.htm

19-02-2004 15:44

Tyler Olds

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Might look like that, but I highly doubt they had that in mind. Many bots will have similar design, but will most likely not be identical.

19-02-2004 18:39

Rod

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If it runs as good as it looks, you guys will do great

19-02-2004 18:41

Dan Richardson

Re: pic: 179 Swampthing 2k4

they did.. yet they changed and who knows .. mayb improved a few things

Instead of the smaller drills from 3 years ago they used the globes.. and at the top they used the windows

very impressive guys :-)

I'm sure your going to have a very industrial grade and very competitive robot this year

Dan

19-02-2004 18:48

Stephen Kowski

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actually they said the design was inspired by 312 in earlier posts....either way it looks like one heck of a good job....gl with it....

19-02-2004 18:57

Koko Ed

Re: pic: 179 Swampthing 2k4

How does it climb the stairs? Those wheels look awfully small.

19-02-2004 20:18

JoeXIII'007

Re: pic: 179 Swampthing 2k4

OK.
It's green.
It runs on batteries, no gas.
It's a earth-friendly green machine. LOL :-)
Nice job on the bot.

22-02-2004 21:30

Amanda 179

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The pvc is great at lifting the balls and the motors do just fine. we cant drive up the stairs, our wheels are only 6 inches, but we can get up onto the platform if we use the arm. It runs like a dreamy swamp thing.

22-02-2004 21:31

jacob_dilles

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nice paint!!!!

29-02-2004 15:28

Swampdude

Re: pic: 179 Swampthing 2k4

http://www.179swampthing.org/images/...%20vid%201.avi

Hanging is very painful to watch! 10' what were they thinking?

29-02-2004 15:45

jacob_dilles

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...ouch thats gotta hurt

29-02-2004 16:12

dez250

Re: pic: 179 Swampthing 2k4

as i said before, all i can do is sit here and be glorified by the success of Team 179. Each year they pull out a great machine and it works pretty well. Once again Congrads go out to Tytus and all of Team 179!

29-02-2004 17:45

Tytus Gerrish

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ive got to hand it to amanda for learning to operate that arm so quickely and so well makes my job Much easier all i have to do it make it go and fix it when it breaks. I cant wait for UCF

29-02-2004 18:06

edomus

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Is anyone else not able to play the movie?

29-02-2004 18:23

dez250

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You need a codec plugin to view it, i will try to post a link to a downloadable area for a working codec.

29-02-2004 20:22

Arefin Bari

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awesome job swampthing... cant wait till i see that robot in person...

tytus... i knew that you guys would come up with something competitive this year when you have first talked me before the kick off!

29-02-2004 20:34

J Flex 188

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loooks great guys, really im impressed with your ability to lift and move with the 2x ball so effortlessly. a questionL was the first 15 seconds where you took the 2x and managed to knock down the 10 pt bonus all in autonomous mode, or was anyone controlling it?

im just as impressed as last year =D!!!

29-02-2004 20:59

Swampdude

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No that was controlled, but we do have autonomous working good. We can get the 10x ball or grab the 2x and bring the goal back. "But" there's a second arm we shipped 1/2 done. We're going to catch all the trough balls if our alliance partner has a bot like ours. The idea being during seeding we can switch out the arms depending on who we're allied with. But in the finals when there's 3 of us and say 2 are like ours and 1 is a ball catcher. We can perform either function as needed to compliment the other, while still being able to hang.

29-02-2004 21:21

Jonathan M.

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Another SC team has ball grippers like those too. Interesting how one design can be so significan't many years later. I've actually seen some direct replicas of ball grappers from 2001's game this year. But anyway, Swampthing, you have an awesome robot again this year. Good luck, and see you at UCF!

Can you make wieght with both arms at the same time? Becuase there's a rule that says you can't have modular parts, and that everything that goes on the robot has to be weighed at the same time and be under 130 lbs.

29-02-2004 22:05

Tytus Gerrish

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oh thats right, dan compressed it in divx format

the codec can be found here http://download.divx.com/divx/DivX511.exe

29-02-2004 22:06

Swampdude

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Yah actually our bot weighs 118, and the second arm is only a couple pounds :-)

29-02-2004 22:11

Jonathan M.

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Wow that's awesome. You have not stopped impressing me yet! Good luck at competition! (not that I think you'll be needing too much of it)