26-02-2004 17:16

Tom Bottiglieri

Re: pic: Here's RAGE

the hopper kind of looks reminiscant (spelling?) of your 2002 national championship bot. Nice job guys, cant wait to be your alliance partners in NJ and UTC

26-02-2004 23:34

JVN

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From what I've heard, another strong competitor from 173. We won't be making it to UTC, but hopefully I'll get the chance to see it at Nats.

Good Luck,
John

PS - Thanks for Joel...

27-02-2004 00:07

Solace

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we'll see you there. Must have been a late night at your practice field last night, with you guys just starting to take a crack at autonomous. Oh wait, that's right, you guys finished and went to bed just about 6 hours before we finally kicked the bucket. oh well, it looks good, we'll have to see you guys at NJ. hope you prepared for us, the one and only official Team RAGE Wannabe.

27-02-2004 00:25

Aidan F. Browne

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Rage must have been really tired coming down to the ship wire....

They accidentally posted a picture of a previous years bot.

Maybe after they get some sleep they could post a pic of this years'.



Aidan

27-02-2004 00:29

Solace

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hahahahahahahahahaha.

did anyone notice that they were doin extremely well at the UTC scrimmage using only last years robot?

27-02-2004 07:16

Jones571

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yea with last years bot they were able to win the scrimmage and manipulate the big balls

27-02-2004 14:46

Jon K.

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Yes this is it. Our 2004 bot. And that picture was not of a complete bot. We won't have a true picture of our robot until next week probably becuase it was shipped without having a picture taken of it done. And yes we love our rollers.

27-02-2004 16:34

Elgin Clock

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Silly Aidan, dont you know by now that Rage's robot looks the same every year??

And that's why we love them!!

27-02-2004 18:56

Jon K.

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Hey last years was different. And this year we have a new drive train so we are making more and more changes.

27-02-2004 19:57

Jones571

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I think rages modo should be "if it aint broke don't fix it" and judging by there record I don't think they have to fix much.

27-02-2004 21:05

Shu Song

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I like the bot. good luck at your comps.

27-02-2004 21:53

JVN

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Really?
What are you guys running "under the hood" this year?
Unfortunately I won't get to see it until Atlanta, and I'm curious what you've come up with.

John

27-02-2004 22:12

Jon K.

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Well I am not sure if it is really a drive train come to think of it but we are running a 6 wheel base. As you can tell I am not the most technically inclined person.

27-02-2004 22:16

Elgin Clock

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Just the guy with the massive amounts of FIRST Fuel... (Mt. Dew..) right? lol

27-02-2004 22:21

Jones571

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they are running 6 of the 6 inch skyway tiers they doubled them up in the middle and the back. they are running a basic trani with just drill motors. great for pushing power and by lowering the middle axles just a little it has greatly improved there turning

*scary i know more about there robot then they do, maybe they need to make us pay rent we are at there facility way to much

27-02-2004 23:55

Jon K.

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Like I said I know nothing really about technical stuff. I am just around the engineers enough while they are building that I get a general jist of it. Were we build is in the same room as our new CNC machine at one of the high school's so I usually get stuck deburring etc. And yes I love dew

28-02-2004 11:31

Lisa Rodriguez

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Hey, just because Jon doesn't know about the drive train doesn't mean we all don't. Yes it's 6 wheels, using only the drills, no atwoods this year. Again two speeds, blah blah blah. Yes corey, you're at our facility a LOT, but that's only because we love you. We build our robot @ our high school, but don't pay janitors, we just go when other people are there (that's the one of the reasons we like wrestlers they practice all the time) Also, the 2 rubber bands are of the rollers so they don't get streched and there are no motors on the basket yet. The basket isn't the same as 02, but looks similar in the picture, once i get better picture of the robot i'll be sure to post them, but we were REALLY tight on time, so this was the only shot we have when Jon snuck into the machine shop during school. The arm that sticking up DOES come down to fit for the begining of the matches, and it extends to about 11 feet.

That's all i can think of right now.
And no Jon, you only deburr cuz we pin you down and make you, you whined and complained so much we almost put duct tape on your mouth :-p

29-02-2004 00:18

bush173

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yea thats true, he even had to go through a little training thing just to learn how to deburr. he just likes playing with the sprockets

29-02-2004 02:14

Katy

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how much does the arm weigh/how long is it?

29-02-2004 10:35

Jon K.

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The arm weighs quite a bit. I am not sure of exact figures but i am guessing around 20 lbs complete. That is not including our mast. The arm in that picture is not fully extended, but when fully extended it can reach the bar no problem. I believe it can go up to 10-11 feet total.

29-02-2004 12:12

Lisa Rodriguez

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I think the arm weighs a little more than that, not sure, but it fully extends to 11 feet

29-02-2004 12:36

bush173

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the arm weighed about 20 lbs when we still had the 2X grabbers, but we needed to save weight so off thay went along with around 6 lbs, so the arm is almost 15 lbs now

29-02-2004 12:41

David Bridge

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so will rage not be trying to manipulate the 2x balls at all, or are you planning on astonishing us all as usual by using those innovative skills to come up with a light weight way to do it?

29-02-2004 20:18

Lisa Rodriguez

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I'm afraid we cannot say

29-02-2004 20:28

Solace

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shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! don't give them any ideas!

an another note, I just realized that any of the robots that rage has built since 2000 could (with only a few minor modifications) pose some serious competition to this year's game. I think that at one of the post-season comps this year there should be a match that is Rage + Rage vs. Rage + Rage, Four years representing. i predict a close call with 2004 and 2001 rarely beating 2002 and 2003.

29-02-2004 20:37

David Bridge

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Now THERE is an idea... What about a post season comp where it was ALL robots from previous years. I for one would love to see how a lot of past robots would do in this years game. I mean the big balls are the exact same as 2001, and the small balls have been around for a while. We could even take it a little further and invite back alumni drivers and see if they still have what it takes!

29-02-2004 21:03

Elgin Clock

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I'm assuming that this would mean that the previous year's robots would have to be intact...

29-02-2004 22:00

Lisa Rodriguez

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If you wanna come over some night, Jake, and make them all work, that's fine BUT
'02 is intact for OBVIOUS reasons
'03 is still running, but kinda broken, actually, i'm not sure, i believe someone fried a transmission, but we can fix that
'01 is at the high school (how much is it when we set of the alarm, $300??)
and I'm pretty sure the '00 bot has been salvaged for parts

We COULD fix them, but it would take time and $$$, but maybe during the offseason........
it's not like we don't have a field

ps-i'm also not sure we have the controls....or programming, but like i said, offseason project....

01-03-2004 15:49

Jon K.

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a: I love my sprockets
b: so what if I didn't know how to deburr right
c: stop picking on me.

02-03-2004 00:10

Jeff Rodriguez

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When I looked at the '01 bot, while I was visiting, it was more of a shell. It didn't have a controller or most of the required motors/electronics.



I think the '99 bot should be included in there. When you had to raise a basket of floppies 9', your arms were pretty hefty. That robot could hang with a simple hook attchment.
And throw 45's '92 bot in there for giggles.