03-03-2004 00:37

Re: pic: Chief Delphi (#47)

The unveiling is here!

03-03-2004 00:39

Tyler Olds

Re: pic: Chief Delphi (#47)

A very interesting and unique design, I love the fact that you posted differant pictures showing all the tasks your bot can do.

My only question: Can you hang from the ground? Or do you have to climb the stairs? If you have to climb, do you climb 6''?

Well done and good luck.

03-03-2004 00:45

Amanda Morrison

Re: pic: Chief Delphi (#47)

very cool. looking forward to seeing you guys compete soon... should be interesting.

03-03-2004 00:51

mtaman02

Re: pic: Chief Delphi (#47)

As always Team #47 not only puts out an awesome Forum / Team 47 WEbsite but an awesome robot. Good Luck guys at the regionals

How does the ball tube (i'm calling it a ball tube) take in balls. Is there a device directing / feeding the balls into the tube or do you just drive around scooping them up?

03-03-2004 00:52

Jessica Boucher

Re: pic: Chief Delphi (#47)

Definitely not what I was expecting from the Chief....

...but I love it!!!

So, whose decision was it to have a small ball hopper that can only hold 4? Is this a magic number, or something based on dimension restrictions?

03-03-2004 01:02

Cory

Re: pic: Chief Delphi (#47)

So, I hear those DeWalt drill motor transmissions give y'all a 3 speed shift on the fly transmission. That's such a simple way to create a shifting transmission, Im suprised noone else thought of it. Good luck and see you guys in San Jose.

Cory

03-03-2004 01:05

Vu2000

Re: pic: Chief Delphi (#47)

Are we allowed to use Dewalt Drill motors? I always thought that we were restricted to using the two Bosch motors they gave us in the kit.... What are the rules

03-03-2004 01:07

Cory

Re: pic: Chief Delphi (#47)

The DeWalt *Drill motors* arent allowed, but 47 is only using the transmissions, not the actual motor, making them legal to use.

Cory

03-03-2004 01:08

Bill Gold

Re: pic: Chief Delphi (#47)

You're not allowed to use the DeWalt motors, but you are allowed to use the "off the shelf" DeWalt transmissions in conjunction with kit provided motors (which is what #47 did).

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Darn. You're too fast for me, Cory.
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03-03-2004 09:46

Joe Johnson

Re: pic: Chief Delphi (#47)

I would not say that we posted pictures of ALL that we can do ;-)

As to hanging from the ground, no problem.

As to climbing 6 inch stairs, no problem.

Joe J.

03-03-2004 09:50

Joe Johnson

See this thread...

This is discussed here: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=26161

Joe J.

03-03-2004 11:19

Greg Perkins

Re: pic: Chief Delphi (#47)

hey...if your robot doesnt last through the comp. you know it might make a good bomb squad vehicle lol, all kidding aside, great bot

03-03-2004 11:36

Joe Johnson

Re: pic: Chief Delphi (#47)

Of course it is a magic number! It is precisely the number need to win the Grand Championship ;-)

Seriously though, everything on a FIRST robot is a compromise of some kind -- even if you decide to do EVERYTHING, you will have to compromise somewhere to make it happen, even if you just give up a reinforcement on another part of your robot.

4 was more than Zero which we thought was too low (Others, Wildstang perhaps chief among them, appear to have other opinions) and 20+ which we thought was too high (again, others have made other choices).

4 ended up to be "enough" given the wide range of things we felt were important.

Joe J.