10-03-2004 21:48

Yan Wang

Re: pic: Code Red Robotics Team 639 Preship Photo

I'd like to congratulate Nick, our lead programmer, for getting auto to work so quickly. While the rest of our groups had weeks to work on our stuff, he had about 2 hours to make autonomous code work consistently (3 flawless tries in a row... after a bit of debugging the original code) and it was awesome.

We didn't work on the day of the ship. Some of us stayed late to pack up the robot. Final crate weight: 590lbs... we'll be bringing significantly more than that on our bus to Canadaaaaaa!!! Oh, and we should be slightly more red by then.

So, any comments/questions? I'm shamelessly advertising our robot before the regional.

10-03-2004 21:54

OneAngryDaisy

Re: pic: Code Red Robotics Team 639 Preship Photo

I love your bar grabber- so awesome... looks like a very sleek robot with a low COG- We'll see you at Chesapeake, right?

10-03-2004 22:18

edomus

Re: pic: Code Red Robotics Team 639 Preship Photo

I too love your grabber, very similar to what I designed

11-03-2004 07:00

JohnBoucher

Re: pic: Code Red Robotics Team 639 Preship Photo

Cool Grabber. I hope it makes a cool noise when it closes......

How well do those treads work?

11-03-2004 07:13

edomus

Re: pic: Code Red Robotics Team 639 Preship Photo

how do you release the grabber at the end of a match?

11-03-2004 08:36

Joe Matt

Re: pic: Code Red Robotics Team 639 Preship Photo

Dosn't look like a ball grabber, but just to hang on at the end. I hope you guys do well, not many designs like that work! The grabber is attached to a sissor (sp?) like devices to push it up and hook on. Good luck guys.

11-03-2004 08:54

Yan Wang

Re: pic: Code Red Robotics Team 639 Preship Photo

Unfortunately, due to funding, we won't be at Chesapeake. But we do plan to be at PARC again.

And to detach from the bar, we obviously need for it to be "raised down" by a FIRST volunteer so we can manually unhook it

Let's say that in our tests, that "tulip" worked very nicely.