29-03-2004 21:25

Alex Cormier

Re: pic: Truck Town OU Unveiled (Team 68)

very stlying!
what is the part that u blocked out last time, do you have apic of the ot so we can see what the cotrols relate to the ot..thanks nice control box

29-03-2004 21:30

MisterX

Re: pic: Truck Town OU Unveiled (Team 68)

Before they ahd the arm part blocked out and there was a big long thread about it as wells as funding ansd their trucks ... It kinda got a little off topic but was pretty impressive if oyu do a search you can proabbly find a pic of the blocked off shot.

KUDOS TO YOU GUYS ( Truck Town Thunder) ONCE AGAIN AND TO THINK I WAS IMPRESSED WITH JUST THE JOYSTICKS AND MOUNTS FROM THE PIC BEFORE!!!! I HOPE YOU GUYS WIN AN AWARD FOR YOUR SET UP!!!!!!!!

p.s. if you guys are at ANtionals think we can work a phot op with the truck either the real one or the miniture real one!!!!

29-03-2004 21:35

J Flex 188

Re: pic: Truck Town OU Unveiled (Team 68)

awesome job guys! at first when i saw the teaser i was like wow too, but after having gone to pittsburgh and actually realising the size limitations on a control board, i.e. they cant be too long and hit the huge E-Stop assembly -__-", i was thinking that they might be too long, but this shows off the scale and its sooo great.. makes it even better with the minature arm =D

29-03-2004 21:43

danield710

Re: pic: Truck Town OU Unveiled (Team 68)

very nice, love the light and the mini arm

we also have a mini arm, but the lights just make it look really nice

good job

29-03-2004 21:47

Alexander McGee

Re: pic: Truck Town OU Unveiled (Team 68)

Well thank you for all your kind words!

As a matter of fact, we won the innovation in controll design award at Colorado last weekend. YEAH!

LOL

Anyways, we put a lot into the arm control, so let me explain:

The arm is a mini-arm version of our Robot's arm. It can accuratelly position the arm using Pots, and some hefty programming. You also might notice the little red buttons below the arm. These coorespond to a binary system used to (when accuratelly pressed) give extensive feedback information about the condition of the arms. This includes:

• Real Arm Position
• Theroretical Arm Position
• Motor Damage (Scale 0-9)
• Shaft Damage (Scale 0-9)
• Pot Damage (Scale 0-1)

The arm is programmed to stop it's self after a certain level of damage to the shafts, motors, or pots; if there is any. It also has pre-determined arm positions which can be moved to semelesslely with the push of a button.

This all leads up to this:


Clever, dont you think? Im just messing. Im no artist. But, once again, I thank everyone for the kind words.

PEACE AND LOVE

good luck.

29-03-2004 22:18

J Flex 188

Re: pic: Truck Town OU Unveiled (Team 68)

one word: $@#$@#$@#$@#.
..sigh autofilter

dayam!

having a scale model is one thing

diagnostics set you above the bar this year =D.

(though i dont know too much about first history, so i dont know if its been done before)

is the operator able to override it at any time though? say you have a high damage factor, but really really really need to cap in final 2.1? hehe

29-03-2004 22:44

Greg Perkins

Re: pic: Truck Town OU Unveiled (Team 68)

holy seatbelt hooks batman!



...


WOW


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bravo, touche, wow...

30-03-2004 14:34

Mike Soukup

Re: pic: Truck Town OU Unveiled (Team 68)

Sounds great, but can you go into more detail? I understand Real & Theoretical arm position, but how do you detect motor/shaft/pot damage? Are you looking at the pot values & the motor outputs and making sure that the pots are changing in the expected manner based on your motor outputs? Or do you do something more complex? We're not judges, you can get into more of the details with us

30-03-2004 16:53

Ryan Foley

Re: pic: Truck Town OU Unveiled (Team 68)

I'm guessing the 2 seat belt sockets are for some sort of strap so you can wear the board. I'm also guessing that the drill battery allows you to power the OI without the AC jack, so that you can walk around with the controls and control your robot?

Unbelievable control panel.

30-03-2004 19:53

tkwetzel

Re: pic: Truck Town OU Unveiled (Team 68)

That is amazing...looks great...uber-features with those diagnostics...and is still very simplistic. AMAZING job team 68.

30-03-2004 20:00

MOEmaniac

Re: pic: Truck Town OU Unveiled (Team 68)

very very very swanky

30-03-2004 21:58

Ryan F.

Re: pic: Truck Town OU Unveiled (Team 68)

That is so awesome...I wish our arm had a control like that