10-02-2006 23:08

Tytus Gerrish

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Beautifulll!

10-02-2006 23:08

chrisinmd

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nice board!
I like your joystick handles, most teams seem to be modding the KOP sticks and having good results.
Did the feel of the joystick change when you put the new handles on?
We're thinking of doing something similar this year.
-Chris

11-02-2006 15:54

alphastryk

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i like the joysicks.

do those help increase the spring strength of the sticks? i know they are really wobbly as they come in the kit.

11-02-2006 18:34

lukevanoort

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Sweet! I wonder if my team would let me do that... probably not since we don't have enough screwdrivers as it is and we're using CH Flightsticks anyway.

11-02-2006 18:41

Kim Masi

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that has to be the most awesome control board i've seen! i really like the crisp, industrial look...we will post a pic of our control system soon after ship, prepared to be amazed.

how much does it weigh?

11-02-2006 21:02

Pat Fairbank

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It weights 14 lbs, and is made primarily of 28mm extrusion and 1/8" Lexan.

The modded joysticks are a lot better than they used to be (we also epoxy'ed the trim tabs into place) but there still seems to be some looseness where the stick attaches to the pots.

The screwdriver modification was really easy to do. We bought the screwdrivers for about $9, blowtorched the steel until it melted the plastic enough to be removable, then bored the handle and stuck it onto the joystick base.

15-01-2007 17:18

xur2007

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Nice...just curious, did you use lexan or plexi?

15-01-2007 17:47

lukevanoort

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Reading does wonders.

15-01-2007 18:01

DarkFlame145

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Nice, screw drivers

15-01-2007 18:31

Josh Goodman

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That's looks ridiculously cool! Props!

12-01-2008 13:12

Ethulin

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What are the dimensions of that board?
How did you bend the Lexan for your OI?

12-01-2008 13:16

cardinalman86

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man, that is totally awesome.

12-01-2008 15:03

artdutra04

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If you use a heat gun to heat up Lexan, you can bend it and it will retain the bend when it cools.

13-01-2008 00:07

EricRobodox

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careful heating it though, it can bubble and somewhat ruin the integrity of the plastic. Learned that my freshman year. Normally you should be ok, but dont leave the heat on too long with lexan, let alone any plastic. If it does bubble, it should still be ok, just wont look as good.

15-01-2008 15:26

Illegalsocks

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that control board is incredimazing. good job team 296.

24-01-2008 01:04

zacattack

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Looks awesome, especially with the 80/20.

28-01-2008 00:48

nreyesciena

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Wow, that looks pretty heavy. Last year ( my last year as team member, now a mentor) I was the robot driver, I made the control board out of lexan and that thing weighted a lot, big mistake since I was the one having the carry it all the way to the station and back, especially in Atlanta We painted it to resemble a retro NES controller, the two red buttons being the drive joysticks and the D-pad being the manipulator/arm/whateverdeviceusedtohandlegamepieces but we scrapped that one when we simply cut off our the robot arm. Oh yeah the OI was the Start / Select buttons.

28-01-2008 02:02

Matt H.

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I would also worry about the weight. Is that going to be a team lift? This year team 1726 is taking a minimalistic approach to OI design in hopes of being better able to carry it around.

28-01-2008 21:11

lasereyes

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Do you have buttons on those?

29-01-2008 00:12

EricVanWyk

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Be careful. Some people have been known to do this and then drop the heat gun next to the battery.

We had a particularly bad mentor that insisted on doing things by himself. This means he didn't have nearly enough hands for the operation, and ended up burning one of our batteries.


On a separate note - NICE.

29-01-2008 16:01

Tal Nitzan

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Sweet! love it!

29-01-2008 21:45

x7shaddow

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Looks good, I reli like the idea of modded KoP joysticks, espically if one driver has to use two, it just feels so akwars using a right-handed joystick in your left hand.

29-01-2008 22:05

basicxman

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cool! controlling the bot with screwdrivers!!! that's worth of recognition in the jedi archives ( sorry i just saw star wars)

29-01-2008 22:25

Pat Fairbank

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Just so everyone's on the same page, this picture is in fact from two years ago.

We're going to try something similar this year on the team I'm with now (1503), but it's going to be slightly more difficult with the need for buttons for shifting and whatnot (the 296 screwdriver-sticks didn't have buttons).

29-01-2008 23:04

BlackBird11891

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i like the extrusion aluminum

30-01-2008 08:36

seraphim33

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thats a slick control board nice

11-02-2008 15:20

296Minion

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That thing looks familiar?