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By: miketwalker
New: 12-02-2006 18:51
Updated: 12-02-2006 18:51
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A team formed 2 days before kickoff has secured a top-notch facility for producing robots that few can rival. Team 1902s operation facility is located in Dan Richardson's garage.
This panorama shows the capabilities of our shop. To the left you see the "storage facility", in which we were able to use 2 shelves (the rest were full with roommates car repair parts, oil, etc.) In the center-left you can see the pit-sized build/test facility featuring carpet that was rolled up in the corner at the beginning. Continuing the tour, we come to our machine shop featuring a light and a drill press that even works sometimes.
We now arrive at the media/observation section of the "studio" in which halogen and fluorescent lighting is used for high-quality picture taking, and old saw-horses (which help to provide an antique look in the studio when they aren't broken) are provided for those wishing to observe the tasks being performed, if you are able to find room in between the roommates' cardboard boxes. Finally, we reach the all-important climate control system. The garage door permits almost unlimited variances in temperature by simply turning the power off when the door reaches the level desired.
All of us at Exploding Bacon hope that teams will be able to do the extensive fundraising and roommate-bargaining necessary to achieve this level of success. (Tip: College roommates will let you use their garage if you feed them a few times in the 6 weeks)
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12-02-2006 19:30
Alex Cormier
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thats one impressive bot with what you guys had to build with. where you guys headed to for competitions?
12-02-2006 19:33
viking1902
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Originally Posted by Alex Cormier
thats one impressive bot with what you guys had to build with. where you guys headed to for competitions?
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12-02-2006 19:41
Eric Scheuing
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Interest mechanism you have for harvesting. I like it.
Is that shelf warped, or is it just me?
12-02-2006 20:11
George1902
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Originally Posted by Eric Scheuing
Is that shelf warped, or is it just me?
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Our original design was more ambitious than this, but lack of resources forced us to narrow our scope some.
On the bright side, it's a week 'til ship day and all we have to so is a little programming, some mechanical tweaking, and crate building.
See y'all at UCF and Lone Star!
12-02-2006 21:28
matt101
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A Few comments and questions. One: Are the balls brought up by rollers of one side, and afixed side on the other? Because four years ago, First had a game that involved picking up soccer balls and we had a robot IDENTICLE to that. Our problem was one side was fixed, the other rollers. So as the balls a sucked up they bunch, and so the rotation of a ball in front would conflict with the rotation with the one behind it. That not make much sense, it does in my mind I just cant tell you real well.
12-02-2006 21:39
sanddrag
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That makes perfect sense. We are having a single sided conveyor. We are relying on the fact that it would be quite unlikely for us to pick up two in a row (due to natural scatter of the balls on the field).
12-02-2006 22:36
Adam Richards
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Uhh Mike... 1902 isn't doing the same design on the top that 21 did in 2004, are they? Tell me it at least feeds balls somewhere... 
12-02-2006 22:39
Dan Richardson
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In our system we have room for 2 balls side by side, both sides are on rollers so that the balls continuously spin. On the bottom there is a divider, so the ball either has to go up the right side or the left side, as the balls get sucked in and are spinning they seperate on either side for about 3 stacks, then begin to settle in the middle. As we suck up additional balls they push the other ball to the right or left side.
So because the ball enters on the left or the right side it pushes the balls that reside in the middle to the opposite side.
The system is pretty sound, we still have some binding issues but its mainly the balls pushing against the lexan, and when the bot moves around they seem to sort themselves out. I'll be posting a short teaser style video to show more of how the system works, and some more detailed pictures later.
12-02-2006 23:06
Rick TYler
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I think you have built an incredibly nice robot for a rookie team. The fact that you built it in half of a garage makes it even more impressive. Really good work.
13-02-2006 00:45
Dan Richardson
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http://media.putfile.com/Robots-gone-wild is the teaser video
13-02-2006 01:09
miketwalker
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Originally Posted by Adam Richards
Uhh Mike... 1902 isn't doing the same design on the top that 21 did in 2004, are they? Tell me it at least feeds balls somewhere...
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13-02-2006 13:04
Dan Richardson
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Originally Posted by Adam Richards
Uhh Mike... 1902 isn't doing the same design on the top that 21 did in 2004, are they? Tell me it at least feeds balls somewhere...
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Heh we got some mentors from old school 710 and 180 to help alleviate those problems :-P It spits em out faster than it can suck them in.
14-02-2006 01:24
UlTiMaTeP
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I think the key to the top notch workspace, is the indirect quartz lighting
14-02-2006 12:09
Dan Richardson
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Heh, yeah actually in the garage we had no lighting until a week into the season, we had no money to buy any heh. We just had the garage lightbulb to provide light, so we had to open and close the garage so it would go on every 5 minutes or so lol
It was deffinately an experience
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