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By: Jaine Perotti
New: 22-03-2006 22:16
Updated: 22-03-2006 22:16
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This year, we decided that we would actually like to be able to reach inside the robot so that we could fix it. So, we decided to put our ball hopper on hinges, so it would be very easy to have access to the inner parts of the robot.
Isn't ironic that, the first year we have ever tried to make life easy on the pit crew, we have not had a single major problem to repair so far?
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22-03-2006 22:35
mechanicalbrain
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What the clearance between the drive motors and the rear wheels?
22-03-2006 22:36
Jherbie53
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Don't you just hate that. When its easy nothing goes wrong, but when its hard someting always goes wrong. Simple design = everything works , Complex design = fix the robot after every match. 
22-03-2006 22:40
The Lucas
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It would be a pleasure to inspect this bot at Philly. It makes my job a whole lot easier too. Great looking bot, good luck at Philly.
22-03-2006 22:40
Jaine Perotti
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Originally Posted by mechanicalbrain
What the clearance between the drive motors and the rear wheels?
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22-03-2006 22:43
Alex Cormier
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Sweet design and all. have to love the access to work on the robot. nice going!
22-03-2006 23:27
mechanicalbrain
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Originally Posted by BurningQuestion
Well, I don't have an exact measurement, but here is a picture of the robot during an earlier stage of the build period. Perhaps it will help clarify your question:
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22-03-2006 23:33
Jaine Perotti
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Originally Posted by mechanicalbrain
OK, cool. Yeah it looked very close in the other picture, but now I can see its like 1-1 1/2 inches. Still wouldn't want to take a hit to one of the motors. I'm really digging the wiring job.
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Also, for the most part, the frame of the hopper bin protects the motors. Also, since both of the pictures were taken, we added additional lexan shielding to the sides of the robot. So far, there haven't been any problems.
23-03-2006 08:03
Andy Brockway
Re: pic: Team 716 Accesible Design
You can see in the second picture that the tires are pretty worn out. This is an earlier picture when Skyway was back ordered. We used wheels from 2003 that were custom ground by the cheese grater that was called the ramp. When we put on the new tires, we had to move the wheels back one slot for clearance on the motors.
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