01-04-2008 23:47

=Martin=Taylor=

Re: pic: Skunkworks Team 1983 NEW ROBOT FOR ATLANTA!

Your use of the ladder was pretty clever. What kind of bearings did you use to make it slide so nice?

01-04-2008 23:52

Un Luchador

Re: pic: Skunkworks Team 1983 NEW ROBOT FOR ATLANTA!

haha, funny.

02-04-2008 02:06

Stephi Rae

Re: pic: Skunkworks Team 1983 NEW ROBOT FOR ATLANTA!

haha, I'm going to assume that you mean on the real robot... The robot in this picture is just our practice robot and our new pvc "ball-knocker-offer" so that our drivers finally have something to practice with and our programmers can finally work on a hybrid. Anyways, i believe we used the igus slides, and mounted the tracks straight to the edge of the ladder sections. the slides are simply the little plastic things from igus. i was not personally responsible for the construction of that part, so i'm not exactly positive, but I believe that is pretty much how it all goes together. on the outer sides of the ladder sections we have our pulley system. the pulleys are simple plastic pulleys, i'm not sure where we got them, and we run spectron line (commonly used on sailboates) through them to the drum setup which is run by a FP and 550. They are run together, and one side of the ladder/pulley/spectron setup powers up and the other powers down by running opposite directions on the drum. It's a pretty cool thing to see. We used the same slides for the "tilt back" motion on the ladder for our carrying configuration. If you have anymore questions feel free to ask, and i'll get some more info from someone that worked on it more than i have!

02-04-2008 20:08

Dave McLaughlin

Re: pic: Skunkworks Team 1983 NEW ROBOT FOR ATLANTA!

I do enjoy our new robot... It is capable oh very fast travel specializing in the teleported period... Ok sorry, Portland Joke

02-04-2008 20:13

thefro526

Re: pic: Skunkworks Team 1983 NEW ROBOT FOR ATLANTA!

What I like most about it is that, that robot would actually be pretty decent in this years game.

02-04-2008 20:20

technoL

Re: pic: Skunkworks Team 1983 NEW ROBOT FOR ATLANTA!

LadderBot looks pretty cool. Perhaps you guys could jazz it up a bit and use it for demos.

02-04-2008 20:21

Chris Herold

Re: pic: Skunkworks Team 1983 NEW ROBOT FOR ATLANTA!

Well, decent but I don't think you could win any regionals with it. It's really just a test bot...the really one did way better. BTW you should never let the operator and the robocoach drive the robot... we had some bad experience with the practice robot! (Sorry Steph and Daniel...I just had to say that...^^)

02-04-2008 20:41

thefro526

Re: pic: Skunkworks Team 1983 NEW ROBOT FOR ATLANTA!

When the seasons over you could loan that 'bot to some pre-rookies at an offseason so they can get used to having a robot.

02-04-2008 21:41

Stephi Rae

Re: pic: Skunkworks Team 1983 NEW ROBOT FOR ATLANTA!

you make a good point about loaning the bot out. we were given one by a team nearby that had folded before our first FIRST season last year. It was nice to get an idea of the electronis, and an example of a drive train.

As far as a competition robot, aside from being ridiculously underwieght right now, yeah, it would be a pretty decent rabbit with the ability to knock the ball off I guess. Although, right now, the "knocker" is stationary and would not be within the height restrictions...