15-01-2009 20:39

Smaug

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dude its hex cell

15-01-2009 21:27

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Oooooh. I wish we had the budget to use Honeycomb aluminum.... That stuff is niiiiice!

15-01-2009 22:14

Akash Rastogi

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how much would about 2ft^2 of that weigh? At that thickness. Thanks.

15-01-2009 22:15

Woody1458

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Is it just me, or are the wheels on the corners and 45˚ to the robot frame? I guess some form of the omniwheel omnidirection drive

15-01-2009 22:28

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Or Ackermann steering.

15-01-2009 22:34

Starke

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Looks like a good design to me! The only comment I have is that motor says FRC 2008 on it. Is that an old motor or am I reading it wrong?

15-01-2009 23:06

its da PAT!!!

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Honeycomb aluminum is really nice and expensive but well worth it our team used it on our 2007 ramp bot made the ramps very light and strong!!

15-01-2009 23:19

T3_1565

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1565 gets free honeycomb alumium from our sponser ATS.. its wonderful stuff, pretty light and really strong. I like the low ground clearance on the bot too.

Linkage drive maybe *crosses fingers* could be....I wish....

EDIT: on second thought.. I just read who posted it. Jesse, please tell me you guys actually did it and can I have pictures?

16-01-2009 08:58

Vince lau

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twitch 2 :O

16-01-2009 09:57

T3_1565

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I hope so lol. I would be so proud *sniff*

16-01-2009 10:00

JesseK

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Aye, this is a Twitch 2.0 prototype (sans pistons)!

Actually we won't name it 'Twitch' because that's a 1565 trademark, but when we talk about the design, programming and controls we use 'twitch' as a verb every 10 seconds or so

As with any revision 2, there are upgrades and new problems, so we won't realize the fun aspects until it's fully functional. If everything stays on schedule, next weekend we'll see it operating on near-identical conditions on an ice skating rink...

16-01-2009 10:16

T3_1565

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sweet! I'm so proud!

Any chance I can see what you did differently? (you already explained it in PM but a pic will be worth more than that lol.)

16-01-2009 10:32

JesseK

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Pictures will come soon, very soon...and probably more on our website more than CD. We had to do some (seemingly) magical rearrangement to get the compressor, cRIO and battery to fit within the bottom area there. The CAD says that there's still room for the pistons, but I'm always a bit antsy until I see something when it's that close.

18-01-2009 11:00

team1203 4life

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we used the honeycomb aluminum in 2007 worked out perfectly on our ramp got us all the way to the finals