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By: sdcantrell56
New: 17-02-2009 12:17
Updated: 17-02-2009 12:17
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This is our robot as we are shipping it. All we have to add are our decorations and possibly 2 ducted fans.
We can hold around 15 balls. The shooter can rotate as well as adjust the distance of the shot without decreasing velocity. We can empty our helix in 3 seconds or slightly less. We will hopefully have a full tracking code working by our regional.
I will try to take some video of our practice bot soon. Good luck to everyone and let me know what you think.
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17-02-2009 12:29
s_forbes
Re: pic: FRC1771 Robot for 2009
It looks.... familiar. heheh 
Too bad we won't be at any competitions together, playing in a match with our long lost twin would be awesome!
17-02-2009 12:33
sdcantrell56
Re: pic: FRC1771 Robot for 2009
I still can't believe how similar our bots are without any collaboration. We refer to you guys as our clone when talking about your videos. I hope we had the right idea with this design. I think it will be quite effective. One cool thing about our shooter is that we can shoot down at an almost 45 degree angle to be a super accurate power dumper.
17-02-2009 12:34
MrForbes
Re: pic: FRC1771 Robot for 2009
Very nice! and it looks strangely familar....but in different colors....
17-02-2009 13:25
Lil' Lavery
Re: pic: FRC1771 Robot for 2009
What material are the rails of the helix made out of?
And I love the color scheme.
17-02-2009 14:31
sdcantrell56
Re: pic: FRC1771 Robot for 2009
the helix is made from pex water tube. It is HDPE and commonly available at lowes or home depot. Luckily for us they sell it in red and blue for hot and cold water. It is awesome to work with and we designed the brackets so that the tube snaps into them to make assembly super easy and require no fasteners.
For anyone who is curious our bot with the decorations weighs 116lbs and I have a plan to take it down another 3lbs so that we can add the ducted fans and hopefully another super secret device that will help us score.
17-02-2009 15:58
Akash Rastogi
Re: pic: FRC1771 Robot for 2009
Looks insanely slick Sean. I love it. I'll definitely be watching you guys compete throughout the season.
18-02-2009 19:25
Shmee
Re: pic: FRC1771 Robot for 2009
Dang...that is one nice looking bot. Missed seeing you at Kimberley-Clark's scrimmage this past weekend though.
How does your roller work? It looks efficient. We ran into a few problems with ours, but it works (mostly). Also, love the color scheme
Want to make it long lost triplets/quadruplets/etc.? Check out 832's if you get the chance. Or just wait 'til Peachtree!
18-02-2009 19:27
MrForbes
Re: pic: FRC1771 Robot for 2009
It looks like balls that go into the right (in the picture) side of the robot will push back the tubing, which will spring them over to the left side so they can go up the helix.
If so, that's a really clever design, I wish we'd thought of it when we decided to reverse our helix instead
18-02-2009 19:29
EricLeifermann
Re: pic: FRC1771 Robot for 2009
How easy was it to bend the water tube? The bot looks super sharp. I wish we had the time/resources to make our robots look like that... Good luck this year.
18-02-2009 19:33
gorrilla
Re: pic: FRC1771 Robot for 2009
everyone else's robot looks way cooler than ours 
i was trying to convince Dave(our mentor) to let me paint ours, but we decided to use the angle grinder and make everything all "swirly-like"
18-02-2009 19:34
MrForbes
Re: pic: FRC1771 Robot for 2009
The water tubing we used came on a roll that was the right diameter for a robot, so it was not difficult at all.
I don't know about that nifty red stuff though
18-02-2009 19:40
ttldomination
Re: pic: FRC1771 Robot for 2009
NORTH GWINNETT, WHAT IS YOUR PROFESSION????
18-02-2009 22:05
sdcantrell56
Re: pic: FRC1771 Robot for 2009
Thanks everyone. This is without a doubt the most ambitious design we have undertaken and hopefully it will be successful.
The front roller assembly consists of a top roller which is directly driven by a rs-545 through a banebots 16:1 p60. This roller is connected to the bottom roller with polycord. We went with the 2 roller design so that the top roller would force the balls into the helix eliminating any jams. Also the red tube in front eliminates any chance of jamming and funnels the balls to the right side. Plus it looks really cool 
The Pex tube is very easy to work with. We used the 1/2" diameter tube and it comes in rolls so all we had to do was roll it tighter depending on which loop we were making. It also worked perfectly with our brackets so that we could press the tubing into it instead of having to bolt it or screw it in.
I have seen a couple bots eerily similar to ours so I hope all of us decided on a solid design. It would be great to play with all of you guys at peachtree. I did see roswell's bot and it looks awesome.
TTL...Our occupation is to hopefully win a spot to the DOME!!!!
19-02-2009 20:42
Astarties
Re: pic: FRC1771 Robot for 2009
Very pretty. I love robots that are nice to look at. It puts ours to shame.
19-02-2009 22:07
Jeremy Roberts
Re: pic: FRC1771 Robot for 2009
Great job once again! I look forward to seeing your team in a few weeks.
15-03-2009 08:01
Josh Drake
Re: pic: FRC1771 Robot for 2009
After seeing this thing in action...
Best shooter I've seen.
Another great robot guys. I wish we could have gotten together in the finals, but it wasn't to be. I had fun watching our combined offensive power in the qualifyer. I wish you were coming to Palmetto
15-03-2009 09:06
sdcantrell56
Re: pic: FRC1771 Robot for 2009
Drake thank you so much. I was really hoping we would seed #1 after winning out on saturday and would pick you guys. You had a great robot and drive team. I wish we had a second try. If something opens up at palmetto let us know and we might figure something out. There's always next year...
15-03-2009 09:55
cziggy343
Re: pic: FRC1771 Robot for 2009
yeah, to echo what josh said, we really wanted to be with you guys. it was a shame that it wasn't to be b/c that red and orange on the field together would have been sexy
15-03-2009 09:57
sdcantrell56
Re: pic: FRC1771 Robot for 2009
Man I know. After that qualifier we had together we wanted to partner up so bad but it wouldn't have been possible without us being #1. We would have for sure broken our high score again. We got close but just not close enough. Hopefully next year we can partner up and dominate!!!
Good luck at Palmetto.
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