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By: reversed_rocker
New: 17-03-2009 00:21
Updated: 17-03-2009 00:21
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a good bot, we didnt place that well at wisconsin regionals due to a disqualification in our 4th round. Dont let your human player touch a robot! Despite the rank we're still like our bot, especially since both our drivers, lead programmer, and lead mechanic were all on their rookie year.
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17-03-2009 12:40
Jeff Pahl
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Very nice looking bot. Most of my team was drooling over it at one time or another at Wisconsin.
17-03-2009 15:53
sgreco
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Is that a Lamassu? 
But in all seriousness, that a really impressive piece of engineering. I love the CNCed side panels (or were they water jetted?).
What's the ball capacity?
17-03-2009 20:23
reversed_rocker
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15 balls, you can get in more if you compress them but we were scared of jamming the conveyor motors.
17-03-2009 20:32
Bruceb
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I was plasma cut and smoothed out with the blood of freshmen mmmuuuaaahhhaaa.Bruce
17-03-2009 21:04
Gary.C
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I was also thinking that the bot is like pinks twin. Collaboration??
17-03-2009 21:26
AlexD744
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Looks like pinks minus pink has a hopper option. And I don't know if you have the same sensors.
17-03-2009 21:29
JonellGregor
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This looks alot like Pinks!
Nice looking robot!
18-03-2009 00:05
reversed_rocker
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thats just plain strange, i dont even know where the pink team is from. hopefully we do have a few key differences because otherwise my engineering ego will have definitely taken a hit. right now the factors that i think would separate us would be
Automated conveyor belt using optical sensors
4 wheel crab drive with inverted front and back steering
adjustable turret hood
custom steering wheel (a pot hooked to the analog input on the driver's station translated to give values for the steering encoders to follow)
18-03-2009 00:20
GreerD
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Originally Posted by reversed_rocker
otherwise my engineering ego will have definitely taken a hit.
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18-03-2009 00:22
NickE
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Originally Posted by reversed_rocker
thats just plain strange, i dont even know where the pink team is from. hopefully we do have a few key differences because otherwise my engineering ego will have definitely taken a hit. right now the factors that i think would separate us would be
Automated conveyor belt using optical sensors 4 wheel crab drive with inverted front and back steering adjustable turret hood custom steering wheel (a pot hooked to the analog input on the driver's station translated to give values for the steering encoders to follow) |
Yes, there are significant differences between their bot and yours, the most notable being the swerve drive. Pink is using a six wheel tank drive.
Even if there are resemblances, don't let your ego take a hit! Pink consistently has some of the nicest robot engineering in FIRST.
18-03-2009 00:40
reversed_rocker
Re: pic: 706 Lunacy Bot
oh im not doubting that 233 is a great team, what i meant by that is that i thought that we had a fairly original design. sorry to any members of 233 who took that the wrong way.
23-03-2009 17:02
UnknownMember
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Good lookin' bot! Just out of curiosity - You said "Despite our rank, we're still like our bot..." Did you mean "we still like our bot," or that you are like your bot? Is this kinda like the pet thing, where pets look like their owners and vice versa? Robots are like their teams? Be interesting to look into this further... 
23-03-2009 17:49
AndyB
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I was really high on this bot ever since seeing it at Sussex. It's a shame things didn't work out so well. We didn't fair well ourselves either....
Stupid orbit balls.
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