24-02-2010 15:59

JHSmentor

Re: pic: Can you guess what makes our bot awesome?

well - looks like a vacuum but what's the white residue stuff on the face of it?

24-02-2010 18:24

billbo911

Re: pic: Can you guess what makes our bot awesome?

I would venture to say your robot sucks!

I would love to see how your implementation of a vacuum to retain the ball works and how it performs. We didn't have great luck with ours and scrapped it Saturday for a roller design.

24-02-2010 19:08

O'Sancheski

Re: pic: Can you guess what makes our bot awesome?

haha... quite literally... we are thinking of doing a vacuum system for our allotted items we are allowed to bring to competition... good luck to you guys...

24-02-2010 22:12

PAR_WIG1350

Re: pic: Can you guess what makes our bot awesome?

That doesn't look like an impeller in that... whatever that is.
Its not symmetrical, its not balanced.
Am I missing something?

24-02-2010 22:15

EricH

Re: pic: Can you guess what makes our bot awesome?

Look inside the hole in this end.

25-02-2010 02:24

Matt

Re: pic: Can you guess what makes our bot awesome?

This is for a vacuum system, but this is the second time team 1212 has used vacuum to pick things up. Back in 2004 team 1212 used this identical setup to pick up the big yellow ball and place it on a goal. With this motor and vacuum mechanism it will easily handle the soccer ball.

25-02-2010 18:37

PAR_WIG1350

Re: pic: Can you guess what makes our bot awesome?

I was, but if you zoom in it looks more like a wing nut or mangled piece of aluminium than impeller vanes.

25-02-2010 18:53

EricH

Re: pic: Can you guess what makes our bot awesome?

Look to the left of the nut. That's too even to be mangled aluminum, and too big to be a wing nut.

26-02-2010 11:42

funggiss

Re: pic: Can you guess what makes our bot awesome?

Tis a vac with duct tape residue on the front a lot like ours. Yeah, duct tape sealent

26-02-2010 22:15

PAR_WIG1350

Re: pic: Can you guess what makes our bot awesome?

OK, looking at it for the 20th time, it is starting to look like an impeller (again, as it did the first time), (not sure what happened the other 18 times). It just doesn't seem to be operable in its current state. It seems like there should be a third visible vane at the bottom. It could be just an optical illusion, though.

Edit: Wait... Okay, I see the third vane know, definitely an optical illusion