25-02-2011 21:05

Akash Rastogi

Re: pic: 1511 Presents Thunderous Prime

Why omni's instead of standard 6wd drop center?

25-02-2011 21:45

The Lucas

Re: pic: 1511 Presents Thunderous Prime

Beautiful sheet metal work. That plus the color scheme made me think of another named Prime...

My guess: Maneuverability plus smoother ride (no rocking). Unless you are planning on playing back & forth blocking defense (I know you are mastering that Akash ) I don't see a major need for traverse friction.

26-02-2011 00:54

Kims Robot

Re: pic: 1511 Presents Thunderous Prime

Sorry but drop center was a terrible idea.. whomever used it first. We used it our rookie year and were constantly fighting the rocking back and forth.. it was a nightmare to program and really never provided a single advantage over this 6wd. This 6wd has been fielded in several competitions, turns on a dime, is fast and is incredibly powerful (it shoved several big name teams off the 2006 ramps!) I cant see any advantage to using drop wheel... ick!

26-02-2011 01:13

Akash Rastogi

Re: pic: 1511 Presents Thunderous Prime

I disagree, depends on the amount of rock plus your weight distribution.

Regardless, sick robot yet again, and if your driver is the same as last year you should be pretty dominant.

What's the minibot deployment/climb speed?

Good luck at FLR and DC!

26-02-2011 01:28

Aren_Hill

Re: pic: 1511 Presents Thunderous Prime

That is a topic that deserves its own thread if you wanna open that argument up, I know many people would have opinions and data to contribute.

27-02-2011 12:29

rees2001

Re: pic: 1511 Presents Thunderous Prime

From what I'm hearing one of your robots "cool" features isn't something I will have to see at competition but hear?

27-02-2011 13:42

Chris is me

Re: pic: 1511 Presents Thunderous Prime

How big was your drop?

28-02-2011 07:37

zivo123

Re: pic: 1511 Presents Thunderous Prime

can that arm rotate 270 degrees? i mean can you place on both sides?

28-02-2011 07:54

pandamonium

Re: pic: 1511 Presents Thunderous Prime

Yes it places on both sides!
This gives the drivers even more options!

28-02-2011 09:02

pfreivald

Re: pic: 1511 Presents Thunderous Prime

Sweet! Can't wait to see it running full-bore!

28-02-2011 09:44

dodar

Re: pic: 1511 Presents Thunderous Prime

How does the arm+claw store before the match?

28-02-2011 10:09

thefro526

Re: pic: 1511 Presents Thunderous Prime

1511, the robot looks awesome! I really like the alignment device for deployment.

I'd imagine it would have had to be something big, like 1/4"+ to have that much of a rock. We've used 3/16" and it rocked a bit, but not enough that it ever bothered me - now we're using 1/8" and it doesn't really rock at all, it just more or less puts most of the weight of the bot on 4 wheels instead of 6.

28-02-2011 10:45

Waffles

Re: pic: 1511 Presents Thunderous Prime

330 degrees

We can place front side, or rear side. Kinda rocks - just needs some serious coordination!

28-02-2011 11:51

zivo123

Re: pic: 1511 Presents Thunderous Prime

AMAZING! definitely the winning configuration for a robot this year (Arm that can place on both sides) hope you guys did it good cant wait to see it in action!

28-02-2011 12:07

Waffles

Re: pic: 1511 Presents Thunderous Prime

It's folded up with the arm inside the robot, and the manipulator is just velcroed to the arm XD

So in autonomous (usually) everything flops out for the ubertube