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This CAD model is a few weeks old and we're not using this design any longer, so I thought it might be fun/useful to throw it up here on CD and share it with people.
Because the discs take up a tremendous amount of the area of a robot, we thought that storing them vertically might afford us more room for other mechanisms. We designed this elevator to store four discs and load them into the back end of our shooting system. The discs are spaced 1.75" apart and there is a custom-designed geneva mechanism at the top that indexes the elevator car 1.75" per turn of the mechanism.
I can go into more specifics if people are interested and maybe post a closer look at the geneva model, too.
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25-01-2013 17:51
JVN
Re: pic: Frisbee Elevator
Soooo cool.
For the viewers playing the home game. Check this out.
I've been trying to find an excuse to put a Geneva mechanism on a 148 robot for about 5 years now. I've had them on several concepts, but none ever made the final robot. I'm sorry to hear that yours didn't make the cut either...
PS - Nice sheet metal work! The hat-channels tying on the base supports is a really neat way to get stiffness. #appreciatethelittledetails
25-01-2013 17:54
waialua359
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Originally Posted by JVN
Soooo cool.
For the viewers playing the home game. Check this out. I've been trying to find an excuse to put a Geneva mechanism on a 148 robot for about 5 years now. I've had them on several concepts, but none ever made the final robot. I'm sorry to hear that yours didn't make the cut either... PS - Nice sheet metal work! The hat-channels tying on the base supports is a really neat way to get stiffness. #appreciatethelittledetails |
That is cool!!
Did you folks think about doing that back in 2010 with the soccer ball shooter?
25-01-2013 21:46
Nick Lawrence
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So freaking cool. I wish you guys were building this.
-Nick
25-01-2013 22:07
Travis Hoffman
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Neat!
The closest we've gotten to a Geneva wheel on an FRC bot is the barrel exchanger mechanism for our 2010 robot's t-shirt cannon overhaul.
25-01-2013 22:17
Ian Curtis
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Originally Posted by JVN
Soooo cool.
For the viewers playing the home game. Check this out. I've been trying to find an excuse to put a Geneva mechanism on a 148 robot for about 5 years now. I've had them on several concepts, but none ever made the final robot. I'm sorry to hear that yours didn't make the cut either... |
Definitely super cool.
26-01-2013 00:05
JVN
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Originally Posted by Ian Curtis
I sit down with my copy of 507 Mechanical Movements every year after kickoff and dream of all kinds of crazy cool mechanisms that will never make it onto the robot.
Definitely super cool. |
Mechanism books are a fun source of inspiration (though they typically inspire simpler solutions).-John
26-01-2013 00:23
s_forbes
Re: pic: Frisbee Elevator
Neato! Sad to see this won't make it into your final robot... it is the most realistic implementation I've seen of a Geneva mechanism into an FRC bot.
I can't think of any offhand, but is there an FRC robot that has successfully used this (or a similar) mechanism in competition?
26-01-2013 03:08
Madison
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Originally Posted by s_forbes
Neato! Sad to see this won't make it into your final robot... it is the most realistic implementation I've seen of a Geneva mechanism into an FRC bot.
I can't think of any offhand, but is there an FRC robot that has successfully used this (or a similar) mechanism in competition? |
02-02-2013 17:19
PingPongPerson
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Originally Posted by Madison
Team 955 used one in 2009.
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