04-03-2014 23:14

Iaquinto.Joe

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This is the greatest thing ever. "How Would Dozer Do?" Is a reality! #DozerSwagLowGoalShots

04-03-2014 23:23

AllenGregoryIV

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New off-season idea, build all the robots from the game animations. Plunger testing is going to be a lot of fun.

Love this dozer.

04-03-2014 23:28

Iaquinto.Joe

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Segway bot is going to be a real challenge. Especially adding in that 2013 jumping capability.

04-03-2014 23:34

Kaushal.K

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now THIS is a statement to FIRST class durability!

A toast to Dozer: May you live 100 seasons and inspire us in all of them.

04-03-2014 23:41

The other Gabe

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THIS IS FANTASTIC

04-03-2014 23:52

Gutsyten42

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This has got to be my favorite robot I've seen all year.. Good job guys

04-03-2014 23:59

dgros

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This is amazing!

Now all it needs is a speaker on it to make little "ah oh" sounds when hit with a ball.

05-03-2014 01:52

DCA Fan

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I second this idea.

05-03-2014 02:12

DampRobot

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I wonder if this robot could win an event just by being really good at assisting, seeding first, and picking well.

Really awesome job with all the detailing, I was convinced the first ten times or so I visited the home page that someone had just posted a screen grab of Dozer from the animation. Bring this to events, I'm sure you'd get a lot of great laughs!

05-03-2014 02:27

Woolly

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This would be a great robot to have around to practice creating assists.
Or in every other year as a stand-in defense robot.

05-03-2014 06:06

Richard Wallace

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Dozer would be a #1 pick, if it could pass inspection. Silly rules about frame perimeter and bumpers ....

05-03-2014 06:09

GaryVoshol

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Dave Lavery needs to make a road trip to Michigan for a photo op.

05-03-2014 06:19

MrBasse

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Thanks for all the kind words, we were surprised nobody had ever built one before.

From my addition to the Dozer thread:

...For our promotional and testing projects we created what we call our "Universal Robotics Platform."

The URP was taking form to be a large, fast, and off road capable machine that we could use for football games to cover the field quickly while carrying a large payload (think t-shirt cannon/s). As it took it's final form, we naturally added a few blue panels and some eyes and got this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-UB_r2Bqo

"Dozer"
36" X 24" X 18"
195 lbs
Optima Red Top Battery
Four CIM Drive through CIMple Boxes
Geared for 32 ft/s to clear a football field in a hurry
Programmed speed defaults to 50% and requires driver input to reach full speed
10" Pneumatic wheelchair tires to handle offroad situations
Servo driven eyes
Almost FRC legal... and we still have to make his blade silver.

05-03-2014 07:26

Joseph Smith

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Love the eyes! You guys should add a mechanism to actuate the shovel.

05-03-2014 08:16

MrBasse

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We had plans for that, the whole thing will be upgraded when we have more time. He needs eyebrows badly, and a front right wheel that taps when he gets impatient.

05-03-2014 08:54

Gilgamesh

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So wonderful

05-03-2014 09:03

tr6scott

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Well Played!

05-03-2014 09:22

mwtidd

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Brilliant!

Your team should start a kickstarter and sell mini dozers.

05-03-2014 09:43

MrBasse

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But mini Dozers would take the fun out of it. Part of the joy of this is that it weighs 200 lbs., can do a nice burnout, travels at speeds that are decent for outdoors (but terrifying indoors), and has a steel frame that we have witnessed destroying our 2x4 low goal without thinking twice about it. The blade is non-functional, but the name Dozer is very well suited.

Honestly, if anyone has leftover kitbot parts from 2011-12 they can build the same thing. The only things that didn't come from the kit of parts was the frame, the non-marring wheels, the battery, some wiring, and a relay block we use for testing. The steel was donated, so I figure we have about $150-$175 into this project and everything else was recycled.

Although...a mini Dozer would probably be fun too...I just can't handle another project right now.

05-03-2014 09:44

mlantry

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Einstein 2014? best robot i've ever seen in FRC history.

05-03-2014 12:53

george.tan

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Can someone build the boot bot now?

06-03-2014 15:50

mc153

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I also agree!

06-03-2014 17:50

Richard Wallace

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Someone did.

06-03-2014 20:35

RedLeader342

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ive been wanting to do this forever

06-03-2014 22:49

Calvin Hartley

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I've always wanted to do this. Props to you for actually doing it.

01-05-2014 15:58

hrench

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our team has been toying with the idea of building li'l dozer for a while, but the kids want to use him as the robot cart. He'll pass that inspection!

01-05-2014 19:35

Clem1640

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Thanks for doing this. Pure genius!