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By: Owen Busler
New: 27-10-2016 20:34
Updated: 28-10-2016 11:51
Views: 1455 times
Good evening CD,
Team 303 will be attending a "trunk or treat" this Sunday. For those of you who don't know, a trunk or treat is when families go trick or treating by walking from car to car and getting candy from a trunk. Most of the cars will be decorated Halloween themed but Team 303 wanted to do more. We decided to make a Halloween themed robot to toss candy at kids. In the video you can see our robot shooting kit-katz at team members. If the shot is too hard we can always turn it down with the pressure regulator. Just wanted to share our "spooky" robot"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkvFFwMU6dA
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07-11-2016 13:52
LiterallyMatty
Re: pic: Team 303 Spider Robot
This is the only time it is acceptable to receive candy from a white van.
07-11-2016 14:11
Ari423
Re: pic: Team 303 Spider Robot
I'm interested to see how the pneumatics will stand up to hours of continuous usage. Unless you specifically bought a compressor with a 100% duty cycle, many of the common compressors used in FIRST will only work at 10% of max efficiency after 10 minutes of continuous usage. When we bring robots to community events, we always try to bring ones without pneumatics. Otherwise, we have to give the robot frequent pneumatic cool-down breaks and even then we still sometimes melt the plastic tubing.
07-11-2016 16:32
Owen Busler
Re: pic: Team 303 Spider Robot
This is the compressor we used:
http://team358.org/files/pneumatic/4...on25875-03.pdf
(Thanks 358 for the spec sheet)
We have run this at multiple demos at around a 30% duty cycle for 2-4 hours with no problems. In the end it gets a little toasty, but its been working for a good 20 demos now in addition to being used many years ago on one of our competition bots.
07-11-2016 17:53
Ari423
Re: pic: Team 303 Spider Robot
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Originally Posted by Owen Busler
This is the compressor we used:
http://team358.org/files/pneumatic/4...on25875-03.pdf (Thanks 358 for the spec sheet) We have run this at multiple demos at around a 30% duty cycle for 2-4 hours with no problems. In the end it gets a little toasty, but its been working for a good 20 demos now in addition to being used many years ago on one of our competition bots. |
07-11-2016 18:47
Owen Busler
Re: pic: Team 303 Spider Robot
That was a pretty rough estimate. We have 4 air tanks on the bot and we do some driving and disable-ing to allow the community to take a closer look at the bot. Between that and down time for batteries id say 30-40 percent is pretty accurate.
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