Team 33, The Killer Bees, are proud to present our robot for the 2024 Crescendo season, Buzz XXIX.
33 will be competing at the Kettering University #1 and Livonia district events.
Good luck to everyone this season!
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3 kraken intake?
Sheesh
If you ever need a speed boost, just touch the rollers to the floor /s
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Wow this looks incredibly compact! What are the dimensions of the frame?
Scores in the trap, but does not climb?
Climbing is overrated, they just fly
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A lot has changed in the past week. Wanted to get something out to showcase the team and students hard work this season, but will provide a more clear update after the weekend.
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could I ask you guys, or anyone else that knows about this “regenerative braking to reserve power consumption” what is it and how we can use it?
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There is now a rule against that…
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Looks like a climber is in the works. Looks like there are some details in the plates that show some climber work.
Great looking robot! I am excited to see it in action at Kettering 
I am always surprised how many hexagons you guys manage to fit on your bots
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Those vertical flapper integration is so cool! How do you keep the infinity belt properly tensioned over that length? Does this make a large, noticeable difference in the ease of picking up?
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Every year I look forward to this robot reveal. Killer Bees, Killer Robot.
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Regenerative braking as in here?
Or something else?
I also don’t quite understand what an over centering bell crank is, I guess I only see bell cranks operating over small ranges of motion, so it may have some cool properties over centering for the purposes of mechanism locking.
(Edit : upon thinking about it I can see a standard toolbox latch being classified as an overcentering bell crank, so 
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Overall there has to be some really cool detail in this bot 
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Hey everyone!
We are making some mods to the robot for our week 4 event. Few days before Livonia load in I will make a big post regarding all our changes and answering some questions as well posted here!
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Wanted to come on here and share a good picture of the robot and additions that we ended up competing with at Michigan State Champs and the Championship.
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Entire new shooter that was used for Livonia, MSC, and champs. Featured a polycarbonate teflon skinned tab-and-slot box that compressed the note side to side down to 12 inches. New shooter was powered by 4x Kraken x60 for each “set” of wheels to be driven independently. This allowed us to be able to increase our consistency moving back to the wing line. A few matches at champs, the auto pathing ended behind the truss and was still drilling shots.
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Fast last-second side climb. This was a big addition for Livonia and allowed us to increase our chances of ranking high due to abandoning the trap right before Kettering. Features a similar mast to our 2020 robot, and has a spring loaded hook that would pop out and grab a single link of the chain similar to 1678 and other teams.
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Fourth limelight in the center of the robot added for MSC for TargetPose, along with hours and hours of software development. This was the biggest change for us between MSC and Champs. We were able to redefine some of the targeting and localization (not a software guy so can’t really comment further than that) in autonomous and teleop that greatly increased our shot accuracy.
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Updated intake to remove the vertical flappers and move to a full width complaint front roller. The flappers worked great in the shop, but after week 1 and new notes + new carpet, the notes were flying like hockey pucks on ice. The full width complaint roller worked very well for us the rest of the season.
The Killer Bees thoroughly enjoyed playing in Hopper this past weekend at champs! We were very fortunate to be able to select and play with 4414 High Tide, 3128 The Aluminum Narwhals, and 8576 Golden Warrior Robotics. This alliance worked great together and was disappointed to see it end early.
We will be competing in many off-season events this summer, feel free to stop by and see the bot! We would be more than happy to answer any questions you may have.
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