Bomb Squad presents their 2016 robot - Black Widow.
http://i.imgur.com/FkZUb2C.png
See http://frcteam16.com/ for more updates!
Video credits - Sean Munson, Dylan Ryan, and Jonathan White
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Hands down the best robot so far. Great work this year!
That hang :o
Looks great! Brilliant minds think alike! I love how your design reminds me of my teams yet has plenty of differentiating characteristics! (12 wheel drive! :eek: )
#swervetankhybrid
Looking forward to competing with and against you guys in Rocket City.
4 Inch wheels are a pretty slick adaptation. Big fan. Hope to play with you at Arkansas
Beautiful
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Amazing! Can always count on swerve!
I think the swerve stutter on the sally door was my favorite part. Incredible robot as usual!
aaah amazing! loving the swerve drive and the lights are the perfect touch wow
Every year, I look at y’all’s robot, and I remark to myself that your drivetrain is one of my favorite mechanisms in all of FRC; it is so refined and perfected, and y’all execute it so well. And it doesn’t hurt that whatever you put on top of the drivetrain is always great as well. This year I really didn’t think anyone would have good success with a swerve without a crazy amount of complexity, but once again The Bomb Squad produced a spectacular robot with a mesmerizing drive. Thank you for inspiring us all every year to keep innovating, your robots and team are a model of success.
Lots of requests for pictures of the drive base during the reveal show.
Thanks to JTN for the comp bot pic. Apologies to anybody who saw that practice bot mess. 
You caught me as I was fixing it. Imgur is hard. 
Try again.
Looks great as always - almost like looking in a mirror, except yours goes sideways. Love the swerve tank. I can see you went through the same design problems we did with the arm, shooter, hanger implementation. I like the way you solved them though.
Does the arm back drive if you don’t get the chassis all the way up? Or are you not high enough if you don’t go the rest of the way up?
See you in St. Louis.
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Gorgeous robot guys! Hopefully we will get to see it in action at Championships!
It doesn’t back drive. Horizontal to the floor gets the scale. Going all the way up puts less stress on the cylinder rods and clears out the bumber zone for the climber me next to us. We also think it looks pretty cool.
Thanks for the kind words. See you in STL.
Fantastic robot! I love the novel way you packaged the wheeled shooter into the arm.
Hey Mike. To answer your questions, no and no. See image below instead of my previous wordy explanation.
Edit: Just uploaded a screenshot of the video at about when it is legally “scaled” although it may not have to be this high: http://imgur.com/CEDBxdo
That is one beautifully-complex drivebase. Love it. Another great machine from the Bomb Squad. See you in STL!
What a bot!!! Way to go Bomb Squad! Love the integration work that went into that one mechanism. Floor pickup, climber, and shooter! Cannot wait to play with you guys in just a week!
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