Not bad, the video of it was kind of interesting also.
how do you get work done with such a larg team on such a small robot?
Where’s the video?
-Joel
Great looking team and machine. Good luck to all of you.
Gil Huggins, NBCT
Team 343 Metal in Motion
Meet our long armed, wingged beast. Fast as they come, strong as the best. Oooooo…she’s a sweet machine.
Great looking robot! Looks like a pretty efficient, fast low-rider. How’s stacking working out?
Hope you have a great campaign through Houston…
Did you have to tell that tall kid in the back row (left) to duck under the plumbing??? :ahh:
About my signature:
In your case a 1/4" plus is worse than a 1/4" minus!
Greg, it looks like you have had a hair transplant from the top of your head to your face! You promised your team in 1999 to shave your head if the squad brought it home. What about this year? Anyhow the new look is more scholarly. Also, where is MIke C.?
Good luck to you guys, also a top notch program and machine.
Sincerely,
Brian Beatty
Robot looks great, good luck to yah how you guys do great at your comps
I just had to say this picture is a little outdated. Our robot has changed just a little since this… Hope you get to see it at competition. Good luck all!
btw??? What video, and where is it??
I know we took lots of video, but i didn’t know any of it was released…
*Originally posted by Tempest *
**how do you get work done with such a larg team on such a small robot? **
Good question
We split things up very well.
There are some kids that work on compliance, all they do is make sure the robot complies with rules and know how the robot functions very well. They don’t touch the roboto much, just work with alot of CAD drawings and things like that.
There are kids who work on building the robot, they machine stuff and put it together.
There are kids who mainly do electronics. They don’t touch the robot much, except when tweaking control algorithms and figuring out where all their speed controlers r gona fit(our electical team gets the left over realestate).
There are kids who work on chairmans award. They spend most of their time compiling media and contacting the community. They explain FIRST to the community and work on publicity and on chairmans(they spent alot of time this year at local elementary schools teaching younger kids and getting them excited about FIRST Lego)
Then there are a few scragler kids who switch between groups.
This organization system coupled with a “this group gets the robot at this time” schedule, gives us only a few hands on the robot at the same time and it works out great.
There was discussion above of a video.
I followed the link to the Baxter newpaper site, but I could not find a video.
Anybody know where it is and wether it is worth seeing?
Do tell…
Joe J.
As far as I know there was no video released, but I asure you that if there was, its well worth watching:)
*Originally posted by Joe Johnson *
**There was discussion above of a video.I followed the link to the Baxter newpaper site, but I could not find a video.
Anybody know where it is and wether it is worth seeing?
Do tell…
Joe J. **
Its funny, really… I went over to Baxter Bomb Squad’s website, and saw a link to videos on their main page:
http://www.baxterbulletin.com/ads/bombers/robot1.wmv
http://www.baxterbulletin.com/ads/bombers/robot2.wmv
http://www.baxterbulletin.com/ads/bombers/robot3.wmv
People, these are the types of teasers I like cough45cough 
Love the end effector! Very cool suction cup. Can it also suction down to the plastic? I didn’t look close enough to see if the arm had enough range of motion to get all the way down there.
Without a doubt, though - the coolest stacking end effector yet.
Wow big team! Great looking bot too. Good luck this year guys! 
The suction cup has been moved/altered. No, that suction cup dosent suck down on the hdpe. For the most part, those last two video’s are useless in evaluating our robot as they are very outdated.
Those videos are beautiful. The wings are MUCH more effective than I initially thought they would be, the drive speed is absolutely top-notch, I can only wonder where the suction cup is now, but I’m sure it’s new place is even more impressive and even more useful, and if ::EDIT those last two EDIT:: are out-dated videos with which we can’t judge your robot by…
You must have a truly great robot in store for the competition…
Great work. Good luck.
aTm
The first video is still very accurate