Our Internal! Designed and tested by our Team Captain and Driver of 4 years in house, plates are either lexan or ABS. Dual purpose, ran by two BAGs. Wheels are 3in 30a flex wheels (217-6447).
Our external. 16in pistons, ran with a single 775pro, plastic VersaFrame. Cargo transport from external to internal is helped by a plastic âkickupâ bar running along the front of the robot.
Just a general question about the climber design. I saw a few times this season where your robot would get to the HAB with plenty of time left to spare, the âtailâ would drop down and âbounceâ, but the climber wouldnât deploy or would take an extended amount of time to deploy. Do you know what was causing this?
You guys had a great robot this year, looking forward to seeing future robots from you guys!
It weighs ~7 pounds, but we have a couple of ways to make it lighter if we wanted to. It has only ever broken when auton decided to go intake first into a wall, but once we added the ABS hard-stops it broke less. We also used surgical tubing spacers for the rollers on the trolley that the intake is mounted to to add a bit of squish. Hope this helps!
The âtailâ has to latch onto the steel bar going across the top legs of the fourbar, and we used pistons to push the tail down. Either sometimes the carabiners wouldnât latch and we had to give it a little shake with the robot, or the carabiners broke after so much use. You can see us doing the shake here, too.
Hope this helps!
Thanks ,
When I was watching the matches of yours ,I though that your intake is robust . Anyway I am the captian of a rookie team in Turkey and we are inspired by your intake for our off-season robot intake design.
Iâve been wondering this for a while: how come you guys did 4 front pneumatic tires, 4 back omnis rather than 4 corner omnis and 4 middle pneumatics?
We definitely tried everything we couldâve with our 8 wheel setup. We tried having the omnis in the corner but our driver liked rotating around the intake, making placing easier as well as autons.
