So I joined team 3553 around week 3 of build. This team has an awesome awesome mentor base who I LOVED spending 20+ hours with these past two days. Boeing and Lockheed Martin engineers + UPenn + Drexel students + 357’s mentors = fun times at the shop.
Red tape, snow days, the Philly school district’s rules, and administrative set backs had the team working with very limited restrictions, and by week 5 we had very little to show for our efforts. (South Philly High School is a VERY difficult place to run a team from). Ask 357 what pile of parts we showed up with to their shop Saturday morning…
20 hours later we have this going. Waiting to be wired up, minibot deployment set up, and coded. We have a lot to do, but I think we can get it done.
We will be at Philadelphia with a finished robot hopefully (but DONE is a 4 letter word). The Dragonfly will hopefully be in full force at that point.
HUGE thank you to Ryan Dognaux and his team 357, Royal Assault at Upper Darby High School for this weekend. All we needed was a place to work, some tools, and some great friends to work alongside with.
To any team who shares our situation- go find a veteran team to help you out.
Priority is as follows: get it driving and blocking > minibot stuffs > ubertube scoring. Minibot deployment/control system might stay with us for the weight allowance.
@Chris, we will avoid having our alliance block the field during gameplay, as I agree with update 10 that it would make the game very boring. The wheels will not be chained 1) due to complexity in chain path and 2) we’ll only be driving side to side with the wings down. Wings will be folded up before we turn the bot.
Did I mention that the mentors (JJ (Boeing), John (Boeing), David (Lockheed), and Agata (UPenn)) are awesome? They have so much fun with FRC. Everything outside the kit has so far been paid for by JJ’s credit card. We NEED to fundraise and fast!
Like I said before Stogi, job well done man. I really can’t wait to play with this guy in Philly and see how you guys do. After seeing these pictures, the light at the end of the tunnel is becoming brighter and brighter.
Too bad team update 10 ruled out using two robots to create a barricade. Take 3553 and another robot and you should be able to shut an entire lane or maybe even home zone, down.
Oh let me know how you guys do in competition. I had a very similar idea and my idea got shot down. I assume you guys would be “playing” break out(http://www.arcadebond.com/games/images/breakout_game.jpg) outside the scoring zone?
“Interested” is an understatement. I’ve been a fan of this design since the moment I saw it. I’m a huge fan of creative defense and am excited to see how this design works. If it does well, we might see more bots like this in the future to help balance the offense/defense ratio a bit. So far, this is my favorite design I’ve seen on here.
You mind if I call your dragonfly the siege tank? In the face of adversity is where everyone shines. All teams face a varying degree, but congratulations for you guys getting past yours’. Cannot wait to see video recordings of you guys in Philly.
