6 CIM 6WD Drivetrain / 3 CIM GTPO Climber
2 775pro Under The Bumper Gear Intake
Pneumatic Gear Eject/Placement
Special thanks for design inspiration goes to frc4481, frc2200, frc180, frc5687 and frc67
Amazing job getting it built, and then performing to such a high standard! Watching the POV camera from behind the driver’s station was a treat, I don’t think I’ve seen any robot cycle a game piece as quickly as you could get a gear.
I knew it!
Looks pretty great. Hats off to you guys for pulling it off again.
You guys were insanely fast over the weekend, I don’t remember the last time I saw a robot faster than yours.
I was volunteering as a field reset over the weekend and was really wondering how you were able to pick up the gears so fast and uniquely. I was looking at it closely over the weekend and I concluded it was magic! I know it’s similar to the Rembrandts’ (4481) pickup, but would you mind sharing a few pictures or explanations of the pickup as to how it works? I’m really interested 
Congrats and the rebuild, the win, and the Chairman’s!
“Walk in with one robot, walk out with another.”
Very few teams in FIRST are daring (let alone crazy) enough to attempt to perform a complete redesign after their first competition, and those that do would be hard pressed to execute it as well as 558 did. The few issues that you guys did encounter were remedied with a great deal of swiftness and precision and you seem to have crafted one of the most effective gearbots of 2017.
It was an honor to get to work with you again this year and we can’t wait to see you all at dcmp in a few days (49 hours and 12 minutes until load in but who’s counting?). Congratulations on the successful redesign as well as your incredibly well deserved Chairman’s win.
Needs title correction: Brick 2.1. 2.0 was distinctly Saturday’s robot.
Why Brick 2.1 you ask? Anyone around for 2011 needs to see Brick 2.0 demonstrate minibot climb times on a full sized FRC robot. Someone dig through NE Hartford Saturday Qual matches near the end of the day to see (and link plz or no upboats!) what I’m talking about…
Also… “3CIM GTFO climber” should be amended to “3 CIM GTFU climber”. I’ll let you guess the acronym
Yeah, GTFU climber seems to be an appropriate acronym :rolleyes:
It doesn’t even fly off when it gets to the top like the minibots tended to
That is a ridiculous climb…
A redo without the forward momentum when grabbing the rope (perfect link D, thanks!) would be even more dank. I called it as sub-second, and got the FTA(A) out there looking to see if the touchpad survived.
Beautiful 
558’s climb is certainly STYLISH! But then again, 558 never does anything the boring way
How is your rope loop made? It pulls out incredibly quickly.
Is climber always running off one side of the drive train?
Also I love the rebuild, can we get rid of the bag already so more teams can improve like this.
Our Pilot claims that he needed to reassure other Pilots that: “No, we will not tear the Airship down, it just feels that way”
@eric … GTFU … LOL!!
Looks like a small piece of velcro sewn on
The team thanks you for all the positive feedback, I’ll do my best to answer your questions. For the design of the intake it’s best to go right to the sources of inspiration for it, we used frc4481’s double roller design to get the gear to the right height and frc2200’s backplate and polycarbonate “spring” concept.
As for our rope, it is indeed a small piece of hook and a small piece of loop about 10-12" apart that we stick together to create our slack loop. We did this so that it would be the same every time and we would not have to rely on knot.
The climber is running all the time off of one side of our drivetrain via an additional 3:1 chain reduction (it was 2:1 at the beginning of Hartford but we were able to find and machine a new sprocket on Saturday afternoon thanks to frc181).
For two years in a row our crazy students with the support of our mentors have read the rules an determined how to legally build an entire new machine between events. At this point, we see the bag as a complication to constant iteration but not a roadblock. We documented how we did things last year on The Blue Alliance Blog, if there is enough interest we can definitely do this again.
Yeah, you guys don’t take airships down… just the wooden davit at Suffield. The “Tarzan climb,” as one of our scouters termed it, was always fun to watch.
In any case, massive props on the redesign and rebuild, and best of luck at DCMP (29 hours?). I know myself and a couple others at 4557 would love to see the process documented.
Skip post a pic of the other brick
