pic: Team 8's Odin at Portland

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#1

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team 8’s completed and working robot, ready to hurdle

quick specs:
3’6" tall, 120 lbs (exactly)
bumpers on three sides
“it’s a catapult!”
drivetrain:
6wd, middle lowered
custom gearboxes, faster than supershifters or toughboxes
15fps

accumulator:
outlined here: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/30882

launcher:
pneumatic, on a lever arm
release angle compromises between vertical and horizontal launch
approximately 8’ ball-bottom height
innovative dual-flow pneumatics for shoot AND place

sensors:
drivetrain quadrature encoders
rangefinder for ball
potentiometers monitor position of both arms
IR sensor for hybrid

#2

This is a very cool robot. It doesn’t look like a launcher… it looks like a lifter driving backwards. Then whammo! The ball is flying through the air.

Can’t wait for the video to be posted.

Jason

#3

we had some problems with one of the pots on the arms on saturday, but they have since been resolved. see you next week!

#4

What happened to that tiny robot you had early in the build season?

This one looks great though.

#5

not sure what you mean here…
we kept a pretty tight lid on our shop during the build season, and i don’t remember any tiny bots.

#6

He might be thinking of team 5, who, IIRC, have a small lap robot.

#7

Nice idea about the alternative flows for phnematics, our team was going to try that, but our launcher failed miserably… any way, hope you do well and I wish you luck with those pots, I don’t like them.:smiley:

#8