We’re looking forward to the chance to continue making great resources for the FRC community!
Live stream: https://www.twitch.tv/snowproblemz
Videos: Youtube
Updates: Twitter
White papers: In this thread
Thanks to our generous sponsors: University of Minnesota, AndyMark , and The Thrifty Bot .
18 Likes
dydx
January 4, 2020, 6:59pm
2
We’re starting our strategy session soon on twitch.tv/snowproblemz
dydx
January 5, 2020, 3:04am
3
We’re working hard on our prototypes!
Video:
We’ve just published our strategy whitepaper including our game analysis and robot design overview:
10 Likes
Three new videos today!
Our telescoping climber deployment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pLnWdnCo54
Roulette spinner mechanism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr2JqvhA8lQ
Hook deployment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZSnOCxDZNw
We’ll be posting thorough rundowns of all of our mechanisms in video and paper form within a few days. Watch the live stream tomorrow to see our robot come together!
2 Likes
Will you guys have a cad available that will show how the telescoping arm works. Especially the bearings setup
2 Likes
jvdiv
January 6, 2020, 2:03pm
7
We will release our full cad model on Tuesday. It is fairly complete, and shows the 3d printed bearings for the telescoping arm.
2 Likes
We’ve just published our prototyping whitepaper summarizing our prototyping efforts.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1EjR37Z127Kau2E4r8mj-UvrsFVRQLyDk
Our technical overview paper (coming within the next few days) will summarize our final mechanism designs.
We also have another video about our manufacturing process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnOm_xPKTxg
1 Like
hrench
January 7, 2020, 5:35pm
9
It’s a little cascade elevator.
Sometime hard to get back into the start position, but works okay. Can be made from aluminum tubing too.
'Snow Problem is proud to present our 2020 robot, HYPERION: https://youtu.be/YWBEkI4QBIw
13 Likes
The robot looks great guys! Very inspirational as always. Showing off an effective climber on a low robot is a huge accomplishment.
3 Likes
Love how you guys managed to get every little thing packed on to that tiny robot! Looks great!
jvdiv
January 8, 2020, 2:42pm
13
Our CAD model is now available on GrabCAD !
8 Likes
We’ll call our robot " 'snow problem " if you want to play that game
12 Likes
Great job! I really like that climber
1 Like
It’s awesome to see Snow Problem still cranking out great bots, videos, and whitepapers. Super cool robot this year, and I look forward to seeing the robots it inspires at competition!
5 Likes
Control panel mechanism looks really good. It helps that it is also very compact so you can put in larger mechanisms for climbing and shooting.
dydx
January 8, 2020, 9:56pm
18
We’ve just released our technical walkthroughs of the robot in video and paper forms. The latter includes some extra technical information.
Our code is here .
Please feel free to ask questions about the build!
5 Likes
rj9
January 9, 2020, 1:13am
19
Did you have any issues with jamming in the hopper or the power cells rubbing/sticking when you were intaking or holding multiple power cells?
1 Like
dydx
January 9, 2020, 1:25am
20
We had a limited ability to test this as we only had 2 power cells, but we didn’t experience anything like this with our hopper design.
1 Like