Robot Design

FIRST General Forum
#1

Is it legal, or even possible to have a robot that is essentially a huge square that fills the 36 by 30 by 60 inch dimensions, that is within weight constraints that has arms that extend to then capture all the balls in autonomous mode?

Well, yes, but my creativity comes here.

What if in autonomous, that robot had a mini robot (powered by fisher price motors :)) that was tethered with realllly long cables that would run out and trip the 10 point ball. A little “helper” to trigger the release and have the robot cap all the balls.

If i could go back about 2 months… that is what i would start designing :slight_smile:

#2

This was discussed in a thread that was started right after the game was announced. This thread.

#3

a bot with tethered mice-bots would drag wires around the field

breaking the rule againts designs that are prone to entanglement

most likely would not be allowed.

#4

what if you had 2 bots that started as one but could split and be controlled seperately?

#5

then you would need two radios…which is illegal

#6

well for the tether you could just make a 20 foot tall reel that the tether line could come out of and be winched back into (could also serve as a hangnign winch eh eh?)

#7

there was a team who was making a tethered winch that would crawl up and onto the bar. and once it was up, would reel in the winch. cool concept, but not likely.

#8

That was my idea - the VAR (Vertical Adjustment Rover)… unfortunately, FIRST deemed it illegal. But the thread below has some nice pics:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24831&highlight=var

#9

If i could go back about 2 months… that is what i would start designing :slight_smile:

AHHHH, If if were a skif…
we’d all be sailors!

#10