Ok, so our robot is now in a HUGE box being sent down to Las Vegas… and we still have alot of work to do when we get there. Oh and we have never actually run our robot. :eek:
Here’s whats left for us to do:
Wire the whole thing(motors, sensors, camera)
Fix our catapult (yes we are using a catapult and it works awsome!!! except for the fact that when we mounted our camera in the wrong spot and it gets in the way and won’t load.)
Program it(we do have part of it done, but not even close to all of it.)
Mount sides on it and place stickers.
Fix Wheels (Maybe)
Probubly some other things that I’m too tired to remember right now.
So I was just wondering if we are the only team that is in this situation. Let me know.
PS here is a picture of our robot when we shipped it today:
We are a rookie team and we are going crazy. Our ball catcher broke right before we put into the crate to be shipped. Our air defense system fell apart at the last second and we are all ready to kill each other…it is like a bad nightmare for all of us…
But since we are rookies, I guess that it is to be expected…who knows, hopefully we will pull it together
Get final mass
Wire it.
Sides and stickers
Vacuum foot traction material and local gravity amp(s)
Dial software PID’s and timing. Set auto mode launch speeds.
We are done. We just need more practice on it. Our Robot was done, but after the DC Scrimmage, we modified some stuff and tested it again.
Even one hour before the shipping time, we ran our final tests on the shooter and it worked perfectly. We do got some programming issues, but i guess first day of competition will be more than enough to fix minor problems.
We are done, but as a precaution we shipped the bot with an engineer so he can fine tune it. He has plenty of Snicker bars and juice. wonders, did we put air holes in the box. Oh well
Bot weighs 118 pounds.
Megamaid is now two pounds underweight (asuming they use the same scale), thanks to the almighty Rotex punch.
Autonomous was never tested, and there are some minor issues with ball cloggage and a slightly flimsey gate. We can however spew a perfect column 2 balls wide at a fairly high rolling speed and get on the ramp, so I guess we are mostly done.
We’re pretty much done. We still have to construct our hopper and get our camera controling our bot. Other than that we have the base, shooter, wiring, etc. done.
we might be a pound or 2 over but we still have plenty that we can remove. It could be used out of the crate but could be tuned a bit to make it perfect.
Programming wise driver control is done and auto aim works. Autonomous wise we can put it where we want it and it will shoot accuratly we just need the drive code added so it can drive to where we want it to be.
Sunday, robot is being finished, looking evil and better than any other that we’ve seen so far, pretty cocky, I know, until it was time to weight it :ahh: …44 punds over-weigh!!!What are we going to do We had to take off the shooter and had a set up robot that has no use of the area that the shooter used to take up…o yeah, and our ball collector is still jaming! I said to change the motor from a fisher-price to a CIM since it’s pushing five balls up…My mentor said: Are you out of your mind??? :ahh:
That’s our story, we felt the worst feeling taking all the welding parts off, now we weigh 108 without the addins that im thinking about right now.
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except for the fact that when we mounted our camera in the wrong spot and it gets in the way and won’t load.)
We had to take off the shooter and had a set up robot that has no use of the area that the shooter used to take up…o yeah, and our ball collector is still jaming! I said to change the motor from a fisher-price to a CIM since it’s pushing five balls up…My mentor said: Are you out of your mind??? :ahh: