Well, this is my first ever entry to the FIRST Inventor Design competition… but I’ve been doing Inventor work for about three years now (its my Senior year now, and I’ve actually got a job at a biofuels company doing their mockups and models).
Anyways, this whole work is a solo effort, nobody on my team knows how to use this software. I had the benifit to be at Francis Tuttle PreEngineering Academy for my sophomore year of school before moving away (I think they are team 1561), so I’ve actually had some formal training (though all the wiring and a lot else is new to me).
Here’s a smaller, low res pictures, click the link below it for a different angle and much much higher res.
Thanks. Now that this junk computer downloads it so I can see it, that is awesome. I can’t wait to see it in action. Hopefully somebody posts videos of all the matches. Can’t remember where I saw it last year.
Awsome! The lighting is among the best I have seen. Although the green balls just grab the attention away from you beutiful electrical and pneumatic systems. Are the supposed to be tennis balls?
The lighting is an edited take on “Display” lighting, so about half and half, the lighting levels were adjusted as were positions. The color gradient is custom as well. I’m currently workin’ on some wallpaper/print-worthy colorations and such… as well as getting some videos of it in action.
Still workin’ on the videos, but our team has made some wallpapers for our members if they want ‘em, kinda as a reminder of the competition comin’ up. So… no harm in postin’ em here as well. Enjoy. Or don’t.
First off, this is an amazing render. The fact that you did this all by yourself is nothing short of incredible, and I expect that you’ll be picking up a fair amount of hardware this season for your efforts.
On the bad news side of things, is it just me, or does this robot look to be substantially longer than 80" in the down position? I’m thinking that from the left tennis ball to the rear right corner must be at least 100", and it doesn’t even have bumpers yet.
I’m soooo happy someone noticed that. The zipties were pretty last minute on my part… but I couldn’t leave em off… same with all the nuts on all of the bolts, its just not right to have one without the other.
I was happily perusing the submissions and I must say yours caught my eye. You say you did it solo? That is incredible, I have to add my own predictions of success for your entry, very impressive!
We won our Lone Star regional and we won a design control innovation award, and in the process our lead mentor (and my Physics and also Electronics teacher) made himself look like he’s crying and hollering in the Houston Chronicle. Hahah.