Extremely quick background on 254’s 2017 robot for “normal” people:
- Won 5 blue banners, 2 Regionals, Worlds Division, St. Louis Worlds, and Festival of Champions
- #2 in the world for EPA
If people want to reply to this thread please read 254’s amazing technical binder first, it will answer many of your questions!
Actual Message:
Hi anyone on 254,
I am working on making a robot concept for the WCP design challenge and I now started working on making an intake for the ELECTROLYTES game piece that is a 5” diameter wiffle balls same as the “fuel” game piece from the 2017 game. I want to copy your intake from that year so I know that the dimensions I land on have a high likelihood of working. I know this is not needed for a CADathon but is good practice for a real season. Following the motto of “Steal from the best, invent the rest” I want to ask the anyone that I know have a good working design before I try to sketch something else up. I have some main questions listed here:
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Do you mind posting any screen shots of your cad if you can find it with the spastic intake dimensions. I know some info from your tech binder but it would be good to also know the roller c-c distance and the distance off the ground the first roller is.
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Are there any major lessons learned from making the ball path of that robot? Things that worked well, things to avoid?
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With the drivetrain of choice now being swerve would you have changed anything about your robot design from that year?
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