http://www.flickr.com/photos/59668537@N05/8496945621/
no electronics, no pneumatics, no sensors, fully automatic
Ingeniously simple.
This is awsome
Absolutely genius. I love it.
Another loss for Rube Goldberg.
Woodie would be proud of this K.I.S.S. design.
Well done and Good luck this season
Thats brilliant
Elegant.
And one moving part. Excellent. Kudos.
Now that’s just pure mechanical poetry.
Looking forward to seeing you guys on the field in Wisconsin again! Maybe we’ll get the chance for a 2010 reunion tour. Best of luck, guys!
Most definitely!
Having a 706 student explain this disc flipper and then seeing it work on the practice field this past Sunday was one the highlights of the scrimmage. Such a simple and effective solution. Hopefully this is the year you guys break through.
Thanks for all the kudos. to bad our floor pick up end game strategy took a big hit yesterday.
Still, it’ll be fun.
See ya in Milw and Cinci.
Take a look at the flipper in action in the completed robot!
Wow. That is elegant. Wish I’d thought of it.
Make sure the judges see that on Friday morning when they come to your pit! Absolutely brilliant!
Jason
Brilliant. Just brilliant.
I love it. Great Job!
Our team really had troubles with the indexing of the frisbees and how or if to even flip the discs. We decided in the end that instead of trying to deal with flipping them to just reject them totally, and move on to another disc since we believed that there would be plenty of other discs on the floor. Here is the footage of us picking up the discs right side up and then again at 1:30 rejecting the upside down discs. We did this by the slot between the 2 levels of the elevator and using the top curve of the disc as a guide of sorts to filter the discs up or out of the elevator.
One that’s a very cool way to handle this problem. Two I’ve probably watched your reveal about 3 times and I finally realized that you were just switching your octocanum to hang which is a great idea, I hadn’t looked that closely before.