#RI2D
How do you make your hubs?
So does this offseason event revive the game from 1 year ago? Seeing as the event is holding the 2014 game in a 2015 offseason event. Or did the event coordinator decide they didn’t like recycle rush so they went back to Aerial Assist?
Yes. They surveyed teams in the area and found enough were willing to play 2014.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1494109&postcount=3
Yep, they decided to plate Aerial Assist instead of the current game after checking with teams to make sure they would get enough entries.
That’ll make an excellent finisher for sure
Have a quick look at your shot angles and speeds. If your shot accuracy is reasonable, there is one combination that will let you shoot from against the low goal (as shown), or from ~30" out from the low goal (one robot width). That last shot can be really useful against in a pushing match against defense!
realized video was shaky and cropped, so I fixed it and its all better now.
^This.
This actually makes me miss Aerial Assist.
Looks good, watch for 5817’s reveal later this week.
let me guess, you copied them too?
How much deeper can we go?
I thought that was on purpose…
I almost fell out of my chair when I saw you painted it blue.
Any tricks on assembling? The ones we used last year on one of our intakes just took forever.
The fact that that robot actually works better then anything my team has ever built is kinda sad.
They do take awhile, but if you assemble then right the first time, they generally don’t open up over use. Quality of hubs certainly affects this. We’ve only had issues with wheels when they weren’t initially assembled correctly.
If you’ve done it once or twice and have the right tool, it only takes 2-3 minutes and it will never slip. We ran crazy torque on them in 2011 and 2014 and only ones that were assembled with the bead clearly popping out ever slipped.
The tires are 1.9 and 2.2 Chisels from Proline, on Axial 1.9 and 2.2 8 Hole beadlock hubs. We directly hex broach the axial hubs (which yes, unfortunately means you have to buy new hubs each year for comp bot for an essentially COTS part).
Those look about like the hubs we used (Brando brought 'em in to try)
Guess it’s just a practice thing, I remember it getting easier over time but it still seemed to be a pain. Better lighting might have helped.
Very nice! It looks (and performs?) frighteningly like a simplified 254 robot… Just shows how much good design can get you, even if ‘build quality’ isn’t the finest.
Its weird to think about how this video session started almost 3 years ago when 118 just wanted to print some copies.