We are proud to present the 2024 Robonauts robot, Twister
Twister will be competing at:
FIT District Katy Event
Green Country Regional
Tallahassee Regional
FIT District Houston Event
FIT District Space City
FIRST Championship
Best of luck to all teams!
How dose the note goes up the turret?
The bot cooks and all, but really at 1:49 am? I was just about to sleep and now I have to spend hours trying to figure this out.
All jokes aside, congrats on another gorgeous robot. And it is a lot of gorgeous robot, and that is a lot of events! Glad we’re going to be able to see Twister a lot over the next 8 weeks 
Could be wrong… but we think it might just be note abuse:
Especially looking at all that cheeto dust in and around the turret ring. You can do a lot with two rollers spinning in opposite directions and with enough surface speed and torque. Or to quote @afreakingbear:
if you shove it into the spinny rollers enough
eventually it goes in
This is probably a good place for me to stop for the night. Not exactly hours, but I had some fun.
Absolutely amazing.
Now I have another reason to shoot for Houston 
Yeah unfortunately they’ve cut the spinny bits out of the video. I’ve got an idea of how 4414 is doing it (see their latest Instagram post) but this thing is different for sure.
Not to derail but your beating me - looking at their latest insta post I thought I understood it, but upon further thinking I’m not so convinced.
I’m just guessing that for 4414 the note gets dumped loosely onto a flat plate, so to speak, and then the turret’s feed rollers can access the note from any side. I’ll see on Sunday once I make it out to Port Hueneme I guess.
I was kidding…
I’m just curious how you figure out the maximum amount to be able to pocket. (I always struggle knowing how much should be left/removed)
When we do it at 696 we just go by look, really. Whenever we have parts like that they’re 1/4” thick aluminum, so it’d be pretty hard to overdo it. Generally we do a 1/4” web thickness on what’s left and we connect all screw hoes with webs, but then we just draw out pockets until it looks “light enough” and not ugly.
I was in our pit a couple years back and a mentor from another team came up with one of his students saying “See what they do here- they do analysis to see how much they can lighten their parts!” I chuckled a bit and told him we just go by vibes.
I usually do a line connecting the holes then offset .25 to either side, guess I can switch it to .125 and be a little less conservative with it.
I usually do 0.125" on each side for tube. 0.25" for gear plates.
Is this a mini PC under the chassis?
Maybe a network switch.
I like doing it the way they design bridges.
Not really the attitude to have. Please tone it down and remember Gracious Professionalism.
Great take:
Not so great take:
Find a way to get to know the students and mentors on 118. I’ll bet you change your take a bit if you just… find a way to go talk to them.
