Wave Robotics Team 2826 is proud to present our submission for this years game.
Actual picture shown is practice bot Farquad
-1 for lack of bench grinder.
-1 for lack of LEDs.
-1 for lack of powdercoat.
Oh, and you’re too short. You’re like the Rudy of FIRST Stronghold. What advantage do you think that gives you, anyways? 
Looking forward to finally seeing you in action this weekend, guys. I’ll enjoy watching you prove me wrong. 
Seriously, guys. Looking good. Wish we could be up there competing with you again, but the scheduling gods hate us, apparently. Maybe next year we’ll be able to make the return to Milwaukee. Here’s hoping. Good luck this weekend!
Looks very well packaged. Can you talk about how your scaler works a bit? Besides it looking like a winch powered system, I got nuthin’.
Best of luck this year!
Any chance of a video of it in action coming soon? 
Got to take a peek at this one Sunday (Thanks for letting us come hang out!) - excited to see the real one in a few days.
Current set up is the hooks are held back by pneumatic cylinders (not on at time of picture) when the cylinders retract the claws shoot up (via tensioned surgical tubing) and grab the side bars, winch then pulls us up.
Do I spy a turret?
Those hooks confuse me.
They’re spring loaded and once they clear the arm they spring vertical.
It would seem as though you are correct. :yikes:
Ok, the green cord is meant to extend the hanging arm or retract? i can’t figure out how it could do both. Can you explain? I’d love to see this thing in action. If I head down to STL for champs I’m going to find your pit.
Oh, whoops, I missed this. Thanks for the explanation!
The cord is just wrapped for the picture, it will be used to pull us up. We didn’t want to waste the time to put the cord into the tube, which is where it will be stored during the match before the hooks are deployed.
So scaling sequence.
Drive onto batter
Lift arm
Release hooks
Winch up.
If we make it to St. Louis we have a different scaling mechanism designed. The hooks will most likely be the same, our winch system will just be different.
I forsee at least two turrets at Wisconsin this year
Nice job Eric, Nik and Team 2826. Good luck this weekend!
If I may what are the wheels/pulleys on outside of intake for?
They are there to help with manipulating defenses. We are able to push the arm down and lift the “back” of the robot up to easily go over the cheval, and under the portcullis and low bar.
Got ya. For some reason was thinking they rode the floor during intake of Boulder.