WCP 2020 "CC" powered by VEXpro

FIRST General Forum
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We are thrilled to announce our 2020 CC Robot powered by VEXpro!

Related information is available here: http://www.wcproducts.com/cc

Notes/Disclaimers:

  • Recommended to use a sensor to store balls in the column.
  • Don’t need that many falcons but they were tooooooo easy. Lots of space available for other activities.
  • Hanger Hooks need to be wider, we just put them in the easiest/quickest spot
  • We skipped the wheel of fortune, but easy to add.
  • Need to add pneumatic air cylinders to drop down the intake

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Good luck teams!

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Hey guys, I figured out where all the falcons went!

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but muh mecanum wheels!

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But really, love seeing the drive whip around.

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Thank you calling it CC instead of MCC. This thing is way too great to be a minimum competitive concept!

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Would the swinging touch opponent robot(s)?

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Don’t you mean it’s too greyt?

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Spicy. What a robot.

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Was the robot able to pick up power cells not in the center of the intake? I am curious if the mecanum wheels on the outside of the intake arms worked to center the PC.

Edit: Thanks for making this.

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Yeah it can to the edge. The ball hits the 2x1 and stops. We were too lazy to fix this.

Teams can put the tube on the entire outside or make a plate that hangs off the tube.

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I thought they were the only motor we’d ever need?!?!

But seriously, these provide great insight in to what a competitive-yet-not powerhouse robot will look like. The CC team amazes me every year!

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Anyone else thought they opened Tik Tok by accident when this video started playing? :rofl:

Thanks for creating this resource. Between 118’s Everybot, all the Ri3Ds (especially FIRST Capital and Snow Problems), and the various members of the Open Alliance, teams have a lot of different resources to help them design their robots this season.

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What kind of sensors are you using to detect the balls? Is it one in the column looking down, are you counting them as they come in?

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On this robot it was manual, but I would probably throw a few sensors on. The way I would do it:

  1. Leave the intake on full speed
  2. Put a sensor right at the ball entrance so the conveyor turns on when it receives the ball/helps with spacing.
  3. Put a sensor at the entrance of the vertical column so it can maintain spacing.

We (1323) did this in 2012 and it really was money. It was a lot of work to get it perfect so we are moving away from this on the 1323 competition robot. Also so we can shoot this fast.

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I was already convinced, but now I’m certain that this game is going to be insane at high levels.

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Curious as to what bushing / pivot use on the front intake arm?

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How did you retract this arm back in starting position?

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@R.C should have used the plastic bushing shakes head

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Yes… We got real lazy :frowning:

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Hey, I dig it. Nice work y’all

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Very impressed by this. Has inspired my team a lot.

@R.C I see that you are using only one set of rollers along one side of the ball and a stationary backing on the other. Have you had any issues with the balls sticking to each other and not moving through the indexer?

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The CC currently isn’t outfitted with pneumatics, but the original post mentions you’d need to add actuators to deploy and return the intake from starting position.