With bag day going away there has been lots of talk about teams making more module robots so that parts can be switched out easier. If your team is doing this what sort of design changes are you making? I have made some designs that I can post later that incorporate weight reduction with mounting holes and using universal mounts.
We’re skipping the modular robot and going straight to modular students. We figure if we can more quickly change out student attributes we’ll be able to better adapt to the game.
2702 students next year:
No but honestly, we don’t plan on changing our designs all that much. In fact, we may take it in the other direction and build robots that aren’t as modular as we used to. Not having to move mechanisms over from practice robot to competition robot before competitions is going to be huge for us.
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We were a team that made 2 robots so we did not have to worry about moving things over, however with the comp bot no longer being bagged we are looking at swapping in different mechanisms as they are prototyped.
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We also built two robots. But after all the improvements/iterations we went through on the practice bot between bagging and competition, there was no way we’d be able to replicate them in our 6 hour unbag time + load in day pit time. So we’d just transfer over the “upgraded” mechanism from the practice bot to the competition bot.
Ahh so you are talking about a standardization of mounting holes? We use the kitbot which has standard mounting holes. They make attaching to the drivetrain much easier. I know when we build a west coast drive next summer we are going to have standard mounting holes in the drive rails because it makes it possible to produce a drivetrain earlier in the season and leaves it open for development. However we generally don’t use a standard pattern on mechanisms that attach to the drivetrain, mostly because they are planned and if we change the mechanism most of the parts are changing anyway.
I understand what you’re saying. We generally don’t have a standard mounting hole pattern and make stuff directly for our parts which is why we are going to switch it up.
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