Posted by Erin. [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]
Student on team #1, The Juggernauts, from Oakland Technical Center-Northeast Campus and 3-Dimensional Services.
Posted on 4/2/2000 10:31 PM MST
I hope Brandon, Mr. Martus and the gang don’t mind us using this space to advertise 
So if you do, this is my advance apology.
Here goes-
Basics: We can hang, 4x drive, turret (very versatile), arm lift, 2 gripper scoring system (always gets the job done) fast yet full of power, able to defend the pole and ourselves…as well as our alliance.
Juggy (formerly known as Juggernaut) Can easily pick up 2 balls and is consistently efficient in being able to get those balls right into the trough. We can easily slide on over to the opponent’s trough and drop some in (during seeding rounds only, of course!) We have a 4 wheel drive base which enables us to drive using not only a great amount of torque (not sure of ft./lbs.) but also with speed and agility. Our ‘U’ shaped drive base easily enables us to sit atop the ramp and defend (we also pull great offense–read, 2 Best Offensive Awards out of 2 regionals). The ‘U’ shape helps us stay atop the ramp and makes our opposition have a harder time pushing us ‘up and over’. Our drill motors drive our wheels; which, as everyone knows, makes one of the strongest drive systems. Sitting atop our base is our ‘ever-famous’ turret, which rotates 360 degrees and helps our arms in their easy manuverability. Our two arms are lifted by the FP motor (using lead-screw). This has proved to be very strong and is able to lift not only balls but other robots up (in many directions, as you may know). On the end of our arms is, what Royal Fusion named ‘The Most Unique Method of Collecting and Distributing Sperical Goal Units’. It is a gripper system, which holds two balls, one in each gripper (as I said, always gets the balls in!) These are operated by the window motors (I believe-this wasn’t my area). We hang by extended angeled aluminum hooks that stem off of our end-effector. We latch on and raise- which makes it 99% impossible to lift us off (we once had one lifted off- yet still successfully did our ‘chin-up’). One of our most impressive moves is when we latch on to the pole and rotate our turret so we can drive parallel to the peak of the ramp. This was extremely effective in keeping other robots off of the pole. We are also able to load from the human player station and right ourselves when needed. Our driving team consists of a previous driver (of National Championship fame) and a rookie driver on base (who, I must say, has LASTING skill and makes fast decisions.) Our human player can make 4 to 5 out of 10 and has been consistent in getting in the black ball. Our coaches as well, are veterans to the competition and make strong decisions. When we are picked, we do our best not to let our alliance down. When we run into problems, our team forms together fast and we get those problems solved in a fast, organized manner (which i am very proud of). For those of you that took the time to read this, THANK YOU! We also have many tricks up our sleeve… and if you are interested in more information, e-mail or contact me at ErinLinT1@aol.com and I will be more than overjoyed to relay all kinds of information to you about our robot- or anything else you need help with.
Thanks!
-‘Do not just hang; but OWN the pole.’
-erin
yes yes yes, this is my second time posting