The idea behind this robot was to get as much utility out of the 10 motor limit and use pneumatics as effectively as possible. Our 8 motor base made for a good pushbot, and having 8 motors for the flywheel was very nice as well, although the fire rate we achieved could easily be achieved with directly driving 4 motors.
However, we found that one of the major issues with a flywheel design like we have is consistency, and the weight of the robot began to become an issue as well. With additions piling on such as our lift mechanism(inspired by team 824C), we decided that there are designs out there that are more efficient and consistent while being much less complex, so we plan to rebuild in the near future.
But before we do, we present our mid-season robot for the 2015-2016 season.
Specs:
8 Motor Transmission
2 Motor Top Roller/Side Conveyor Combo
3 Piston Angle Changer
1 Piston Transmission Shifter
Thanks for the reveal! I got to say this is a really impressive robot! You guys did an exceptional job with the design. This is a really good example of a robot that wastes no space. I saw in the video that you guys had been to an actual competition, and I was curious to know how your robot held up in robot and programming skills.
At our first competition, we got 264 programming skills and 237 robot skills. At our second competition, the balls on the skills field were drastically different from the ones on the competition fields(and the ones that we now had our launcher tuned to) and we were only able to get 95 in robot skills(stopped after shooting the first 32), and didn’t attempt programming skills. We probably could have just turned down the power for the launcher, but who has time for that during a competition
Neat design. It seems like having your chassis and flywheel powered by the same motors on a transmission might get annoying when being defended or lining up a shot though.
Funny you say that. Minus the lift, I also was also working on the shifter idea without even realizing that either your teams were thinking of the same thing.
I think the rubber bands are probably for extra traction.
Since Clean Sweep, 8059 has never appeared at World with a robot design that was the same as in Singapore Vex
And I think this is the same for many other teams as well.
Currently, we have added another 2 more 8059a robots and 1 improved version of 8059a into our stable.
But I don’t think we will be bringing these robots to World. It is mainly for the junior teams to practice.
If 8000B got its puncher to shoot mid/short shots at Bellarmine, your alliance would have been one of the best alliances there, the best speed wise. Honestly, I don’t understand how we(8000D) managed to beat you guys. You guys definitely had the better alliance. Oh well, but your design is still very impressive. See you at the next competition.
How do you shoot without stalling for more than a second?
Great job winning design award at Bellarmine. We were going for design award but got middle school Excellence award. See you at Tracy and awesome robot!
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