Here is a video of our 2007/2008 FTC robot. We will be debuting it at the Arizona regional in 3 days.
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*]12 wheel drive
*]6 drive motors
*]4-bar linkage
*]Can hold 12 rings
*]Can grab and move goals
*]16 lbs and 8 traction wheels… we aren’t going anywhere (when scoring)!
*]End wheels lifted for pushing power and better turning radius
*]Moves fast
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Can’t wait to see all the AZ teams at Carl Hayden!
(Comments and/or questions welcome)
GREAT JOB… your robot is the best i hae seen. or design is like the opposite of yours. and great touch releasing the vid 3 days b4 the comp. teams will be afraid to face u guys
I forgot to mention that we can score [even better] on the high goals (although with 12 rings we have to score and then go to the next high goal and cap that one). Also, we can simply knock the standing rings over by driving backwards at them!
By the way, this video was taken during today’s meeting. We used today to create a somewhat feasible autonomous mode that scores rings on the high/low goals and then moves them to our side of the field.
Yea, but it is hardly an effort to make it score on the low goal instead… plus we probably aren’t even going to use that autonomous; there are tons of possibilities that are worth far more
well…I assumed there was a lip when I made the practice goal. It is shown on the field element drawings. Hopefully the field elements where 546 competes will be made that way, if not I expect they’ll come up with another idea!
I believe that is our one problem (that and the battery life issue 10 motors is kinda harsh…). However, we have ways of repositioning the goals with the goal-grabber.