Today was a good day. After much discussion, we've decided that we will be using a wide chassis for this years drivetrain. Our strongest reason we're going with a wide chassis is intake. Here's a list of the reasons we believe wide is more superior to long.
- Wider intake/ Easier pickup
- High speed stability
- The field is pretty open this year, which leaves room for a wide robot
- staying stable while hanging will be easier. (i.e. Less yaw)
We still have to talk to Art 4, who's in China for work, but if he doesn't have a crazy reason that will make us change our minds, the prints will be at the sheet metal shop Wednesday! So Art, if you're reading this, TEXT and/or EMAIL YOUR DAD PLEASE!
I already have a feeling I will learn more about the process this year, than every before. I sat down today and CADed the drivetrain today with a mentor, and I'm really getting the hang of it! As an offseason/Fall project, my boss, his son, and I are building a 4ft by 4ft CNC Plasma Cutter, we have everything ready, we are just waiting on some waterjetted parts from a buddy, hopefully they'll be in within the week and we can finish it and start making some realllly cool parts! If all goes well, this summer we will use the plasma cutter to teach students sheet metal and cadding design!
Today we attached the intake prototype to the practice bot drivetrain and mounted a motor. We started playing with the heights you'll need to use to properly intake the frisbee, and we discovered two things, either the rollers need to be spring loaded so they move as the frisbee slides into the robot, or the lexan on the scoop needs to move. We haven't figured that out yet, that's Tuesdays task.
Our programming team(Matt Smith) worked on camera tracking with the new stuff that was released this year. He claimed we were having positive results, so all is going well! We also gutted and started to rewire last years practice bot so we can use that as a permanent prototype base. Here's an intake failure video, and the pictures I took today.
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| Matt doing his thing. |
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| Last years competition robots long lost cousin. |
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| Gutted. |
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| Reusing gearboxes! |
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| Mmmm, CAD. |
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| More square than wide. |
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| That's all spanish too me. |
Tomorrow we have off, which I could use to finish my mountains of homework. I though they said senior year was going to be easy?!! Time to get some rest.
-DP
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