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So, you like wood robots eh?

W9GFOW9GFO Posts: 4,010
edited 2011-04-11 20:33 in Robotics
Here's one that's in my garage right now. It's even got quite a bit of spruce in it!

The entire arm will be going to the FRC Championship in St Louis to replace the other wooden arm that is currently on our competition robot.

Robot mk2-002-2.jpg


Rich H
Mentor, FRC team 1899
Robot mk2-002-2.jpg
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Comments

  • ajwardajward Posts: 1,130
    edited 2011-04-11 15:14
    WAY cool!!! Any chance of a video the arm in action?

    Amanda
  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2011-04-11 15:20
    Wow!!! Wood you look at that! :-)
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2011-04-11 17:33
    Lovin' it, Rich! Yes, please more pics & video!
  • W9GFOW9GFO Posts: 4,010
    edited 2011-04-11 19:21
    Video of the arm and how it's controlled - this is the one that is painted, the arm going to the championship will remain natural as in the first picture above.

    The arm in action;

    A few pictures;

    http://modelstation.smugmug.com/SaintsRobotics/2011-Build-Season/15830617_QRgEg#1186371375_MM8Lj
  • TtailspinTtailspin Posts: 1,326
    edited 2011-04-11 19:23
    Thats cool stuff. thanks for posting
    Is that You in the second vid, with the red Mohawk?

    So what happens in that competition? are all those bots remote controlled?
  • W9GFOW9GFO Posts: 4,010
    edited 2011-04-11 20:33
    No, that's actually me in the first vid with what appears to be a bald spot. I knew the camera added ten pounds but I didn't realize it removed hair!

    The robots are both autonomous and remote controlled. In the second video, the yellow tube was hung entirely in autonomous mode. The robots that are not capable of autonomous operation are motionless for the first 20 seconds of the match.

    The goal is to hang the inflated game pieces in the proper order. The higher they are hung, the more points they are worth. At the end of the match a small autonomous robot (minibot) is deployed onto a pole. You can see in the second video where we tried to deploy but the minibot failed to climb the pole. We now have a much better minibot.

    You can read more about it here;

    http://www.saintsrobotics.com/first/current-competition-logomotion/

    Rich H
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