Author: Spectrum 3847

A rookie team we are mentoring came to use with some problems with their robot. The drive train wasn't performing liked they wanted and the pneumatic gripper intake wasn't collecting…

This is our intake ready for drawing to be made and sent off for production. This model doesn't show the intake rollers that go over the tube axles or the…

The drive train CAD is nearly complete. We have been referencing a lot of 1114's designs this year and their awesome Solidworks tutorial videos as well. We still have bumper…

We had a long discussion about our scouting and strategy plan for the 2016 season. We are adopting many of the techniques used by 118 The Robonauts as presented by…

We finished the wooden intake today. It has a few geometry errors that we need to fix before going into production on the real one. We also learned how to…

We wired up our wooden chassis today and have it driving around. It's not the best prototype since it is far less rigid then the real robot will be, but…

We are over a third of the way through the season and the Q&A has already led to some big rule updates (a critical field dimension even changed). We want…

We had our design review meeting. Here is a very rough CAD sketch of the current robot plan. It has two folding arms one for breaching and scaling and another…