Driven Robotics Team 2158 2007 Vex Robot

[atcpenguin]

sweet! are you guys competing this year?

[Bizorke]

Nice.

[jtman10295]

im in team 11 go MORT

[Captaintsuchi]

lol i was there at us first watching that and competing in it but i was on a different team for my high school but i quit like a year later cause i was getting busy and other shite

[happygamestvfun1]

Do i need an E-CAD or M-CAD software to make one? And do i need to write a driver?

[GREVAN101089]

como se llama ese tipo de rstructura, que tiene muchos ollos

[Firepalm1234]

@GREVAN101089 It is called an "Omni-drive" or a "Holonomic Drive". If you're referring to the front intake wheels, that has no name...

[bestamerica]

how come america never make it VEX,,,

why VEX make in asia for america

[a2304]

Have you used the intake rollers available on the vex website? I was wondering how they compare to the one's you built.

[Firepalm1234]

Well, the diameter on the intake rollers they sold were too small to get the height we needed. I've seen them used effectively, but they need a lot of pressure to make them effective since the rubber is really stiff. Best for smaller diameter objects. We would have used tread for this application but it was too front heavy.

[3dutz]

cool

[penguinfrk]

What is the configuration of your wheels on this? We can't seem to make a bot with holonomic drive while still having a roller like that.

[Firepalm1234]

Don't! lol Basically, this robot had all the drive wheels in the back 60% of the robot. The four omnis are at the corners of the rectangle. The front is supported by a caster between the rollers. With an omni drive, you need equal pressure on all the wheels or it simply won't work right. We had serious drive problems with this one...So I'd reccomend either counterbalancing the front, or just deal with a smaller intake width between the omni wheels. Good luck!

[penguinfrk]

Thanks, we decided to switch to a 5-wheel holonomic simply because it provided us with one extra motor (two sets of wheels on the side are essentially tank drive). We trashed our intake system.

[NotFunnyVids]

@Firepalm1234

Awesome looking robot. Yours would have killed mine if it was all about looks. BUT!.. when it comes to performance my robot would destroy yours.

[yankeefan610]

Awsome, however we students at Benson High school have come up with some pretty awsome things ourselves.

[AnimeDiskoball]

way more complicated then it needs to be

[johndeerecat12]

Thats sick

[Guapoguy1994]

the bucket was free swinging from the arm, how they got it to tke the tolerance of holding all the balls until it got close enough to the goal is a mystery to me. its great robot, i right now in my robotics club am working on a helicopter, and i hope to get it off the ground a little. after i hopefully get that i will start working on the steering mechanism

[magemager0]

its like a giant erector set..

[brand1stylistic]

hope to see you guys in the 09-10 season

[myooyoke]

lol ye I just wanted to know how you guys made the bucket free swinging and what did u guys do to make the arm move, like how did u guys attach the gears and what powers the arm and where

im on my school robotics team and we have similar issues so it would be great if i knew

Thanks a bunch

[Firepalm1234]

I don't know what to tell you man, mechanical fixes are extremely case sensitive. This robot took like 50 bajillion design iterations before we were satisfied with it, making it really, really complicated. A free spinning axle is one that goes through smooth bearings so nothing stops it from turning. A gear has holes in it that you can put bolts through to attatch metal to it. Without being there, I can't really help you. BTW, are you guys doing FTC or VRC?

[myooyoke]

hey dude

really amazing arm

how did u make the bucket pivot from the arm?

[Firepalm1234]

I'm not entirely sure I understand the question, but basically the arm crawls around the two large gears, fixed solidly to the uprights, with two smaller gears. The bucket is free swinging...

[swbluto]

That's kind of cool. If a robot could be made to pick up any platonic solid then, possibly, gathering of given materials in a location could be automated given the retrieval process seems so simple.

[jkqman]

wut school wus this?

[Firepalm1234]

we are community based.

[halo2kill]

haha i remember your team from the ct championchips, team 90, robo warriors

[dolphinkid911]

holy ****

[Firepalm1234]

Check out the video of this year's robot too! It competes quite a bit better than this one did...

[Firepalm1234]

FTC 6 The Driven Nuts

[meatsorcerer]

dude you guys have to come to my house... there is tennis balls eveeery weeree

[expeditionsea]

Our school was the first to hand driven nuts a NON-WIN (we tied) at the regional in manchester a month ago. it was fun, but you guys are definitely NUTS! great job and congratulations!

[theshadowmoose]

lolz, nice robot, i have to say that you must be the smartest people to ever live!...good job anyways

[Fenix90]

nice we used tank tank treds and managed 8 balls at once :-P

[WithoutCoquettish]

A good work very impressive

[ilikepie55901]

whats the music name?

[Firepalm1234]

Kalan Nege by Issa Bagayogo

[ilikepie55901]

thanx i like this alot for some reason

[chillz31]

lol i remember beating you at a skirmish and at new jersey this year...seems like you guys declined from last year

[Firepalm1234]

We never competed in New Jersey. You're confusing us with our sister team, the DRIVEN Bolts, who just actually won as alliance captain and took the Inspire award in the New England Regionals this week...needless to say they may have improved their robot from the time you beat them...

[chillz31]

yea your robot changed and i was pleseantly surprised with it...it was a very nice idea...you guys just have to work on the stability of putting your rings on...we had a strategy to nock away the post when you put it on and it worked for the first round in the play-offs but our robot died in the second round and idk what happend 3rd

[Chimaira1023]

Great robot, was this design in Atlanta? I rememer seeing the name, but I don't remember this design. I love the idea though.

[Firepalm1234]

We were there.

[Yourmom1926]

i would love to have that robot if I worked an a tenis court or indoor basball place.

really nice robot

[paxtonliberto]

i dont see how you did that good, its a good idea and the way you got the balls onto the robot was genious, but couldnt the other robots just push you around wherever they wanted?

and my friend from my schools program won most innovative in his regionals challenge =]

and this year we brought home second place, but we had the best robot, just no good help, the teammates were terrible this year

[Firepalm1234]

what team?

[Firepalm1234]

because, I'd love to have your teammates hear you said that

[njrebel23]

tres cool! I actually liked the music-- what was it? We're hoping to put together a VEX program @ our own school and can perhaps join in on some of the fun.

[Jcla22]

that is actually brilliant.

[ClassicPo0h]

amazing

[deadlyfalcon89]

crazy... holo's are a pain in the ass to drive initially but with practice they are AMAZING. kudos.

[xDevix]

Hey! I remember you! was there in atlanta! I was a driver on team 3368!

[xDevix]

Wow, I sound so enthusiastic. xD

[RocketSpeed1]

Nice bot my team was so close to going to Atlanta but while we were competing another bot drove up under ours. So sad.

[octanetripledax]

what kind of horrible music was that?

[jam1733]

totaly cool

[b1gspence]

wow awesome vex robot

[DeagleBeagle]

lol, i saw urs, at atlanta, our team was 3617{metalgear}.

[Overyourhead]

AWESOME ROBOT!

Did you guys make it to Atlanta?

[Firepalm1234]

yep. got in on the lottery though. close business. we got into the elimination rounds with overdrive and driven bolts.

[brwncandoevrything]

I saw this in Atlanta also, I was from team 3486. Nice video, what's the name of the song?

[Firepalm1234]

I don't remember your robot, but I didn't get out from the pits much to see the matches. The name of the song is Kalan Nege by Issa Bagayogo. Not really what you'd expect for a robotics movie, but he's sort of modern.

[jetpilot5]

thats awesome, i love the sweepers

check out my science olympiad bot vid :)

[Mattersmatter]

I love the polydirectional oblique drive system. Check out our record setting robot for the 2007 World Competition. team 3399 from TX.

[fredliu168]

sick design.

Too bad we never faced in Penn

Fred

3652 FLAME