Robotics Competition *56k Death*

[WenULiVeUdiE]

Over the past two days my high school robotics team has been competing in the F.I.R.S.T. Mid-Atlantic Regional, and I brought my camera. We got 3rd place overall and won Best Animation. There were 53 teams competing. 2 from Brazil, 1 Puerto Rico, the rest from NJ, NY, and PA.

So why not share the pics!?


Our turrest assembly


Chassis


Our robot lifting the Tetra. It lifts them 11ft.


Our robot- Middle, 2nd from the left. Holding the red tetra.


Electrical System. Well part of it anyway.


Another Chassis Shot


Drivetrain! The pic is sideways.


Semi-Final Match. We werent in this one.


For more pics, click here.

We had one of the most solid/well built robots there. Many other teams were using pneumatics, which was a bad choice. But this was mostly due to pneumatics being cheaper than some of the electrical equitment.

Sorry for the huge pics. I was using the wrong url from Imageshack.

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[stondroopy]

geez i wish i was smart enough to build something like that. Pretty cool stuff

[ojhspyro89]

Geeze i wish i had the parts to build something like that

[slade]

holy crap!! thats some really nice work. it looks... expensive thats REALLY well made, what do you have for tools at your school??

im on my school's robotics team but we're competing in the battlebots competition in florida. i took a video of our bot but my camera really REALLY sucks ill post the video and pics after the competition, i dont want anyone on here who is in the competition to see our bot before it . just wondering though, are you anyone else on AO going to the battlebots competition?

[WenULiVeUdiE]

Thanks for all the comments. It means alot to me after everything I/we put into it.

It is expensive, extremely expensive. Estimated value of $12,000. If I included labor, well over $20,000. Our robot from 03 is worth well over $25,000. This is due to 40% of the material used was titanium.

Much of the actual metal work was done by our machinist. The boom/arm is extruded alum., the rest is billet. The white you see is Teflon or possibly delrin. The entire turret assembly spins on it. We have Fisher price motors with a custom transmission spnning the turret. The assembly rests on the teflon so it does not overstress the subframe.

Our sub frame used to be all 80/20, a very popular choice among FIRST teams. But due to the weight problems we had, we replaced it with 1 inch sqaure alum. tubing found at Lowes.