We built this bot for the FIRST Competition - This will explain a lot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnGfbGzEFrM)
We plan on harvesting balls and using the belts to tranport the balls up to the pistion, after that I hope to pin other bots and launch then in to there trailer. Let me know what you think of our desgin.
What brain does it have? What type of circuit are you using? Will it be able to move in the future as it weaves stuff automaticly? I would put some IR and Sonic sensors on it so it could move around the house while it makes stuff.
It looks like its for the FIRST competitition, he is doing the same idea as numerous schools around us. Basically the two PVCS (connected via big rubberbands), one has an axle (sort of like a chain drive). And each pvc has a bunch of prongs on it. Now when these pvcs rotate, it picks up the balls, and leaves them in its container.
Very effecient design, which is why it is used often, however, our bot will kick the crap outta any bot that uses this design
To be honest, I have no idea what the hell this thing does! Seriously, who does a post with absolutly no info included? Did they have no keyboard? The videos were no help -an over-produced intro, over-used techno background with no narration with most of this video showing people just thowing some kinda ball into the thing. What do you want from me?
We do bitch about people not posting videos with their robots… At least they got that part right.
I ask the webmaster not to delete this robot. Let it stay as an example to refer to in the future. Whenever we need to point out how not to post a bot.
Oh KL7JLM: you can update this page any time you want and make all of us seem like idiots to the visitors of the future!
See what happen was when i posted it the first time it did not go through and I was tried so i just put a pic and some vids (The frirst time I had it all detailed). Since then i have not had time to come back to it, as of right now we are preparing for the competion. As I type this right now I an making my self later and later for pratice…
did anyone else notice the foot/leg on the right bottom of the photo. I think what we are looking at is the FIRST death by robot. Most likely the person got caught up in the strings and somehow was choked…the people by the machine were trying to shut it off before it got to anyone else…
…of course maybe it just makes some really cool wool hats for the winter…I dunno…
